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Have you registered for our Year End Show? Graphics by DAS student Sidra Homam |
In this issue: Year End Show 2025 | Doors Open Toronto | Engineering & Architectural Science Day 2025 Recap & More! |
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Our 2025 Year End Show Opens This Week! |
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The wait is over—our 2025 Year End Show is here!
Opening Night: Thurs, May 8 @ 6PM (Free food + drinks!)
Location: 325 Church St.
Exhibit Runs: May 8 – June 23
Explore 4 floors of our best student work—from first-year to our grad programs. Models, drawings, digital work—all part of our largest exhibition of the year! Don’t forget to register below.
Access Tip: Use the North West or South East doors + intercom. |
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Thank you to our Year End Show Sponsors: |
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Engineering & Architectural Science Day 2025 Recap
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This year’s event brought together final-year engineering and architectural science students to showcase their incredible year-end projects—a major milestone in their academic journey. From innovative research to real-world applications, the day was packed with inspiring presentations, networking, and awards.
A special congratulations to Heba Al Fayez for winning with her project, Readymade!
Check out the posters our students created for FEAS Day:
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Readymade by Heba Al Fayez |
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Building Community: Community Building by Stefan Giro, Jade Branker |
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Listening to the Land: Reimagining the NCCT by Luke DeBartolo, Katya Stokoz |
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Sacred Architecture by Muhammad Ghaffar, Christopher Chow, C. Perfetti |
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Upcoming Events |
DAS at Doors Open Toronto 2025
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Discover the city’s most fascinating spaces—for free! Doors Open Toronto returns the weekend of May 24th & 25th, opening doors to architecturally, historically, and culturally significant sites across the city. Our building at 325 Church St., will be open to the public. Don’t miss this chance to experience Toronto’s vibrant built environment—and see how our students and faculty are shaping its future!
Time: 10 AM – 5 PM
Share your visit: #DOT25 #TMUDAS
Stay tuned—we’ll share highlights from our community’s explorations!
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DAS Planting Event Rescheduled
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The Toronto Metropolitan University Community Planting that was cancelled on Tuesday April 29th due to inclement weather has been rescheduled to take place on Monday May 26th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.
We would love to see you there! Please re-register at the new event page.
Thank you for your continued support. We're excited to plant native shrubs on TMU's campus with you! |
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External Events & Opportunities |
Employment Opportunity at AZ Awards Gala for DAS Students
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AZURE is looking for enthusiastic and reliable students to assist with various tasks during the upcoming AZURE + AZ Awards Celebration, which will be held on June 19, 2025, at the Evergreen Brick Works (550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto ON M4W 3X8).
Selected students will receive $17.50 per hour and will be assigned to two (2) distinct shifts: a Daytime shift from 11am to 4pm and an Evening shift from 4pm to 12am. They are looking to hire 15 students per shift.
Interested students can apply by emailing events@azureonline.com by Friday, May 9.
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Competition launched to imagine future of public washrooms in Toronto
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The Toronto Public Space Committee has launched a global design competition aimed at imagining the future of public washrooms in the city.
The global design competition invites designers, architects, urban planners, and creative thinkers from around the world to propose design ideas for inclusive and innovative public washrooms to help advocate and spread awareness for the urgent need of a robust public washroom network in Toronto.
Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025
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The Michael Evamy Scholarship for Architecture Students presented by DIALOG |
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Are you an architecture student with a big idea? The Michael Evamy Scholarship offers up to $8,000 to support your final research thesis that advances your knowledge and career. This prestigious award, established in honour of Michael Evamy, supports students (graduate and undergraduate) in Canadian architecture programs as they explore a topic of their choice, enriching their personal and professional growth. Find more information about application requirements, funding specifics and eligibility here.
Deadline to submit is 11:59 p.m. MT on May 21, 2025.
