DesignTO 2025

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The DesignTO Festival returns January 24-February 2, 2025, celebrating its 15th birthday. Venues across Toronto will be activated for 10 days of incredible exhibitions, installations, and events.

Known as Canada’s largest annual design festival, DesignTO transforms Toronto into a creative hub, featuring over 100 exhibitions and events. Over the past 15 years, the Festival has welcomed over 1 million attendees, showcased 6,500+ creatives, and reached 2.6 billion people through media. Explore bold and ambitious ideas that respond to the climate crisis, social justice, technology, and more.

Selected Projects
At the conjuring of roots, I wished to meet Me…
Sankofa Square, 1 Dundas Street East, Toronto
‘At the conjuring of roots, I wished to meet Me…’ is an exhibition of photos by Toronto-based, Ghanaian-Nigerian photographer and visual artist Delali Cofie on five digital screens at Sankofa Square (formerly Yonge-Dundas Square).

BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration 2025
January 30-31, 2025
Hosted by Gensler, this 'Portfolio Collaboration' is an opportunity for BIPOC students to engage in conversations with professionals within the fields of Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Technology, Experiential Design (Signage & Wayfinding and Environmental Graphic Design) about building their portfolios.

Bubble Quilt
55 St Clair Avenue West
Experience Studio Rat’s immersive inflatable installation and lighting concept quilted from reclaimed waste plastics is sure to make you smile in wonderment. Hand-crafted inflated modules form a soft-glowing grid, illuminating surface patterns inspired by traditional quilt motifs.

DesignTO Talks: Net Positive
Ace Hotel Toronto (Interspace), 51 Camden Street, Toronto
Join DesignTO for 'DesignTO Talks:Net Positive’, a half-day event that brings together ten multidisciplinary experts to explore innovative responses to the climate crisis from a perspective of abundance.

DesignTO Youth: Story Story
Collision Gallery, 30 Wellington Street West, Toronto
‘Story Story’ is a group exhibition featuring 9 emerging artists and designers from the annual DesignTO Youth program. Through diverse mediums, materials, and forms, the showcased works present reflections on themes of family, identity, femininity, cross-generational traditions, and the ‘self’.