Design Exchange Student Competition

Thursday, December 14, 2017 - 4:45pm

We hope that you will share this competition with your students, it is an excellent opportunity for them to think practically in their field, meet experts in their field, exposure, experience for their CVs, and the winning cash awards AND they can submit projects that were made for course-assignments!

 

About Connect: ONTRACK

 

This year, students studying in all design disciplines are invited to submit proposals that imagine barrier-free features for public transportation in Ontario that are accessible to the greatest number of individuals.

 

Participation is open to all currently enrolled students studying design (including, but not limited to: industrial, architecture, graphic, digital, interior, and landscape) at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Ontario in a college or university program.

 

The overall prize is $2K, and 12 additional prizes from $1.5K (4), $1K (4), and $500 (4). These winners will also have their work exhibited at Design Exchange and honoured at an Awards Ceremony at DX. Students can submit individually or as a group (in which case cash prizes are divided equally). It is free to submit

Attached is the competition brief, which we hope you will share with your students. If you or your students have any questions please contact Sophie Quick at sophie@dx.org.

 

EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology

EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology
Thursday, September 28, 2017 - 9:00pm to Sunday, October 8, 2017 - 6:00pm

Imagine this — a 150,000-square-foot abandoned factory transformed into an ultramodern world where design, innovation and technology are the solutions to today’s grand challenges.

Welcome to the Festival of the Future. From September 28 to October 8 2017, step inside a world where crickets can combat global hunger, medical supplies are 3D-printed in outer space, drones deliver blood to remote communities, and shipping containers are the future of farming.

Discover projects that make a difference. A Design Exchange production, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), this 360° experience presents an “edit” of the undertakings and projects that are making the world a better place, for all people.

Learn how to design the future. Through an array of participatory experiences, talks, installations, and workshops, discover how you, too, can design the future.

Come see Mickey Mouse's Home of the Future! 
This summer OCAD U students had the chance to collaborate with Disney and EDIT in a design competition for Mickey Mouse's Home of the Future, which envisions a not-so-distant future that focuses on a contemporary and sustainable way of living. Students were asked to consider sustainable solutions for interior and industrial design while communicating Mickey Mouse's personality. 

The competition included two sectors: interior design and industrial design. The interior design challenge called on participants to create a living room, kitchen and bedroom from existing sustainable products, using a 640 ft. shipping container from Giant Containers. The industrial design component focused on the design of a brand-new interior product, based on the principles of sustainability and Disney Creative.

Come see Mickey's Murphy bed, designed by Rachel McCormick and Aira Harutyunyan (Industrial Design sector) and Sebastian Ayala's Interior Design sector winning entry inspired by Steamboat Willy!

Mickey Mouse's Home of the Future is presented by Design Exchange in partnership with Mickey Mouse and the Walt Disney Company of Canada, and produced by Giant Containers. Partners: OCAD University and Giant Containers. 

Venue & Address: 
East Harbour (formerly Unilever Soap Factory), 21 Don Roadway, Toronto, ON
Website: 
http://editdx.org
Email: 
inquiries@dx.org
Cost: 
Single Day Pass: $15; Multi-Day Pass: $39 (plus applicable taxes & service fees)
Mickey Mouse's Home of the Future

OCAD U congratulates winners of Mickey Mouse’s Home of the Future Design Challenge

Rachel McCormick and Aira Harutyunyan
Monday, August 21, 2017 - 2:45pm

This summer, OCAD University students were invited to reimagine the home of Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse's Home of the Future envisions a not-so-distant future that focuses on a contemporary and sustainable way of living. Students were asked to consider sustainable solutions for interior and industrial design while communicating Mickey Mouse's personality. 

Presented by Design Exchange (DX), in partnership with Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Company Canada and produced by Giant Containers, the contest offered students a chance to collaborate with Disney at EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology, this fall.

The competition included two sectors: interior design and industrial design. The interior design challenge called on participants to create a living room, kitchen and bedroom from existing sustainable products, using a 640 ft. shipping container from Giant Containers. The industrial design component focused on the design of a brand-new interior product, based on the principles of sustainability and Disney Creative.

Congratulations to the winners:

Industrial design: Rachel McCormick and Aira Harutyunyan 

Design: Mickey's Murphy bed

Interior design: Sebastian Ayala

Design: Inspired by Steamboat Willy

Entries were evaluated by the following panel of judges: Shauna Levy (President & CEO, Design Exchange), Dr. Sara Diamond (President and Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University), Jana Macalik (Associate Dean, Faculty of Design,OCAD University), Janice Lau-Pearson (Senior Manager, Franchise, Disney Consumer Products Canada), Daniel Kroft (Vice President, Giant Containers), Gordon Kroft (President & CEO, Giant Containers) and John Tong (Founding Principal and Executive Creative Director, tongtong).

