Toronto’s Design Exchange is keeping its building, but deaccessioning its collection in order to focus on its biannual EDIT Festival and other programming.
Following the success of the inaugural edition of EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology (EDIT) in 2017, the focus of Design Exchange (DX) pivoted and the Board of Directors and Senior Management at DX unanimously decided to pursue a festival strategy, making EDIT the cornerstone of the organization?s programming, alongside relevant annual education and public programs. The next edition of EDIT will take place in Toronto in June 2020.
As such, DX will deaccession the Collection, a survey of Canada’s industrial design history from 1945 to the present featuring more than 300 works by Canadian designers including furniture, housewares, textiles, electronics, and lighting. In order to ensure that Collection receives the much-deserved attention and care, DX is working with Dr. Rachel Gotlieb, the organization?s founding curator who has exceptional knowledge and expertise in Canadian design history. Dr. Gotlieb is also the co-author of Design In Canada with Cora Golden.
Under Dr. Gotlieb?s stewardship, DX has made every effort to gift the Collection to institutions in Canada, where improved care can be provided and the works are maintained in the public domain. Dr. Gotlieb led a thoughtful and considered process, following Canadian Museum Association guidelines and consulting with staff, donors, externa...