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Robotic automation has changed virtually every industry. Their ubiquity has moved from the assembly line to the house, from multi-axis manipulator …

When you hear words like “blockchain” do you immediately conjure up images of Minecraft, that video game your 14-year-old son plays all day? Or when …

Ask a designer what the role of a designer is, and you will get as diverse a spectrum of answers as you will designers. Is it one of creative …

When small and midsized design firms try to strengthen their firms, they tend to fixate on the “Practice of Design”: doing better work. However, the work itself isn’t the problem. Getting stronger requires a shift of …

“As the nature of designing and making physical objects – particularly products for workplaces – continues to evolve, the way we approach that work …

Designers have been drafting design manifestos (DM) for over a hundred years with varying degrees of success and fidelity in their professional practices. According to author Alexandra Franzen, a DM is “A written …

Anyone who has spent a considerable amount of time in Toronto has on some level developed a relationship with public transit. But then there are those who have spent a really significant amount of time in the city, …

There was a time in the mid- to late-20th century when arts critics held serious power in swaying the consumption habits of the general public. Film …

There is ‘saying,’ and there is ‘doing.’ Both are important, and in many cases one can’t happen without the other. But eventually the latter must happen, otherwise the former has been abandoned and rendered meaningless.

Architects and interior designers specify thousands of architectural and interior products, building materials and related goods, representing …

“What is Canadian architecture? The question has often been posed, with no single satisfactory response. Understandably so, as Canada is not only vast but geographically and climatically diverse across its provinces and …

Although we have been in the COVID trenches for what seems like an incessantly long period of time, there now appears to be light at the end of this tunnel. With vaccination rates on a speedy incline and phased …

“Architecture is not the result of finance capitalism but rather is finance capitalism” / “Just as architecture has helped produce finance …

From their inception, both architecture and filmmaking have been forms of representational art. The closer one looks at these respective disciplines, the more their overlapping attributes become glaringly obvious. Both …

With a new United States president in the White House already signalling a recommitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, environmental issues are encouragingly back to the top of many design and manufacturing agendas.

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“When you start to deconstruct or question design, all sorts of questions emerge: How does design affect our behaviour, our use of resources, our …

What role does film play in shaping experimentation in architecture? How can film be used to document and archive different projects in the context …

Design is interdisciplinary by nature, therefore it is no surprise that design education is similar and provides a variety of platforms for students to learn different knowledge and skills from, and then apply those …

The COVID-19 crisis has forced corporate culture to radically adjust ways of working.

The question facing us now is what will happen when the …

Because of wide-ranging governmental policies created to enforce social distancing measures in efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, some of the …

Interior design is a profession based on ideas meant to eliminate barriers between ourselves and our built environment, so it is wonderfully …