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Category Archives: Outposts

Tantalizing Possibilities: Expo for Design Innovation & Technology
City / Outposts

Tantalizing Possibilities: Expo for Design Innovation & Technology

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Schuster Gindin • Leave a comment

EDIT is a design and technology exposition with big aspirations to change the world. Installed recently for a week in a huge derelict soap factory the intention was to inspire, connect, demonstrate, and share solutions to global problems. Continue reading →

MUSIC IN THE BARNS: The moment that spark hits the stage
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MUSIC IN THE BARNS: The moment that spark hits the stage

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Schuster Gindin • Leave a comment

Carol Gimbel, founder and artistic director of Music in the Barns, generates the visionary experiential concerts performed in a repurposed transit carbarn at Artscape Wychwood Barns. Continue reading →

CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION: Can a bit of real estate change the world?
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CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION: Can a bit of real estate change the world?

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Schuster Gindin • Leave a comment

The CSI creates and animates co-working spaces, connecting and supporting people who are trying to make the world they want to live in. Continue reading →

OUTPOSTS: Ventures Beyond the Box
In this Issue / Outposts

OUTPOSTS: Ventures Beyond the Box

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Schuster Gindin • Leave a comment

We live in the constant, ruthless flux of job and housing markets, of family and relationship reconfigurations and career impediments. As circumstances or conditions change, how do we respond? This issue presents a few examples of alternative ideas and practices, both new and old. Continue reading →

COUNTING SHEEP: A play, a dance performance, a concert?
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COUNTING SHEEP: A play, a dance performance, a concert?

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Schuster Gindin

This original performance by the Lemon Bucket Orkestra is part concert, part sing-along, part play, part dinner theatre and puts the audience in the middle of Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti during the 2014 uprising in Ukraine. Continue reading →

GETTING AROUND TORONTO: Look Ma, No Car
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GETTING AROUND TORONTO: Look Ma, No Car

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Miria Ioannou

Suzanne Long’s dream is to own a folding bike. In the meantime, she gets around the city with the TTC, car2go, walking, her regular bike and new apps that let you plan the best way to get places. Continue reading →

STREETCARS: Visible History
Outposts / Transit

STREETCARS: Visible History

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Schuster Gindin • Leave a comment

A visit to New Orleans evokes reminders of the city’s rich streetcar history and prompts contemplation of the construction frenzy in Toronto that has demolished much of our urban history leaving us to suffer from antiquities envy. Continue reading →

THE FEATURE WALL
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THE FEATURE WALL

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Schuster Gindin • Leave a comment

Painting a creatively designed wall in a child’s room inspires a sense of freedom from traditional gender constraints and has an unexpected effect on how the author perceives her own life. Continue reading →

MAKING IT NEW: For these Toronto start-ups it’s not business as usual
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MAKING IT NEW: For these Toronto start-ups it’s not business as usual

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Miria Ioannou • Leave a comment

These new businesses are led by young entrepreneurs – in their 20s or 30s – who are passionate about their work and innovative about how they run and promote their companies. Continue reading →

TRANSITIONING TO MY TRUE SELF: Christine Newman’s Story
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TRANSITIONING TO MY TRUE SELF: Christine Newman’s Story

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Schuster Gindin

Christine Newman is a transgender woman in her 50s who has experienced sadness, fear and tragedy in her lifelong quest to become her true self. She is finally on the road to achieving that self and being happy. Continue reading →

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