Thursday, May 21

5:00 - 7:00pm

Opening Reception

Gardiner Museum
Separate registration required

Friday, May 22
Conference held at Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria University in the University of Toronto

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7:30-8:30am

Registration

8:30-8:40

Welcome and Introduction for Mayor John Tory

Janet Rosenberg, Founding Principal, Janet Rosenberg & Studio
Michael McClelland, Principal, E.R.A. Architects, Inc.

8:40-8:55

Opening Remarks

Mayor John Tory, Toronto, ON

9-9:30

Making and Managing Toronto’s 21st Century Landscape

Charles A. Birnbaum, Founder + President, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

9:30-10:30

Setting the Stage I: A History of Coupled Human & Natural Systems in Toronto

Nina-Marie Lister, Associate Professor, Ryerson University, School of Planning
Brendan Stewart, Landscape Architect, ERA Architects, Inc.
and Ryerson Students TBD
Jane Wolff, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

10:30-11

Break

11am-12:15pm

Setting the Stage II: Toronto’s Emerging Urban Public Realm

Jennifer Keesmaat, Chief Planner, City of Toronto
Interviewed by: Paul J. Bedford, Urban mentor and former chief planner for the City of Toronto

12:15-1:45

Lunch

1:45-3:15

Panel I: Current Work in Toronto

Moderator:
Jane Amidon, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Urban Landscape Program, Northeastern University School of Architecture
              
Panelists:
Claude Cormier, Principal, Claude Cormier + Associés
Marc Ryan, Principal, PUBLIC WORK office for urban design & landscape architecture
Elizabeth Silver, Senior Associate, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

3:15-3:30

Break

3:30-5

Panel II: Toronto Lessons – Exporting Innovation & Failure

Moderator:
Bruce Kuwabara, Founding Partner, KPMB Architects, Toronto 
              
Panelists:
Adriaan Geuze, Principal, West 8 urban design & landscape architecture b.v., Rotterdam
Geoff Cape, CEO, Evergreen
Thomas L. Woltz, Principal, Nelson Byrd Woltz,

5-5:15

Closing Comments

Charles A. Birnbaum and Jane Amidon 

Toronto the Good Reception

An annual party presented by ERA Architects in the historic Distillery District.
SOLD OUT

Saturday, May 23

10am-6pm

What’s Out There^® Weekend Toronto

FREE Tours. Separate registration required

6-9pm

Evergreen Brick Works Tour and Reception

Twilight reception in the BMO Atrium.
Separate registration required

Sunday, May 24

9:30am-5:30pm

What’s Out There^® Weekend Toronto

FREE Tours. Separate registration required