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Join us for a specially priced, in-person evening lecture at the OAA Headquarters in Toronto! The Association is excited to present the second in a two-night series this fall, exploring the six jury-selected concepts of the SHIFT2025 Challenge, Reshaping Communities—an ideas competition for the architectural community to showcase how it might offer new approaches to the goal of strengthening communities. The two standalone sessions each offer 1.5 hours of Structured Learning toward the OAA’s Continuing Education Program and include refreshments and a drink ticket for the $10 admission.

On Thursday, November 20, OAA Executive Director Kristi Doyle will introduce the teams behind these three submissions, who will then offer short presentations. The event will take place from 6 to 8:30 pm, with the first hour scheduled as a reception with refreshments and mingling, and the lecture portion underway thereafter.

This special in-person event offers another opportunity to learn more about:

• Swansea Park: A Development Concept for the Former Swansea Mews (Architect David Peterson);
• Parkdale Commons: A Living Food Bank (Architects Nancy Chao/Luc Johnston); and
• Speculative Assemblies: From Pine Needles to Pressed Coffee (Architect Jerry Hacker).

Space is extremely limited, and tickets are not available at the door, so register before November 10. Onsite and street parking are limited. If you have special accessibility requirements, please contact the OAA.

(To register for the other SHIFT2025 event, taking place on October 30, click here.)

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the premise of the OAA’s SHIFT2025 Challenge and its goal of showcasing how the architectural profession can approach societal challenges with new ideas and contexts.
2. Gain a better sense of how architectural interventions for a foodbank could respond to crisis moments by creating infrastructure that simultaneously strengthens community bonds and enhances food security.
3. Learn how an existing housing complex could be given new life by finding a balance between social, ecological, and functional concerns in knitting together natural and urban systems.
4. Consider the potential for a regenerative resource revolution, with building assemblies freed of the toxic materials, methods, and exploitative global supply chains that are wreaking havoc with human and planetary health.

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