The winning submission will be fabricated by Giant Containers and exhibited in Mickey Mouse's Home of the Future at EDIT in Toronto (September 28 to October 8, 2017), a 10-day international design festival that explores how design, innovation and technology can address today's global issues and envision a world where all people prosper.

 

Poster: 
Sebastian Ayala

ONSITE/onward: Art/Design and Public Spaces Panel Talk

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 10:30pm to Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 12:00am

What role does public art and design play in our everyday urban experience? Join us for a conversation on art/design and public spaces, presented by Onsite Gallery in partnership with Design Exchange.

Featuring:

Nicole Beno (graphic designer and visual artist)
Karen Carter (Executive Director of the Myseum of Toronto)
Shawn Micallef (author and weekly columnist at the Toronto Star)
Ala Roushan (OCAD U Assistant Professor, Faculty of Design)
with Nina Boccia as moderator (Director of Programs at Design Exchange)

Tuesday, April 5, 6:30 p.m.
100 McCaul St.
Auditorium, Room 190

Event is FREE, all are welcome
Space is wheelchair accessible

This talk formally launches a public work by Nicole Beno that celebrates Onsite Gallery’s upcoming move. View Beno’s larger-than-life vinyl mural on the window façade of 230 Richmond St. W., directly across from the gallery’s new location. From April 2016 to May 2017. Curated by Linda Columbus.

Nicole Beno
Nicole Beno is a graphic designer and visual artist from Toronto, working with bold colours, layers and screen printed compositions. Her playful process combines hand drawings, materials, and textures with computer generated illustrations to form a unique graphic style.

Onsite Gallery is pleased to present a public non-commercial graphic design vinyl work installed on the two-storey street-level exterior window surface of 230 Richmond St. W. – the former site of Onsite Gallery which directly faces the gallery’s future location across the street at 199 Richmond St. W.

Karen Carter
Karen Carter is the Executive Director of the Myseum of Toronto an innovative approach to the museum experience, and a new way to experience Toronto’s natural spaces, cultures, history, archaeology and architecture. She has over 20 years experience working and volunteering in a variety of cultural and educational settings in Toronto. She is the co-founder and Chair of Black Artists’ Networks Dialogue (BAND), an organization dedicated to the promotion of Black arts and culture in Canada and abroad. Karen is also the Program Coordinator and faculty member for the Culture and Heritage Site Management program at Centennial College’s Story Arts Centre.

Shawn Micallef
Shawn Micallef is the author of The Trouble With Brunch: Work, Class, & the Pursuit of Leisure, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and Full Frontal TO (nominated for the 2013 Toronto Book Award), a weekly columnist at the Toronto Star, and a senior editor and co-owner of the independent, Jane Jacobs Prize–winning magazine Spacing.  Shawn teaches at the University of Toronto and was a 2011-2012 Canadian Journalism Fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College. In 2002, while a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, he co-founded [murmur], the location-based mobile phone documentary project that has spread to over 20 cities globally. Shawn is the Toronto Public Library’s urban-focused Writer in Residence until December 2013.

Ala Roushan
Ala Roushan is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University and a Ph.D. candidate at the European Graduate School focused on Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought of the Digital. She is engaged in speculative design research, writing, curatorial practice and teaching through which she explores the boundaries of design, art and architecture. She is the co-curator/co-director of flip project space, a curatorial project for contemporary art based in Napoli, Italy. Through exhibitions and printed publications flip addresses various aspects of contemporary artistic practice by reevaluating the intricate networks between object, content, concept, form and space.

Nina Boccia
Nina Boccia is the Director of Programs at Design Exchange, Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to the pursuit of design excellence and preservation of design heritage. Nina was previously the Managing Editor at Designlines magazine, Toronto’s ultimate guide to design, and the Associate Editor of Azure magazine, where she wrote about design and architecture. She has interviewed some of contemporary design and architecture’s leading talents including Stefan Sagmeister, Philippe Starck, Rem Koolhaas, and Patrizia Moroso.

Onsite Gallery
www.ocadu.ca/onsite
Onsite Gallery, OCAD University’s public gallery and experimental curatorial platform for art, design and digital media, fosters social and cultural transformations. In preparation for the launch of Onsite Gallery’s new location in May 2017, our 2016 ONSITE/ programming imagines and creates what a public gallery can be.

Onsite Gallery’s education program is generously supported by Nexus Investment Management.

Design Exchange
www.dx.org
Design Exchange, a not-for-profit museum funded by its members and donors, is Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to the pursuit of design excellence and preservation of design heritage. At the crossroads of multiple disciplines, their programs are curated to reflect the popular zeitgeist and contemporary culture while demonstrating the relevance and importance of design to everyday life. DX is committed to delivering accessible design experiences and education and it aims to provide the tools necessary to connect design learning to the ordinary and extraordinary. 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University’s Auditorium 100 McCaul St., Room 190
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/events/1664704083779657/
Email: 
onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000, Ext. 456
Cost: 
FREE
Art/Design and Public Spaces Poster