Engagement
Our engagement work involves public presentations, exhibitions and events. We build awareness on current urban issues, convene discussion, and mobilize change.
Featured Engagement
Good for Cities is a podcast that examines the ideas, policies, and trends shaping urban life. Hosted by Matti Siemiatycki, Director of the Infrastructure Institute at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, the show asks the essential question: are these interventions really making our cities better?
Each episode features conversations with leading urbanists, challenging assumptions about city building to uncover which ideas stand the test of time, and which might need to be rethought- or even scrapped altogether.
Get the latest episodes on Overcast, Apple Music, Spotify, Podbean, or directly on the Good for Cities page.
Hear Me Out, Proposal by the Mixtape Collective for Venice Biennale 2025
featuring Infrastructure Institute team members
Hear Me Out seeks to answer the following: When does personal/communal expression distort into noise? Whose supremacy dictates the use of shared spaces? Can we disavow our colonial complicity in extracting meaning and value from sound? How can radical acts of listening and reciprocity (re)imagine our sense of belonging?
Our cities face the challenge of reflexively serving the multicultural communities they claim to represent and champion. Prescriptive architectural and urban planning practices and policies have fostered a landscape of disbelonging, erasure, and extraction rather than inclusion. But as Canada anticipates an influx of 1.5 million immigrants by 2025, reconciling past injustices to both current racialized and Indigenous communities, is crucial to building an urban realm that bridges incoming cultures and sounds rather than deepening divisions. Through sonic interventions, Hear Me Out explores the tensions and innovation inherent in shaping spaces within our urban landscapes, while meeting the evolving needs of an increasingly diverse society
~Mixtape Collective~
Farida Abu-Bakare, Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen, Tura Cousins Wilson, Kazeem Kuteyi, Alexandra Lambropoulos, Shane Laptiste, Phat Le, Reza Nik.
Programs
+(plus) Exhibitions:
Drawing from ideas generated through the public’s participation in
+(plus) 1.0, our newest exhibition seeks to answer the question
“What if ?”. +(plus) 2.0 explores the full breadth of possibilities for community-building that emerge from mixing improbable uses together; questions the current systems that maintain the ‘status quo’ in architecture/urban planning; and encourages us all to reimagine not only what our neighbourhoods look like, but ultimately who our cities are for.