[caption id="attachment_21623" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="A Mare Usque Ad Mare in 50 paces"][/caption] What if you could experience statistics and graphs spatially? I mean, really climb inside a well-made graphic chart and walk its clear proportions? It’s a question that Ms. Frizzle could have asked of the adventurous children of The Magic School Bus, and it’s a question that is explored with similar playfulness by the Department of Unusual Certainties (Brendan Cormier, Christopher Pandalfi and Simon Rabyniuk, currently Spacing Magazine contributors) in their first collaboration as innovators-in-residence at the Design Exchange. Play>Nation, the new exhibition on the 3rd Floor of the DX covers a great topic – exploring how geography is linked to the Canadian identity by playing with landscape, with history and with the symbols of Canadian outdoor culture. The Play>Nation curatorial team (Noa Bronstein, AnneMarie Minardi, Mark Scheibmayr and Katie Weber, with the DX Graphic Designer, Lisa Zych) is particularly interested in how it came to be that so many Canadian designers of outdoor recreation gear have attained world-class status. Chock full of iconic and innovative Canadian outdoors design, the items on display by themselves would be worth a look, but the DoUC’s contribution to the exhibition design makes the show a truly exciting place to take a spatial frolic.