Future City
In partnership with MASS LBP, a trailblazing public consultation firm, Future City will bring together a panel of 44 randomly selected Toronto residents, one for each city ward, to explore the implications of growing polarization in Toronto in the fall of 2011. In a series of sessions over the course of a month, the panelists will learn about and discuss the three very different cities within Toronto to produce, at the end of the consultation, a series of recommendations that will be made public.
Future City will kick off at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2011 , in an independent project called Public Display of Democracy: The Three Cities Dialogue .
Future City is part of Deeper Dialogues, made possible by the generous support of the Metcalf Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Grants and Citizenship and Immigration Canada through Inter-Action.
Deeper Dialogues has been made possible by the Metcalf Foundation.
Metcalf is 50 years old this year, and to mark this anniversary it has made a small number of special one-time grants designed to celebrate and strengthen our city. Over its history, the Foundation has made sustained contributions to the vitality of our urban life, most recently by focusing its efforts on enhancing the vibrancy of the professional performing arts, addressing issues of poverty, and ensuring the ecological integrity of our natural and working lands. Building on this tradition, and its long and close relationship with Toronto, Metcalf invited a small group of organizations to give their best city-building idea. Metcalf was and is interested in the potential inherent in unleashing ideas not possible under ordinary circumstances. How “city building” was defined was entirely up to them, Metcalf asked only that each organization’s approach reflect their unique mission and contributions to our landscape.
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