Temporary Art Installation in collaboration with Design Workshop Architects
Design TO, 2019, The Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto, Canada
Across the vast space of the new Globe and Mail Centre’s elegant lobby, two unoccupied chairs face each other; a record of a conversation concluded. As visitors walk down the length of the lobby, the actual difference in scale and location between the chairs is revealed: one is small (3ft high), the other enormous (12ft high). While this is metaphor for our differences from one another, it is also a poignant reminder that the way in which we inhabit architectural space inherently changes our experience of it. The change of scale also forces a confrontation between art, form, and function; between people and buildings, and public and private space.
The Globe and Mail has been one of Canada’s prominent voices for generations, front and centre in the battle to keep the chasm of polarizing politics from becoming uncrossable. This is the conversation we are all engaged in: trying to find common ground between our social, political, economic, spatial and geographic differences. Will we abandon it, or will we stay in the conversation?