Winter 2025 public program

The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto is excited to present its Winter 2025 Public Program. This semester’s program highlights the work of leading global thinkers and practitioners who are shaping the future of our built and natural environments. Through a dynamic series of lectures, book talks, discussions and more, they’ll explore such themes as extractivism, scarcity, landscape heritage and mosques as sites of contemporary architectural innovation, examining the role of our disciplines in addressing urgent challenges at home and across the globe.  

From the evolving relationship between the built world and the natural one to the ways in which architecture can foster social and environmental innovation, the Daniels Faculty’s Winter 2025 Public Program aims to provoke dialogue across timelines and geographies. 

All events in the series are free and open to the public. Register in advance and consult the calendar for up-to-date details. Many events will be live-streamed on the Daniels Faculty’s YouTube channel. 

January 23, 6:30pm ET 
The Dominion of Flowers: North American book launch 
Featuring Mark Laird (Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto) in conversation with Therese O’Malley 

January 30, 6:30pm ET 
The Legacy of Claude Cormier: film screening and panel discussion 
This event is being held as part of DesignTO Festival 2025 and in partnership by the Toronto Society of Architects, The Cultural Landscape Foundation and the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. 

February 6, 6:30pm ET 
An Alternative Urbanism: The Culture of Self-Organising Systems 
Featuring Tosin Oshinowo (Studio Oshinowo) 

February 7, 6pm ET 
Lewerentz Divine Darkness: film screening 
Featuring Sven Blume, Director 

February 11, 6:30pm ET 
Common Mud and Flooded Pits
Featuring Cooking Sections 
This artist talk is part of the Master of Visual Studies Proseminar series. 

February 13–14 
Mosque Architecture Now: Public Spaces for Social, Technical & Environmental Innovation 
Organized by Aziza Chaouni (Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto) and Ruba Kana’an (University of Toronto) 

February 13, 6:30pm ET: Keynotes and opening reception 
February 14, 9:30am–5pm ET – Mosque Architecture Now Symposium  

March 6, 6:30pm ET 
“One clover, and a bee”
Featuring Shirley Blumberg (KPMB Architects) 

March 13, 6:30pm ET 
Jeffrey Cook Memorial Lecture: A Measure of Architecture 
Featuring Amin Taha (GROUPWORK), Pierre Bidaud (The Stonemasonry Company) and Steve Webb (Webb Yates) 

March 20, 6:30pm ET 
Placeknowing
Featuring Theodore Jojola (University of New Mexico)