Landscape Infrastructures | Emerging practices, paradigms & technologies reshaping the contemporary urban landscape October 25, 2008

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
230 College Street, Toronto, Canada
Lecture Hall (103)
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

An international symposium focusing on the emerging relationship that landscape and infrastructure has currently taken on, evidenced by the development of major public works in big cities worldwide. Guest speakers will present emerging paradigms, practices and technologies that are reshaping the contemporary urban landscape to reposition planners and designers vis-à-vis the reclamation of urban infrastructure as a critical territory for intervention.

Guest speakers include:
Stan Allen, Princeton University
George Baird, University of Toronto
Pierre Bélanger, University of Toronto
Julia Czerniak, Syracuse University
Herbert Dreiseitl, Atelier Dreiseitl
Kristina Hill, University of Virginia
Michael Jakob, Université de Genève
Nina-Marie Lister, Ryerson University
Kate Orff, Columbia University, SCAPE
Jane Wolff, University of Toronto

Moderators for the panel discussions include core faculty from the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design: Aziza Chaouni, Ted Kesik, Robert Levit, Liat Margolis, Alissa North, Mason White and Robert Wright.

The symposium is organized by the Centre for Landscape Research and the Programs of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Toronto (www.daniels.utoronto.ca). Funding for the symposium is generously provided by the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, the University of Toronto Connaught Fund, the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council and National Research Council Canada. The event is open to the public and attendance is free of charge.

Official Website: http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca