The Urban Imaginaries Festival
the final event of the ‘Urban Imaginaries Ottawa’ project is a design-art based festival.
two days of activities and content to share what we have experienced, discovered, discussed, and learned, and to think about what is to come for the future of the project.
it is made of activities for exchanging ideas, for transforming the urban space, and that provoke reflections.
among them: the exhibition ‘Designing-sensing-thinking’, the urban exploration ‘Urban Body Discovered’ (an exploration of possibility for the moving body in an urban environment), video essays projection, meeting with the artists, etc.
the exhibition opens on May 7, 8:00 am at Arlington 5 and lasts till the end of May 8.
on May 7, there is:
from 3h15 to 4 pm: Urban Body Discovered by Laurinda Cheng, Rhéal Gauthier and Owen Tuf;
4 to 5 pm: Designing-sensing-thinking, conversation with authors;
5 to 5h10 pm: "Sounds of freedom and other myths" (audio essay);
5h10: "Experiences of the city" (screening of video essays);
6 to 6h10 pm: project closing and future by Chiara Del Gaudio;
6h10 pm on: meet the urban imaginers & music from Charles Cleyn.
the activity is indoors-outdoors.
@ Arlington 5 on May 7-8, 2022
Designing-Sensing-Thinking The City
this exhibition will take place at A5, indoors and outdoors, on May 7 and 8, 2022. It will also be available online from May 7 on. ‘Designing-sensing-thinking the city’ is an invitation to explore the multiple cities that make Ottawa and its multiplicity of meanings. The exhibition aims to raise questions on who makes the city and who is represented in its making. It is from this understanding that new place-based narratives for making and remaking of the city can emerge.
the works of this exhibition are counternarratives that explore existing dreams, desires, needs, opportunities, as well as hidden, disregarded, and forgotten stories in the city.
they act as platforms for dialogue, and they invite us to reconnect, rediscover, and rethink the urban space.
Chiara Del Gaudio
Curator: Chiara Del Gaudio
Design by: Maya Chopra and Brianna McGregor
Artists: see each artwork
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Community Mural
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Hanging Perspectives
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Weaving the City
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Case for Community
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Longing for Belonging
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Familiarity x Unknown
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Shifting Codes: Decoding Ottawa’s Present, Past & Future
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Playlists of Centretown: The Present, Past & Future
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The Spectacle & The Spectator
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Human & Non-Human Connections
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Countermaps: Rediscovering Ottawa Through Sounds & Emotions
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Traces in the Cold
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How Does the City Sound?
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Aesthetics vs. Reality: A Conversation
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Centretown 2040
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Urban walk
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Mad Libs
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Elgin’s Soundscape
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Elgin’s Cityscape
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Tune in, Tune out, and All About
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Sounds of Freedom... and Other Myths
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The Sound of Silence
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Informing Our Perceptions Of A Neighborhood
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Building Cities Through Collective Memories
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Seeing the Unseen
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