Photo by Scott Norsworthy.
The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design is launching a 7,500-square-foot experimental gallery with a metaphoric cave installation, located in the lower level of the Daniels Facility.
Curated by Professor Richard Sommer and New York-based designers, Pillow Culture, the Architecture and Design Gallery?s inaugural installation, New Circadia (adventures in mental spelunking), prompts participants to ask: What would happen if we disconnected from standard time and external stimuli within a dream-like space specifically designed for relaxation, reflection, and repose"
New Circadia (an approximate translation from Latin for ?New Day?) has been conceived to engage the city and the University of Toronto community alike in an underground, cave-like, soft utopia. ?Architecture today is inextricably bound up in the urbanization of the planet, and it needs to pay as much attention to the marking of time, as it traditionally has to the shaping of space,? says co-curator, Richard Sommer, Dean and Professor at the Daniels Faculty. ?With New Circadia, we are acknowledging architecture?s complicity in an increasingly stressful and zombie-like world by presenting an antidote to the over-mechanization of everyday life and our plugged-in, 24/7 culture. Might it be time to put architecture to sleep"?
The interactive installation will be made up of three zones. Beginning at the east entrance of the Daniels Building, visitors will ent...