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International Conference ACAH 2015 in Osaka, April 2-5, 2015

“Individual, Community & Society: Conflict, Resolution & Synergy”

How to Heal and Organize a Community around an Architectural Development. Case study - Shaftesbury Development, Toronto, Canada

Authors:

Karpinski, Daniel, Ph. D, OAA

Chang School of Architecture

Ryerson University, Toronto

with

Tahmina Begum

Independent scholar

Vanessa Campos

University of Toronto

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

Susan Clarahan

Independent scholar

Lindsay Wu

University of Toronto

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

PLACE

SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

PACE

(timelines)

A project structured in a municipal process, happening in a wounded community

to make

PEACE

How to heal community trough a project, a process of integrated design?

PEACE

P-ACE

SPACE

Healing trough a space (a design happening in a place / space, a harmony, chaos, emotions, ideas, energy)

SPACE S-A-E SCAPE

SHARE S-A-E SCAPE

SCAPE

(def) A long steam of a flower rising from a RHIZOME

(A grass root action)

RHIZOME

1. (Gr.) Rhizoma – a mass of roots

2. (Phil.) Multiplicity, not continuous multiplicity which leads to a not linear geometry in

design, A circular process, an integrated process of design, a feministic concept

1. Related to endless connections between semiotic chains, organization of power and art, science and social struggles

(RHIZOME) brought us to

CONTEXT – SCAPE

Our number one SCAPEs, allowing us to contextualise the project

Our CONTEXT-SCAPES were:

URBAN SCAPE – context of theory, urban space development

CITY SCAPE – related to Toronto in particular

TOWN SCAPE – local developments and a history of place

STREET SCAPE – a shape of physical environment on a main street

LANE SCAPE – private scale between houses in a lane

COMMUNITY SCAPE

(A social dimension / social context)

COMMUNITY’S SCAR

(Related to a lawsuit between community and one of their own neighbours)

How to

E-SCAPE

From a conflict without a SCAR – not being a part of a conflict but bringing a positive energy into community

(es)CAPE

- PE

PEACE

(multiplicity and unity, a cape to maintain a bull)

DESIGN-SCAPE

3D – SCAPE (a vision, an idea, but as well a target

SCOPE – extend of a range in our view

SCOPE – of the project (urban, architectural, social)

Tele-SCOPE – a distance to the project / process

SCAPEs:

LANDSCAPE – EARTH

AIRSCAPE – space / WIND

HARDSCAPE – FIRE

WATERSCAPE – WATER

(four elements shaping the project in an “ecology” of the city, (Ecotone), creating an eco- socio - logical “landscape” in the community. Trough this “landscape” ideas and agreements are expressed and emotions are created)

EARTH

WIND

FIRE

WATER

Indigenous, invisible SCAPE

BUILDONG SCAPE

EARTH – returning what is covered by green roofs and green walls

WIND – framing and defining space between, under, around buildings

FIRE – exposing (creating a vista) three fire places in three buildings

WATER – reflecting, cooling, watering buildings and landscape

EMOTIONAL SCAPE

Affecting development

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