Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.  - - - - - - - - - - - - The Forum is over, but the celebration continues: the Barns officially open to the public tomorrow, November 20th. Happy exploring! Photo: Wychwood Streetcar Barns #1, Hugh Martin

Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.  - - - - - - - - - - - - It's the Community Hubs breakout session, and we're exploring the kinds of new and innovative partnerships that are being developed to advance the “neighbourhood hub” concept from an idea to reality. Ruth Crammond, the United Way's Community Hub Coordinator, gave us some insight into a hub project that's in the works for east Scarborough:...

Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.  - - - - - - - - - - - - Name: Jack Zhou Occupation: Painter Moved to the Barns: 1 week ago Favourite feature of his new live/work space: great light, big windows, and high ceilings ------ Learn more about Artscape's tenants.

Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond. - - - - - - - - - - - - I just heard Carol Coletta, president and CEO of CEOs for Cities, speak about collaboration and creativity, and I'm keen to give her radio show a listen: Smart City Radio A weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that takes an in-depth look at urban life and the people, places, ideas and trends shaping cities.

Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.   - - - - - - - - - - - - Creative convergence — what is it, why is it important, and what can creative space developers from different sectors learn from one another? Big questions for an 8am morning and a negative-8-degree commute, which might explain the rather desperate clutch of delegates at the coffee stations this morning on ...

Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.  - - - - - - - - - - - -  One of the most exciting community-building initiatives at the Barns is the Green Barn Campaign, a satellite project of The Stop Community Food Centre, a not-for-profit organization that "strives to increase access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds community and challenges inequality" (editor's ...

  Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond. - - - - - - - - - - - - When we think of “Green” architecture, we usually think of new technologies, new materials — in short, new buildings. But with the Barns, architect Joe Lobko has shown that old can be green. “There is a natural complement between heritage and sustainability,” he said during his panel discussion, From Concept ...

Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.   - - - - - - - - - - - - Maryann Kerr, Executive Director, Artscape Foundation, on the up close and personal fundraising ask: "You can't milk a cow by mail." It took $21.2 million to build the Artscape Wychwood Barns, and to give you an idea of what that financial commitment looked like at "dirt level," check out the conceptual views of the ...

Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.   - - - - - - - - - - - - From Richard Florida's Who's Your City?: Jane Jacobs once told me that communities everywhere are filled with creative vigor, but that some of them are run by squelchers. Squelchers are control freaks who think they know what's best for the city or region, even as their leadership (or lack ...

Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.  - - - - - - - - - - - - It's not everyday that downtown Toronto sees a good old-fashioned barn raising, but it's happening today in the Christie and St. Clair neighbourhood at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. For years, the historic barns sat ignored and disused at 76 Wychwood Avenue. To many people in Toronto, ...