Interior Design Show Toronto director Will Sorrell has curated an exhibition of speculative spaces, including a model for transitional housing by architecture studio SvN for sites in mid-development.
Future Neighbourhood was an exhibition in the centre of the design trade fair Interior Design Show Toronto 2024 (IDS Toronto), which featured six different installations showcasing design's "ability to shape our future".
Each booth addressed a solution to an urban problem, with nearly half of the booths addressing different aspects of the housing crisis, which Sorrell pinpointed as the most pressing concern in today's urban environment.
Future Neighbourhood was an exhibition at IDS Toronto 2024
"We looked at the applications and realised that housing was going to be one of the main conversations," Sorrell told Dezeen. "It reflects what everyone is worrying about right now and one of the big problems that designers are preoccupied with solving," he said.
He also said that the exhibition tried to address the fair's two audiences ? the design industry and the public.
Architecture studio SvN installed a model of a timber transitional housing model. Photo by SvN
The exhibition took place in an enclosed miniature "neighbourhood" in the middle of the fair, with a large sign with the name of the exhibition bridging the entryway and central thoroughfare, towards which the booths were oriented.
One of the booths, called Housing the Unhoused, was pu...