Mapping DefensiveTO is looking for volunteers to participate in an interactive public space project.

Mapping DefensiveTO is looking for volunteers to participate in an interactive public space project.

Led and developed by public space researcher Cara Chellew, Mapping DefensiveTO is the first of its kind to systematically map defensive urban design in Toronto’s public parks, squares, and privately owned, publicly accessible spaces (POPS).
Defensive urban design, also known as hostile, unpleasant, or exclusive architecture is an intentional design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to guide or restrict behaviour in urban space as a form of crime prevention or order maintenance. It's used to target people who use or rely on public space the most by restricting the behaviours they engage in. From benches with centre bars designed to keep homeless people from lying down, to ledges embedded with anti-skateboard deterrents, defensive urban design conveys the message "you are not welcome here."

The goal of the project is to gather data on the extent and pervasiveness of defensive urban design in Toronto while inviting community members to rethink how their public spaces are designed, and for whom. 

Participants are invited to attend a project orientation session on June 18, 2019 at CSI Spadina from 6pm-7:30pm. The meeting will provide an overview of the project and how to identify various forms of defensive/hostile architecture. Volunteers will then be split into groups and assigned locations to visit over the weekends of June 22-23 and 29-30.
If interested in participating, please fill out availability here: https://forms.gle/oxFvRYWqXaxu3T2z5 

Thanks!

concerts canceled by NBA

David Friend, The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, May 29, 2019 4:53PM EDT 
Last Updated Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:07PM EDT

TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors' first appearance in the NBA Finals is a cause for celebration for many Canadians, but it also has put a damper on plans for some concertgoers.

330 YongevSt east side, ready g for above sidewalk offices.

Peacock hotel fire video at city tv news

https://youtu.be/eEPyDhDuiEA

Article on Sculptor Jyhling Lee the artist who created the new wonderful Regent Park sculpture.

https://www.therecord.com/living-story/2587642-an-idea-takes-shape-in-waterloo/

June is National Indigenous History Month

June is National Indigenous History Month

Enjoy a month-long series of events, educational, cultural, and culinary experiences during National Indigenous History Month. Celebrate the heritage, contributions and cultures of Indigenous peoples in Canada all June long at Toronto History Museums. 

Indigenous Arts Festival – June 21 to 23

Enjoy the annual Indigenous Arts Festival at Fort York National Historic Site! Celebrate traditional and contemporary Indigenous theatre, storytelling, film, crafts, and culinary experiences. Featuring  performances by Indigenous artists from across Turtle Island, including Beatrice Deer, Quantum Tangle, Fawn Big Canoe, Jah'kota and more.

The festival is produced by the City of Toronto in partnership with Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Na-Me-Res, the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, and The Friends of Fort York. The festival is presented by Tim Hortons with financial support from the Government of Canada.

Ron cy Reduces' Film and Speaker Night on Plastic Waste on World Environment Day Wednesday, June 5, 6:45 9:00 pm

Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave.

Ron cy Reduces presents "The Clean Bin Project" movie, and Toronto

waste expert Charlotte

About this event; "Feeling overwhelmed by the news about plastic

waste in our world? Need some positive input? Come out to this

community event and:

Let yourself be inspired by Jen and Grant, a BC couple, who tried to

live without waste for a year and managed to turn this endeavour into

a funny and moving The Clean Bin Project. Trailer and website

Listen to Charlotte Toronto Waste expert, about how the City of

Toronto works towards a circular economy and a zero waste goal and

how we can all be part of it.

Find out how easy it has become to ditch packaging because so

many shops and restaurants in Roncesvalles have joined Ron cy

Reduces and have the BYO (Bring your own) sticker at the door that

tells you; 'Yes! You can bring your own container, cloth net

coffee cup etc.'

Sponsored by Meridian, Roncesvalles BIA, Shopl Etee

Tickets (10$) at Eventbrite:

You can email Ron cy Reduces at roncy.reduces@gmaiI.com or find

them on Face book or lnstagram.

David Byrne Interview: When to Resist Technology

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 I used to think that I should watch TV 

I used to think that it was good for me they're recording part of music has gotten much cheaper people can record on their laptops they can edit and compose on their laptops and the quality is fine the means of production have been handed to the creators which is kind of wonderful but it means that there's a lot being created and not all of it is good the sort of the software that allows us to record on laptops tends to encourage us to record in certain ways it tends to make the songs very regular repeatable the tempos are usually very strict in steady which at some point in the past was an ideal but it's not an absolutely steady tempo is maybe not not the best thing in the world so in some ways the computers and the technology push us in a certain direction and we have to know creatively when to resist that when to resist the things that the computer makes too easy depending on what kind of music it is I'll start off with Mega be a guitar or something first to get to get a framework starting without the computer allows me a certain kind of freedom I'm not restricted by what the computer tries to get me to do I love this child we're to be honest I don't think the quality of recordings is the most important thing it this music that I heard when 

I was very young I heard it on a horrible sounding little radio and but it completely moved me it completely changed the way I thought about music and other things I try and when obviously when I'm recording or capturing a piece of music I try and get the sound to be as good as possible but I realize that somewhere down the line people might be listening on their phone with their headphones they might even be listening just holding the phone in their hand maybe they'll be listening on their computer speakers that's very likely 

but you know the speakers that are maybe this big so I realized that it's there it's there if people want it but if they don't want it or can't afford it or don't need it I hope that this the song or the music works in whatever format when I see people listening to music on their phones maybe without even a headphone with just holding the phone up it makes me wonder okay what kind of music works really well like that a global pop music is that the the kind of it sounds best like this or is it some other kind of music that sounds best like maybe a solo solo violin or something very very simple if one were to compose music that would sound good when you just hold up a phone what would it be I don't know

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