Talk
DesignTO Talks: They Feed Off Buildings
Presented as part of the DesignTO Festival with the Goethe-Institut, the Consulate General of Germany in Toronto & Harbourfront Centre and supported by Bulthaup Toronto.
Luisa Rubisch and Rasa Weber are guests of the Goethe-Institut.
Luisa Rubisch and Rasa Weber of the Berlin-based design and architecture collective They Feed Off Buildings (TFOB) speak about the process of creating ‘Urban Terrazzo’, a composite material that uses architectural debris to pay homage to demolished buildings and their histories.
TFOB is a design and architecture collective from Berlin, which specializes in material research and design. The studio unites a team with expertise in design, material, architecture, film, and photography. Their performative design interventions explore a new perspective on architecture and its materiality. The project Urban Terrazzo, which travels through various cities in order to explore the given materials of architectural demolition, illustrates one of TFOB’s experiments in performative design. Whenever an old building has to be demolished or its core removed, an enormous amount of demolition waste is produced. What seems like a pile of rubble, which usually ends up in local landfills, can actually be the beginning of a great new material story.
Details
Toronto Harbourfront Studio Theatre
235 Queens Quay W
ON M5J 2G8 Toronto
Price: Tickets: $21 General | $17 Senior, Student
Tickets can be purchased through Harbourfront Centre