Gehl
Gehl is a networked urban strategy and design consultancy, with offices in Copenhagen, New York, and San Francisco, offering expertise in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and city planning. Their approach is iterative and holistic, making cities for people and the planet using life-centered data, strategy, and design. They begin by working to […]
The Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
The DLSPH is an internationally recognized community of scientists, teachers, students, practitioners, policy makers and citizens, creating new knowledge, educating change makers, advancing practice and guiding the way to better, more equitable outcomes in population health and health systems – locally, nationally and globally.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and HeART Lab
CAMH (the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world’s leading research centres in its field. This partnership with The Bentway reflects our vision of health redefined and dedication to patient, family and community well-being. For more information about CAMH, please visit.www.camh.ca HeART Lab at CAMH works […]
Ha/f Climate Design
Ha/f Climate Design is led by Kelly Alvarez Doran, who founded the Half Research Studio at the University of Toronto to catalyze conversations around embodied carbon and life cycle impacts of buildings in Canada.
Third Party Public
Third Party Public specializes in making large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects constructive and manageable. Established in 2004 under Swerhun Inc., the team works exclusively for governments, public agencies, and occasionally non-profits working to serve public interests. Third Party Public is advising and supporting the Bentway-led public and stakeholder consultation process that will inform the Under Gardiner Public […]
Transsolar KlimaEngineering
Transsolar KlimaEngineering is a diverse team of engineers focused on creating climate-responsive built environments. In partnership with the world’s leading architects, Transsolar’s unique approach has led to numerous breakthrough projects including the most energy-efficient office tower in North America. Transsolar has been operating for more than 25 years with offices in Stuttgart, Munich, Paris, and New […]
Frontier
Frontier designs big stories — brave, imaginative, and guiding stories — that help organizations thrive. Its Purpose Design methodology connects brand strategy with business strategy. Frontier works on projects in branding, storytelling, strategy, digital design, and team engagement.
Two Row Architect
Established in 1992, Two Row Architect is a 100% native-owned and operated firm from the Six Nations reserve in southern Ontario. Two Row Architect focuses on guiding the realignment of mainstream ways of thinking on their journey towards Indigenous ways of knowing, being, design and architecture. Their ultimate goal is to promote architecture that has a positive […]
PUBLIC WORK
PUBLIC WORK is an urban design and landscape architecture studio focused on the intelligent evolution of the contemporary city. The studio aims to produce transformative works that invigorate the public realm, optimize and enhance the performance of urban and natural systems, and support public life by adding new layers of experience to the city.
muf architecture/art
muf is an internationally recognized practice whose work is a collaboration between art and architecture – simultaneously pragmatic and endlessly ambitious. As a studio, muf’s approach is open-ended, process driven and experimental – unafraid to challenge any client who thinks design is done and dusted early on in a project. Every project contains an element […]
Bata Shoe Museum
Bata Shoe Museum is North America’s only museum dedicated to exploring the history and cultural significance of footwear. Regularly displaying over a thousand shoes, chosen from a collection of nearly 15,000 artifacts that date back more than 4,500 years, the BSM always has something new to experience. Currently on view: Dressed to Impress: Footwear and Consumerism in the 1980s, In Bloom: […]
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a media artist who resides in Montreal and works at the intersection of architecture and performance art. As audiences interact with his work, their participation is recorded and added to a collection that plays back in real-time, creating a collective portrait of a community. Pulse Topology is the culmination of his series […]
Anne Bourne
Sound field composer/artist Anne Bourne (Tkaronto) creates emergent streams of microtonal cello, piano, field recordings and text. Experienced in a diverse community of international performance and recording artists, in dance, film, songs, Anne is alumna of the sangre de cristo mountain listening retreats, a sonics improviser with composer Pauline Oliveros. On faculty at the Center […]
Striped Canary
Stephen B. Nguyen (born Little Falls, MN, 1976) and Wade Kavanaugh (born Portland, ME, 1979) have collaborated since 2005. They have created dozens of site-specific installations using paper and wood as their primary media. Their work has been commissioned by international galleries and museums such as Mass MoCA in the US and the Museum Rijswijk […]
Daniella Morrone
Daniella is a recent alum from the Astronomy & Physics Bachelor’s Program at the University of Toronto. Now working in the field of astronomy outreach, Daniella is passionate about making astronomy accessible to everyone. As an Education Specialist at Discover the Universe and the coordinator of the Westar Program at the Canadian Astronomical Society, Daniella […]
Eesha Das Gupta
Eesha is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. She makes computer models of how Sun-like stars rotate and how stars much heavier than the Sun in companionship with another star interact with their companion. Eesha is from India but received her undergraduate degree in physics from Drexel University, Philadelphia. She […]
Adaeze Ibik
Adaeze Ibik is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. She is working on very bright explosions in the universe, specifically fast radio bursts and luminous supernovae. She obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Physics from the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, Nigeria before being awarded a scholarship by the University […]
Laurie Rousseau-Nepton
Laurie Rousseau-Nepton is a new faculty member at the University of Toronto and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. She has six years of experience working as a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory supporting various instruments including wide-field cameras, high-resolution spectrographs, and Fourier Transform Spectro-imager. She received her diploma from Université Laval by […]
Colleen McCarten
Colleen McCarten is a material-based visual artist and educator residing in Toronto. She studied Textiles at OCAD University, Fashion Design at George Brown College, and Landscape Design at Niagara College. McCarten has taught textile programs through the Toronto School of Art, Toronto District School Board, The City of Oshawa, CAMH, and the Design Exchange. She […]
Carlos Portillo
Carlos Portillo is a Mexican-born multidisciplinary designer whose interests are rooted in urban design, architecture and landscape architecture. He joined CCxA (Claude Cormier et Associés) in 2018 where he has worked on the design of large high profile public installations and parks including The Ring in Montreal and Love Park in Toronto. Currently he is […]
Yi Zhou
Yi Zhou is a Chinese-born multidisciplinary designer interested in leveraging the intersection of architecture, ecology and new media to create memorable connections between people and place. Her design approach is driven by a strong conceptual foundation, tapping into the deeply embedded ecological, historical, and cultural signifiers of place. She is currently an Associate Landscape Architect […]
The Synthetic Collective
The Synthetic Collective is an interdisciplinary collaboration between visual artists, humanists, and scientists that focuses on plastic pollution in the Great Lakes Region. Crucial to their research methodology is the driving principle that artists and scientists conduct research together, from the outset of the inquiry, and said research should not do further environmental harm. The […]
Evergreen Brick Works
Evergreen is a national non-profit transforming public spaces in our cities to build a healthier future for people and our planet. Evergreen Brick Works, located in Toronto’s ravine system, is a year-round destination where the world comes to experience sustainability in action. Once an industrial brick factory, it is an internationally renowned showcase of green design, an award-winning public space […]
Centre for Sustainable Curating
The Centre for Sustainable Curating supports research, exhibitions, visual/digital production, and pedagogy focused on environmental and social justice. Located in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, the CSC encourages research into waste, pollution, and climate crisis, and the development of exhibitions and artworks with low carbon footprints.