The World Monuments Fund, Daniels Faculty at UofT and Architectural Conservancy Ontario presents The Future of Ontario Place Colloquium, an online lecture series comprising four sessions working towards reimagining the future of Ontario Place.

Each conversation will be widely relevant to heritage conservation practices, using Ontario Place as a starting point to engage in wider issues. The last session (on February 24) will include the winners’ announcements for Ontario Place: A Call for Counterproposals, the Canada-wide design challenge launched last year.

The sessions include: 
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LESSONS FROM UTOPIAN MEGASTRUCTURES 
FEB 03, 2021 // 12-1:30 PM EST 
Link to sign up: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future-of-ontario-place-lessons-from-utopian-megastructures-tickets-138001649649  In one of his initial sketches of Ontario Place, architect Eberhard Zeidler noted his ambition to ?reclaim the shoreline for people?? democratizing access to Toronto?s waterfront. The resulting architecture maintains strong formal and conceptual relationships to utopian megastructures and largely unbuilt proposals from Archigram, Yona Freidman, Kisho Kurokawa, and Superstudio. This discussion locates Ontario Place within these speculative utopian projects of the 1960?s, elucidating Zeidler?s attempts to demonstrate pluralistic thinking and democractic principles through architectural form. How can we use lessons from Ontario Place?s relationships to wider architectural movements to ...