Conversation, Material & Metaphor

For me, the highlight of this week’s Toronto International Design Festival highlight is Friday’s Symposium -- Conversations in Design: Crowdsourcing Creativity and Community. Its the symposium's 2nd year.If you’re working in a thought leadership capacity where ideas matter and you're inspired by innovation and collaborative communication technologies -- don’t miss the day’s line-up of thought provoking speakers and design leaders.Conversations are sure to bring fresh insights about new and alternative design practices, materials, technologies and products. Check out the link above for more information, and look at the speaker list and schedule of events. Tickets are not expensive and the value is HIGH.

And well, because we're in deep winter here above the 49th parallel, consider The Snow Show.

"The Snow Show explores the issues related to Art and Architectural investigation by creating works from the ephemeral materials of snow and ice. An artist was partnered with an architect and invited to develop a work together—this conversation created a bridged between the art and architectural worlds."

First curated in 2006 by independant curator, Lance Fung. Don’t miss the curatorial statement. The site also shows the works melting. Yoko wass a participant as was Zaha Hadid and Kiki Smith.