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Join us for the final debate in the New Discourses series. On Wednesday February 20, starting at 7:30pm Chris Schafer and Alistair Newton (con block) will join Niomi Cherney and Norm Jezioranski (pro block) in unpacking the statement: “Be it resolved Canadians are committed to building a just society.” Here is one man’s vision: “It […]
Winner of the the Toronto Design Offsite Festival’s Viewers’ Choice Award Department of Unusual Certainties, working in cooperation with Thea Jones, have won big. Their installation, All the parties you’ve never been invited to… (ATP…) , has won the Viewers’ Choice Award for Best Event at the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. ATP…, framed the dance floor, of the […]
Department of Unusual Certainties & Thea Jones invite you to… ALL OF THE PARTIES YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN INVITED TO BEFORE Department of Unusual Certainties would like to invite you to the Love Design Party January 26th, 10pm at the Gladstone Hotel, where they will be presenting their video installation All of the parties you have never […]
The third instalment of the New Discourses for a Tired Century debate series is on Monday January 21, 7:30pm @ the Gladstone Hotel. Marcin Kedzior and Thomas Provost (for the resolution) will meet Kristina Ljubanovic and Sabrina Dominguez (against the resolution) in consideration of this month’s resolution: “Be it resolved, we can no longer conceive of the city as a whole.” New […]
NEW DISCOURSES FOR A TIRED CENTURY: A debate series 7:30 PM November 19th at the Gladstone Hotel. Over the next 5 months The Department of Unusual Certainties is hosting the debate series New Discourses for a Tired Century at the Gladstone Hotel. Over the course of this series 16 illuminated voices, coming from a range […]
Department of Unusual Certainties presents NEW DISCOURSES FOR A TIRED CENTURY: a debate series October 23rd, at the Gladstone Hotel. Is the future hopeless?… Is the democratic process in Canada in crisis?… Can we understand the city as whole?… Are Canadians committed to building a just society?… Over the next 5 months The Department of […]
Another Way to Eat is one of ten proposals for the future of transportation presented at MOVE: Transportation Expo. MOVE is hosted by Evergreen at the Brickworks and was developed in collaboration with the Institute without Boundaries. Each of the proposals is rooted in ideas first articulated at a charrette in the winter; with those working groups, […]
(photo credit: Aliya Tejani) DoUC has a new mailing address: Department of Unusual Certainties 1214 Queen Street West Suite 210 Toronto, ON M6J 1J6 We’ve moved into Suite 210 at the Gladstone Hotel for the next six months.During our time here we will be working with the Gladstone’s Director of Exhibitions, Noa Bronstein, to organize a series of […]
Art of the Danforth Innovators’ Fair: A series of programless pavilions part of Art of the Danforth festival May 20 to June 10 East Lynn Park (Woodbine & Danforth, Toronto) Join us Sunday May 20th at Dusk in East Lynn for the opening of the Innovators’ Fair.
Daragh Sankey’s series of shorts, In Store: Art and Crisis in Windsor, continues with an exploration of DoUC’s contribution Storefront Success Stories. The In Store series documents the Storefront Residency for Social Innovation that Broken City Lab hosted during the summer of 2010. Windsor Redux – Tip Sheets and Speed Dates Speed Dating for Storeowners Storefront Success Stories in Windsor
DoUC is proud to be part of the Jubilee show currently on at the Harbourfront Centre, celebrating Her Royal Majesty’s Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee. DoUC are not Monarchists but are instead Monarchy opportunists, and what better way to celebrate this ideology then by mapping the historic travels of The Queen. Land, Air, and Sea […]
On December 8th, 2011 Broken City Lab’s Justin A. Langlois and Michelle Soulliere joined Department of Unusual Certainties at the Design Exchange to discuss to discuss the city as a space for creative intervention. Here is a recording of that conversation: DoUC in Conversation with BCL
November 30, 2011 by christopherpandolfi
Department of Unusual Certainties in conversation with Broken City Lab…two practices, one love. A roving night of dialogue focusing on the city as a workplace. When: December 8th 2011 6:30-7:30pm Where: The Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street, Toronto. This is event is pay-what-you-can. Drinks will be served. This is the third instalment of the Design […]
February 17, 2013 by srabyniuk
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