FORMS Summit Toronto
FORMS Summit invites community leaders, professional and artists from Toronto, Amsterdam and New York City in fields spanning architecture, urban design, technology and new media art to discuss their experience working beyond traditional boundaries to explore new ideas and solve complex issues. With a focus on design, civic participation and policy, FORMS Summit, welcomes conversations around accessibility to space and displacement, the impact of convergence on the future of work and creativity, the shifting role of public art and public space as well as an introduction to human experience design and biomimicry.
Participants will include:
Karen Wong New Museum, NYC
Alex Josephson Partisans
lana Altman The Artful City
Shawn Micallef Spacing Magazine
Klasien van de Zandschulp Lava Lab, Amsterdam
Dr. Irwin Adam Future Food Studio
Adil Dhalla Centre for Social Innovation
Howard Tam Think Fresh Group
Alexis Kane Speer The STEPS Initiative
Brandon Vickerd York University
Jamie Miller Biomimicry Frontier
Nils van Beek TAAK Amsterdam
Michelle Senayah The Laneway Project
Jordan Mandel University of Waterloo
Markus Heckmann Derivative/Touch Designer
Kate Hartman OCADU
Leonieke Verhoog VPRO Medialab, Amsterdam
and more.
With a focus on design, civic participation and policy, FORMS Summit welcomes conversations around accessibility to space and displacement, the impact of convergence on the future of work and creativity, the shifting role of public art and public space as well as an introduction to human experience design and biomimicry. Aiming to unpack a common language around sustainable thinking and practice, the summit explores what this all means in an urban context and why we need more of it.
See more about PROGRAMMING here
Participants - http://bit.ly/2bj0iyW
Talk Descriptions - bit.ly/2bIHFF5
TICKETS: Whether you are only interested in the summit or would like to check out some of our evening music programming as well, you can find all the ticket options here