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Student Competition:
Retrofit of an Existing Institutional Building |
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The 2025 Student Retrofit Competition, launching February 3, challenges students to redesign the enclosure of a 40+ year-old institutional building on their university campus. Participants will enhance thermal performance, energy efficiency, and aesthetics while maintaining the building’s original functions. The competition involves performance analysis, design proposals, and a 10-minute video presentation outlining solutions. Winning teams will present at the BSAO Fall Seminar & AGM on October 8, gaining industry recognition and networking opportunities. Submissions are due June 27—register your Intent to Submit today! |
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2025 Lyceum Competition:
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Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT.
https://competition.lyceum-fellowship.org/
Calling all architecture students! The 2025 Lyceum Competition, A Community for the Future of Food, challenges participants to reimagine two reclaimed buildings along Bridgetown, Barbados’s iconic Carlisle Bay. Guided by Program Author and Jury Chair Pierre Serrao (Black Star Barbados, Ghetto Gastro), this year’s theme focuses on sustainable design rooted in the region’s culinary heritage.
Your mission: transform these beachfront spaces into dynamic hubs for culinary innovation and community connection. Highlighting the disparities in the Caribbean's food system, this competition encourages designs that promote ecological farming, local consumption, and cultural pride. Don't miss this opportunity to shape the future of food in the world’s youngest nation!
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TSA CONNECT 2025: Career Paths |
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For our next TSA CONNECT—the Society’s popular networking and mentorship event, we’re excited to welcome the RAIC and the RAIC College’s Ontario Southwest Committee for a special-edition of our signature networking event, this time featuring and celebrating the most recently-inducted RAIC Fellows from our region! So come out and meet some inspiring individuals, learn about their stories, and make some connections at this very special event with the RAIC. Spots are limited so make sure to get your ticket today!
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
7:00 - 9:30 PM EST (Doors Open at 6:30 PM)
Centre for Social Innovation: Annex - Lounge (720 Bathurst St, Toronto)
$15 + HST General Admission, FREE for TSA Members (student membership is free!)
https://torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/events/tsa-connect-with-a-raic-fellow/ |
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TMU Programming |
Inviting Death: The life and death consequences of access to housing |
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The Office of Social Innovation is hosting an upcoming Transformation Cafe, titled Inviting Death: The life and death consequences of access to housing, as part of TMU’s School of Interior Design’s housed…unhoused…rehoused symposium taking place on May 9th.
More details:
May 9, 2024
12 PM - 2 PM
Daphne Cockwell Complex (DCC) 707/709 (7th Floor), 288 Church Street
Head here to learn more and register.
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Bytes & Barriers: Addressing Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence for Women and Girls with Disabilities |
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May 28, 2025, 8:30 am - 6 pm
Oakham Lounge – 35 Gould St, TMU (in-person & virtual)
Breakfast & Lunch provided for in-person attendees
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/bytes-barriers
This public symposium will bring together researchers, advocates, and policymakers to address technology-facilitated GBV and its impact on women and girls with disabilities.
For access inquiries, please contact Tarndeep Pannu at tarndeep.pannu@torontomu.ca by May 15, 2025.
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housed…[un]housed...[re]housed… 2025 Symposium on
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The housed…[un]housed...[re]housed… symposium will shine its academic light on our affordable housing and unhoused crisis in Toronto, Ontario. Given our recent pressing issues and experiences with affordability issues, refugee settlements, the COVID-19 pandemic, addiction, mental health, and the climate crisis, the symposium will probe and discuss precedents with a critical and multi-disciplinary lens. Hence, there is a need to revisit, question, and expand on the Fair Housing Act discourse, which prohibits discrimination and the Ontario Human Rights Commission that housing is a human right.
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Architecture Camp Summer 2025 Now Accepting Applications! |
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DAS presents this week-long camp for campers looking to unleash their creativity! Campers learn from some of the top Architectural Science students at Toronto Metropolitan, and participate in innovative and engaging team and individual exercises.
Each week's program culminates in a distinct take-home project that campers develop and take home on the final day of the week.
Camp days comprise an even balance of Architecture programming and physically active Camp games, so your camper goes home each day having nurtured both their body and brain.
The curriculum for Architecture Camp is developed by Prof. Vince Hui, who is a past recipient of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teacher Award.
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Nominations Now Open for the Viola Desmond Awards |
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The Viola Desmond Awards are here! Recognizing the outstanding impact of Black women and gender-diverse people in our community. #ViolaDesmondAwards
The 2024 Viola Desmond Awards and Bursary Program is led by the Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion (OVPECI). This year, OVPECI is partnering with the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, with contributions from campus partners serving on the Viola Desmond Planning Committee.
Submit a nomination to the Viola Desmond Awards by June 10.
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