EUC WORKSHOP: CITY OF EXPERIENCES

This workshop is presented in collaboration with York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

City of Experiences

City of Experiences aims to re-shape the way cities are designed by continuing to challenge how urban environments are constructed and who they are constructed for. Emotions and experiences are often overlooked by formal planning processes due to lack of tools needed for designing policies that can better incorporate them. Having Identified the critical relationship between people, tools and space—City of Experiences intends to provide city residents with the necessary tools for designing their own environments based off shared needs, emotions and experiences.

This is a 2-hour, activity based workshop. Participants will gain experience developing scenarios and thinking about user-based designs beyond humanity.

This workshop is led by Christopher Pandolfi, Director of Programming, HXOUSE

For the last five years Chris has worked with the HXOUSE team and a wide range of partners to oversee the design and facilitation of HXOUSE programming across its four Pillars. Chris has over 15+ years in the design and education space, and is the co-founder and Creative Director of the Research and Design studio Department of Unusual Certainties (DoUC). He has led and worked on projects both internationally and domestically, that range from experience design, social engagement, strategy development, education and urban design.

Chris is an active professor at George Brown College where he teaches across different programs at the School of Design. He is also an instructor and sits on the adjudication board for the Design for Change MA program at IADT in Dun Laghoire.