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Gentrification Tax Action (GTA) is a collective of artists and designers formed to campaign for a Gentrification Tax. Current members of GTA: Jane Mah Hutton teaches landscape architecture at the University of Waterloo; Sameer Farooq is an artist and documentary filmmaker; Kika Thorne is an artist; Adrian Blackwell is an artist and urbanist, teaching at the University of Waterloo.

Digital launch of galt. Issue 04: PAUSE/PLAY

Our reality has shifted. Through sporadic lockdowns, movements for social change shake the world while we organize within the digital realm. As time becomes nebulous, galt’s fourth issue pauses to question the design of our current reality and critically addresses our path towards better ones.

The book launch featured talks from two issue 04 contributors and two fellow publication initiatives:

The Civic Trust Award in the United Kingdom has named the theatre as a Regional Finalist.

The new Tom Patterson Theatre at the famed Stratford Festival is receiving international acclaim even before the building opens for the 2022 Festival season. 

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture Projects Review 2021 features graduate and undergraduate projects from the past year.

The exhibition showcases the creativity, craft and commitment to architectural excellence that are internationally recognized qualities of the School.

Settler-Colonial Modern

Writing about modernism in colonial contexts, architectural historian Gwendolyn Wright proposes that “the physical environment became a strategy for enforcing common values while maintaining difference within a conjoint modern world.” In Canada, little else exemplifies this statement so strongly as the century-long experiment known as residential schools.

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A virtual round table brought together Indigenous and settler architects and urbanists to share their perspectives on how property could be rethought, in order to reimagine the form and structure of Canadian cities, ultimately leading to the launch of issue 12/13 of the journal Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy titled c\a\n\a\d\a: Delineating nation state capitalism edited by David Fortin and Adrian Blackwell.

A Waterloo School of Architecture professor’s amphibious house research in Vietnam is highlighted as a Global Best Practice project at Expo 2020 Dubai opening today in the United Arab Emirates.