IwB Year End Exhibition
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The Institute without Boundaries invites you to the 2018-2019 cohort's Year End Exhibition
Join us on Thursday, May 30th from 6:00-8:00 pm at the New School of Design, 3 Lower Jarvis Street, for an interactive exhibition showcasing the culmination of the Interdisciplinary Design Strategy students’ research and design outcomes on affordability. Over the past year, the 2018/19 cohort has been tasked with understanding and critiquing our current state of unaffordability, exploring how we might build a more affordable future. “If unaffordability is a solvable problem, what is preventing us from solving it?”
We are living through an affordability crisis. At nearly every income level in every corner of the world, we’re feeling the crunch. As the cost of basic goods and services continue to rise, the topic of affordability is becoming increasingly critical. Growing income inequality, increasingly precarious employment, mass migration, rapid urbanization, technological innovations, and climate change are transforming the way we live. These globally interconnected issues and systems impact us in both negative and positive ways.
We have an opportunity, as human-centred design practitioners, to shape a more humanist and inclusive world. It starts by uncovering how our perceptions of value may be holding us back from building an affordable world and remembering our roots: finding and addressing real human needs, upholding human values, and creating meaningful experiences. Through this exhibition, the current cohort of IwB students will showcase their research, insights, and ideas that demonstrate how we might design a more affordable future.
Organizer Institute without Boundaries, School of Design, George Brown College
Organizer of IwB Year End Exhibition
Founded in 2003, the Institute without Boundaries (IwB) is a Toronto-based studio and think tank education program that is part of the School of Design at George Brown College. The IwB works toward collaborative design practice with the objectives of social, ecological and economic innovation through design research and strategy. At the Institute, we see the designer as a problem solver with the ability to affect positive change for humanity.
The IwB is a place where students, teachers, industry and community experts come together to solve complex global issues. Just as wicked problems span across social, political, economic and environmental boundaries, the new breed of designer must do the same —challenging 20th century paradigms.
