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Spaces
| Cities in the latter part of the last century felt pressure to create initiatives to remake their images in response to forces that privileged access to flows of capital in an increasingly hierarchical and exclusive archipelago of “global cities.” Local cultures and alternative perspectives were seen to be sites of resistance to these developments, and locating art and artists in the context of their own neighbourhood and community were represented as a more authentic expression of artistic practice. However, recent urban scholarship has brought these perspectives together in an approach that frames the city as an entity extant within a network of other cities, yet also as a place embedded within its own particularity. Read more... |
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Artscape Wychwood Barns   
Photos by Cait McKinney
The Artscape Wychwood Barns is a multi-purpose, not-for-profit community centre located near St. Clair Avenue West and Christie Street in Toronto’s midtown area. Housed in a series of renovated maintenance barns built by the predecessor to Toronto's Transit Commission between 1913 and 1921, the space features office and meeting space for 12 non-for-profit organizations, 15 artists studios and 26 artist live/work studios, all offered by application at affordable, below-market rents. The centre also houses a public community art gallery which features the work of local artists and barn residents. Centre for Social Innovation and Kensington Market  
Photos of Centre for Social Innovation courtesy of Yvonne Bambrick
When Yvonne Bambrick becomes involved in local activism, building relationships between artists communities and developing common spaces through the city, she does not dabble; she throws everything into her work. First and foremost, Bambrick is the Community Animator for the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI). The Centre is a curated space in the Robertson Building on Spadina Avenue—a repurposed warehouse/factory in downtown Toronto developed by Urban Space Property Group, known for developing 401 Richmond, the artistic epicenter of the city. As Bambrick says, “The greenest building is the one that’s already been built.” With a biowall, or a “Four-square meter living-breathing plant wall” which purifies and fans clean air into the building, a green roof that covers 4,000 square feet, and a bicycle friendly parking area (which won them a “bicycle friendly business award” in 2007), the Robertson building gives welcome respite from the drab interiors of the traditional corporate office building. |
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