Prepare yourself for Future Ruins an evening of short films and videos exploring the theme culture of landscape from disparate perspectives, with real and imagined architectures, traumatic collisions of past and future, all the while pondering our moment of crisis in the newly minted era of the Anthropocene.

Come and celebrate on Earth Day!

In partnership with Pleasure Dome, curated by Iris Fraser-Gudrunas, Eli Horwatt and Melanie Wilmink

$8 for Members / $5 for Students on Student Days

Future Ruins is part of the Gladstone Hotels 3rd annual Grow Op exhibition greets spring with open arms fromApril 23rd to 26th, 2015. Curated by Victoria Taylor and Graham Teeple with Britt Welter-Nolan, this four-day exhibition celebrates innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art, and place-making under this years theme, the culture of landscape.

Grow Op 2015 facilitates a multi-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices. One of the most intriguing annual exhibitions in Toronto, Grow Op encourages an array of perspectives and dialogues surrounding landscape and place. It challenges our understanding of nature and the built environment around us.

How can landscape architecture be a driving force in the creation of sustainable cities? How can design not only enhance the lived experiences of citizens and communities, but also improve urban infrastructure and functionality? What does a contemporary culture of landscape in relation to our cities look like? What does it sound like? Feel like? These questions are imbued in the multitude of jury selected artworks, accompanying talks, tours, parties and even a fair of local organizations focused on urban agriculture at Grow Op Gets Dirtier.