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Art of the Danforth Innovators’ Fair: A series of Programless Pavilions opened May 20, 2012 as Department of Unusual Certainties’ contribution to Art of the Danforth. DoUC inserted three sculptural forms into East Lynn Park constituting the Innovators’ Fair. DoUC intends to publish a small pamphlet for the project later in the Fall.
September 27, 2011 by christopherpandolfi
SAUGA 2030 is an iPhone app and installation that looks at a future Mississauga and its public spaces in the year 2030. It debuted at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in the summer of 2011 as a part of the Meet Us On the Commons show. Through demographic and statistical projections, science fiction coppings, and […]
September 22, 2011 by christopherpandolfi
Spaces of Negotiation is a sculptural installation that teases apart the complexity of a current labour dispute in Hamilton, ON. One year ago DoUC started a research project about Hamilton focused by a broad question about the use of ‘creative economy’ rhetoric to negate the city’s strong industrial economy. Two months into that project US Steel locked […]
July 7, 2011 by christopherpandolfi
The summer 2011 edition of Harbourfront Centre’s Architecture Room is entitled New City Landscape and features the works of Department of Unusual Certainties, Khoury Levit Fong, David Lieberman, and Jason Van Horne. New City Landscape aims to explore the new role of landscape in urban design thinking – how landscape as a conceptual tool and […]
April 7, 2011 by christopherpandolfi
If you happen to be in Chicago on April 9th Soiled Magazine will be hosting an event around their inaugural issue Groundscrapers, which features DoUC’s continued work around our favourite pollinators. You can find out more about the event here UPDATE: The Soiled Launch party was had and by all accounts it was a great […]
March 16, 2011 by christopherpandolfi
Chicago’s Empty Necklace At the end of the 19th century plans were made to connect 7 major parks in Chicago with a network of 26 miles of boulevards. The boulevards and parks would wrap around the city creating a so-called Emerald Necklace. The plan was largely successful and is still visible from satellite photos today. […]
January 7, 2011 by christopherpandolfi
Lake Ontario City Prologue Shortly after the enviro-economic double meltdown of 2012 an emergency meeting was held at an undisclosed location somewhere at the bottom of Lake Ontario. The meeting, affectionately dubbed by the press years later as “lacus mos servo” (the lake will serve), was attended by various government officials from both Canada and […]
December 9, 2010 by christopherpandolfi
The following project was a collaboration between DoUC and Samo Pedersen(NoMadSpaceLab) for the Solar Park South competition held this summer in Calabria. The competition called for a strategic plan for the re-use of an about-to-be-decomissioned highway. Botanical Highway The Botanical Highway is a response to societies changing attitudes towards the way we understand and view […]
November 21, 2010 by christopherpandolfi
DoUC recently contributed to the John Street Ideas Competition held by the Toronto Entertainment District BIA with our submission entitled StairSpace. The competition called for a new public space concept as the centre point of what has been dubbed a major cultural axis in the city – John Street. The current space is bland and […]
August 4, 2010 by christopherpandolfi
…..and the Plug-In Common The Long Island Rail Road is the busiest commuter rail network in North America. It serves over 81 million passengers each year.Despite this, most of Long Island is suburban. Shopping malls and cars are the preferred choice. Downtowns and the areas around train stations are neglected. The Long Island Index estimates that […]
July 29, 2010 by christopherpandolfi
Working with honorary Danish DoUC affiliate Samo Pedersen, the Department put forth a proposal for UNESCO’s Delta City of the Future Competition, choosing the fabled city of Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile River Delta as its test site, for no better reason than it is a fabled city at the mouth of a […]
June 2, 2010 by christopherpandolfi
Our observations suggest strongly that open places intended as public squares should be very small. – Christopher Alexander The attraction of urban life is in being able to obtain a level of convenience and comfort similar to inside a room even while outside. – Atelier Bow-Wow The Virtue of Small Public Places In the classic […]
May 16, 2010 by christopherpandolfi
Preservation Hole was DoUC’s submission to the Mine the Gap competition held by the Chicago Architectural Club. The brief of the competition asked competitors to think of a new use for a giant gaping hole in the middle of the city – the beginnings of a shelved project to build the Calatrava-designed Spire Tower. The […]
March 31, 2010 by christopherpandolfi
Department of Unusual Certainties together with Gil Meslin produced a public space concept for the Due per Cinque competition in Milan, Italy. The competition asks designers to conceive of a public space and public function that can be inserted into the space of a parking spot. DoUC proposed the use of a scaffolding tower to […]
February 5, 2010 by christopherpandolfi
The Continuous (Table) Monument is a never-ending table. It stretches from countryside to city to countryside without a beginning or an end. It weaves itself through the urban fabric of our cities, overcoming all obstacles it encounters. It climbs up buildings, breaks through walls, arches over roads, and squeezes through alleyways. Nothing can halt its […]
December 28, 2009 by christopherpandolfi
2 Proposals for the Bat Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism ‘Strange(r) Encounters in Bat Yam’ is a pair of proposals for community infrastructural interventions that would take place during the Bat Yam Biennale of Urbanism, in Bat Yam, Israel. A common thread in both of the proposed projects is the attempt to stimulate engagement between […]
July 3, 2012 by srabyniuk
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