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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...boundaries

December 11, 2013 d. talks adm
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location historical Burns Building

what happened? Juxtaposed live parkour with a conversation about the design of public space 

screening “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” and “My Playground”

panel discussion with Greg Stewart/City of Calgary, Marc Boutin/the Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative, Steve Nagy/Breathe Parkour Magazine, Andrea Ross/Parkour instructor

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Lauda Images

Our public spaces come alive with people. Human life animates a built environment of hard surfaces and smooth finishes. Interpreting, adapting, reusing our built form, how individuals animate space expands the relevance of our architecture. The event will contrast a portion of William Whyte’s 1980 classic, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, with My playground, a film about movement and urban space through the eyes of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels (BIG Architects) and practitioners of parkour.
Join us as alleys, sidewalks and parks unite.

event supporters_ The Calgary Foundation, Allied Properties

friends_ ACAD, Black Fly Agency, Breathe Parkour, Emmedia, Tamara Lee, MOCA, No Limits, Vine Arts

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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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