ABOUT HERE: Art, Architecture, Landscape: for and the about the Dupont West
October 4 to November 14, 2003

Exhibition at Dupont|Dyan Marie Projects
Dupont West is undergoing rapid change. The Lansdowne Dufferin area has two major large-scale residential/mixed use development projects underway. Go has ideas to introduce a rail line with an overpass reaching heights 30 feet. The TTC Barns on Lansdowne are slated for demolition and redevelopment. All of this is proposed for a community struggling to develop and retain its own character amidst a long list of local concerns and issues.

This project pools information, ideas and observations. It is intended to help develop an informed community perspective, to help guide change and to introduce our neighbourhood to the city at large.

Attila Burka: Burka Architects- Concept Plans for General Electric site at Lansdowne and Dupont

Guy Walter: Urban Surface - Concept drawings for Community Green Walking System “Walk Here” a community and public art walkway that connects internal neighborhood sites and reconnects to the city at large

Sheldon Levitt, Les Klein: Quadrangle Architects- Concept Plans for the redevelopment of the Galleria Mall site at Dupont and Dufferin

Jim Melvin, Fung Lee, Alissa North, Sam Bietenholz. PMA Landscape Architects - Ideas for improving local parks: Splash playground for the westside of Wallace Emerson Park & concept designs for park information boards

Dyan Marie: artist and founder of DIG IN & Dupont Projects - Photographic work documents: accidental gardens and cuts made into CN /CP rail lines fences to gain access to green space and reconnect neighbourhoods

Richard Rhodes: artist, writer and editor of Canadian Art Magazine - Photographs of clouds that form over the blacktop surface of the Galleria Mall and Wallace Emerson Park