#DemocracyNow!

join me at the 2025 architecture and design film festival / Toronto!
download the full schedule (with a dozen + films screening) Nov 12 - 15 at #TIFF lightbox cinema, 350 King St West. More at adfilmfest.com

find a way, people,
to make peace now
here, there, everwhere

A significant new book on one of Toronto’s most inspiring and impactful affordable housing success stories.

Looking forward to a talk at TMU DAS Thursday March 27, 6:30pm by Chris T. Cornelius - a brilliant architect, artist and teacher!

See you at Toronto Metropolitan University, Dept. of Architectural Science, 325 Church St.

Please Register in here if you can attend: www.torontomu.ca/architectura...

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life is not a puzzle but puzzling images can be helpful.

McLuhan’s book ‘From Cliche to Archetype’ is organized as a selective “abecedary” beginning with “Absurd, Theatre of the” and ending (prior to Notes on Sources) with a closing entry on Theatre. The second to last entry is Table of Contents, filed under T, on pages 192, 193.

“Giedion approaches the entire manmade environment as architecture… this anonymous history tends to be ‘invisible’… The counterenvironments created by the artist serve to raise these hidden environments to the level of conscious appreciation.” - Marshall McLuhan, From Cliche to Archetype (1970), p77

“One of the techniques of the poet and the artist, it has been pointed out, is to contrive situations that will dislocate the mind into awareness.” - Marshall McLuhan (paraphrasing Viktor Shklovsky without acknowledgement), ‘From Cliche to Archetype’, p63)

this Marshall McLuhan / is among those amazing texts still on my reading list (1970 first edition… acquired in 2016). In this life of extremes, I sometimes also wish the medium was a message people could tune into.

sold-our play about #SidewalkLabs called “MasterPlan” has been extended soulpepper theatre + crow theatre #toronto www.soulpepper.ca/performances...

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