Nomadic Vision Studio (Claire Kurtin, Nadia Pulez and Ramin Yamin) was formed in 2014 as a collective of current masters students from the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. Kurtin, Pulez and Yamin are in their second year of the Maters of Architecture program.

Flore Synthetica explores the notion of artificiality and landscape through a contradictory sensory experience. A natural environment is invoked through scent and juxtaposed with artificial flora media, creating an immersive experience. This encourages the viewer to re-imagine the relationship between the natural world and the designed world. Flore Synthetica aims to evoke memory by painting a picture with scent on the white canvas of the space.

Gladstone Hotel is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Gladstone Grow Op, a five day exhibition celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art and place making under the theme: culture of landscape. Grow Op 2015 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices within the vibrant setting of Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood. Grow Op, as one of the most intriguing annual exhibitions in Toronto, encourages a wide range of perspectives and dialogues around landscape and place; challenging our understanding of nature and the built environment around us. #GROWOP2015

Thursday, April 23rd – Sunday, April 26th, 2015 | Thurs. 11am-8pm, Fri. 11am-10pm, Sat. and Sun. 11am-5pm | Opening Reception: Friday, April 24th, 2015 | $10

For all Grow Op events and parties see our Grow Op event page.

Julie Bogdanowicz is an architect with a background in urban geography and environmental studies. She currently works for the City of Toronto in Urban Design after having practiced architecture for several years in Vancouver, New York and Toronto. Julie is a sessional instructor at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design where she teaches studio design and a history-theory course on urban landscape.

In rural areas with disobedient, impenetrable soil, a strange phenomenon appears: every house has a mound. These are septic systems that do their work above ground. Bridging architecture, landscape architecture, geography, biology and infrastructure, they are a landscape expression of the soil volume required to treat waste: the bigger the house, the bigger the mound.

Gladstone Hotel is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Gladstone Grow Op, a five day exhibition celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art and place making under the theme: culture of landscape. Grow Op 2015 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices within the vibrant setting of Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood. Grow Op, as one of the most intriguing annual exhibitions in Toronto, encourages a wide range of perspectives and dialogues around landscape and place; challenging our understanding of nature and the built environment around us. #GROWOP2015

Thursday, April 23rd – Sunday, April 26th, 2015 | Thurs. 11am-8pm, Fri. 11am-10pm, Sat. and Sun. 11am-5pm | Opening Reception: Friday, April 24th, 2015 | $10

For all Grow Op events and parties see our Grow Op event page.

Rebecca Houston’s practice engages with kinetic and interactive experiences of sculpture. Rebecca has also worked in the community arts for 20 years, with SKETCH Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth, Frontier College Beat the Street and The South Riverdale Community Development Institute. She is currently completing her MFA at York University.

Cut Twice is a collection of jointed, kinetic building blocks made from reclaimed and new 2×4’s; matter that has refused to be refuse. The persistence of matter and the insistence that life will go on, that garbage will not go away are both celebrated and lamented as a demented pile of reaching, writhing and stressed-out lumber grows and undulates through the hotel’s public space.

Gladstone Hotel is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Gladstone Grow Op, a five day exhibition celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art and place making under the theme: culture of landscape. Grow Op 2015 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices within the vibrant setting of Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood. Grow Op, as one of the most intriguing annual exhibitions in Toronto, encourages a wide range of perspectives and dialogues around landscape and place; challenging our understanding of nature and the built environment around us. #GROWOP2015

Thursday, April 23rd – Sunday, April 26th, 2015 | Thurs. 11am-8pm, Fri. 11am-10pm, Sat. and Sun. 11am-5pm | Opening Reception: Friday, April 24th, 2015 | $10

For all Grow Op events and parties see our Grow Op event page.

Amanda White is an interdisciplinary Toronto-based artist and a PhD student in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Her current body of work investigates relationships between people and plants. Teresa Carlesimo is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of placelessness, and socially and environmentally responsible urbanization.

PARKhive is a mobile archive greenhouse traveling around Toronto and distributing seedlings grown from seeds collected in the city’s parks. PARKhive aims to educate visitors about the urban canopy, local flora and the history of city parks, while encouraging citizen engagement in the development of green space.

Gladstone Hotel is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Gladstone Grow Op, a five day exhibition celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art and place making under the theme: culture of landscape. Grow Op 2015 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices within the vibrant setting of Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood. Grow Op, as one of the most intriguing annual exhibitions in Toronto, encourages a wide range of perspectives and dialogues around landscape and place; challenging our understanding of nature and the built environment around us. #GROWOP2015

Thursday, April 23rd – Sunday, April 26th, 2015 | Thurs. 11am-8pm, Fri. 11am-10pm, Sat. and Sun. 11am-5pm | Opening Reception: Friday, April 24th, 2015 | $10

For all Grow Op events and parties see our Grow Op event page.

Studio for Landscape Culture is a research-based practice concerned with the connection between culture and ecology in the medium of the landscape. Based in Seattle, Vancouver and Toronto, Jasmeen and Yi are both landscape designers whose work focuses on the memory and creation of resilient ecologies in the urban realm.

Though imperceptible to the human ear, plants emit sounds when undergoing physiological processes. These “voices” differ based on anatomy and habitat, changing over the course of a day, week, month, and year. Within the context of a black oak savannah, experience a complete acoustic encounter that aims to illuminate the nuances and complexities of this ecosystem through the voices of its vegetative community.

Gladstone Hotel is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Gladstone Grow Op, a five day exhibition celebrating innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape, gardens, art and place making under the theme: culture of landscape. Grow Op 2015 will facilitate a cross-disciplinary forum across a broad range of creative practices within the vibrant setting of Toronto’s West Queen West neighbourhood. Grow Op, as one of the most intriguing annual exhibitions in Toronto, encourages a wide range of perspectives and dialogues around landscape and place; challenging our understanding of nature and the built environment around us. #GROWOP2015

Thursday, April 23rd – Sunday, April 26th, 2015 | Thurs. 11am-8pm, Fri. 11am-10pm, Sat. and Sun. 11am-5pm | Opening Reception: Friday, April 24th, 2015 | $10

For all Grow Op events and parties see our Grow Op event page.