Speakers:
Mary Rowe, President and CEO, The Canadian Urban Institute
Alex Josephson, co-founder, Partisans, an award-winning Toronto architecture studio

Topic:
Much of the focus on urban change over the past decade has centered on large cities. At the same time, smaller urban cores and peripheral towns have also undergone significant alterations, particularly with the arrival of a new cohort of young working professionals and a focus on denser transit-oriented development. The drive to work-from-home brought about by the pandemic has further led many to flee large cities in search of greater space and buying power. The result has been a dramatic reassembly of small-town urbanism. This Forum Lecture invites speakers to unpack the many transformations taking place in such communities. They will discuss specific cases as well as cross-Canada trends.

About Re-Assemble
The notion of assembly is at the core of architecture, from building materials to community connections, theoretical frameworks to programmatic uses, structural components to project teams. It is through these broadly defined yet interconnected assemblies that we construct our built environment. As we navigate new ways of convening and interacting with one another following the easing of lockdowns, the 2021-22 Forum Lecture Series turns to these many processes of architectural assembly and re-assembly.