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Design Talks Institute (d.talks)

1130 3 Street Southeast
Calgary, AB, T2G 5T6
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A public forum for ideas on design and the built environment.

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Let's talk about...intention

November 9, 2016 d. talks adm
image: Jesus Martin Ruiz

image: Jesus Martin Ruiz

Location


Festival Hall is a music hall designed by renowned Canadian architect Peter Cardew. The building is a jewel on a residential street in the neighbourhood of Inglewood connecting the present with the past. The ceiling trusses defining the open hall are reclaimed timber from an abandoned mill in Washington State. Salvaged beams from the Alberta Block were turned into woodcuts throughout and the wooden drink rail was salvaged from a Safeway store in Manitoba.

Discussion


The discussion explored the notion of intention, and the way in which our cities are designed and experienced. Berlin-based artist Larissa Fassler revealed a fresh approach to public infrastructure. Her paintings and installations, on exhibition at Esker Foundation, capture movement through train stations, busy intersections, and even public places known as non-places. Architect Jimenez Lai has forged a practice with an exploration of character and story. Using the mediums of the graphic novel and cartoonish curves in built form, his work provokes notions of how we build and how the narrative of place transpires. Alberta-based landscape architect Doug Carlyle provided a landing for exploring the physical characteristics of the public realm. Together the panel offered an opportunity to explore how individuals interpret our urban surroundings and how people interact as a result of design. Does place have language?

image: Jesus Martin Ruiz

image: Jesus Martin Ruiz


Panelists


Jimenez Lai - Bureau Spectacular
Larissa Fassler - artist
Doug Carlyle - Dialog
moderated by: Jan Kroman - Rockcliff Pierzchajlo Kroman

Panelist book


Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit

image: Jesus Martin Ruiz

image: Jesus Martin Ruiz

Continue the Conversation


Visit Shelf Life Books to find books around the topic of public realm and narrative of place. Visit the exhibition at Esker Foundation. Follow the great work of Bureau Spectacular. Find new ways of looking at spaces in your neighbourhood.

Event Supporters


Esker Foundation
DIRTT Environmental Solutions

 

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What is d.talks

Each event is based on a design topic. They are a combination of presentations that open up discussion, followed by a distillation of how it relates at a local level. Screenings of a short documentary or an exhibition, prime the discussion. At d.talks, a question is as important as an answer. 

Past Event Archive
Past Events
Let's Talk About... Wanderlust
Let's Talk About... Wanderlust
about a year ago
Let's Talk About... Home
about a year ago
Lobbyfest x d.talks
about a year ago
Let's Talk About the Grid..a reflection by Richard Harrison
about a year ago
Let's Talk About...The Grid
about 2 years ago
Interrupt Reframe: Who Decides?
about 2 years ago
Interrupt Reframe: Becoming Urban differently
about 2 years ago
Interrupt Reframe: What Wasn't Built?
about 2 years ago
Lets make an exchange!
about 3 years ago
World After This with Julian Agyeman
about 3 years ago
Let's talk about...horizon
about 3 years ago
WriteON residency with Calgary Public Library
about 3 years ago
WriteON residency with Esker Foundation
about 3 years ago
WriteON residency with Esker Foundation
about 3 years ago
Untold City: Empty commercial building as opportunity
about 3 years ago
Untold City: More than a Parkade Tour
about 4 years ago
Live at Noon: a discussion on diaspora and belonging
about 4 years ago
Let's talk about...land and memory
about 4 years ago
Let's talk about...making room
Let's talk about...making room
about 4 years ago
Let's talk about...togetherness
Let's talk about...togetherness
about 5 years ago

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