Sam Bloch

Dorsa Jalalian

Fadi Masoud

Ilana Altman

Public Launch: Cool by Design

The Bentway works to ignite the urban imagination, using the city as site, subject, and canvas. Anchored under Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway and guiding its complex future, The Bentway is a growing public space, and much more. It is a new type of civic organization: an independent charity and a not-for-profit, powered by vital partnerships with the City of Toronto, residents, supporters, artists, creatives, city-builders, and dreamers. The Bentway is a catalyst rooted in experimentation, demonstration, and regeneration; leading a creative movement to re-imagine the opportunities of urban spaces.Since Phase 1 of The Bentway – under the Gardiner from Strachan Ave to Fort York Blvd – opened in 2018, it has proven to be a vital public space, backyard park, cultural platform, connector for the western Waterfront corridor and a demonstration of what is possible. In partnership with the City of Toronto, The Bentway is creating a network of public spaces, developing a cohesive vision for wayfinding and reconnecting the waterfront to the downtown core.Visit thebentway.ca and follow @thebentway on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram for details about upcoming programming and projects.www.thebentway.ca

The Bentway

Explore the power of shade in public space at this free public talk, co-presented by The Bentway and DIALOG.

DIALOG

Celebrate <a href="https://thebentway.ca/publication/cool-by-design/" title="https://thebentway.ca/publication/cool-by-design/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cool by Design</a>, The Bentway’s recently released report that brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the vital role of shade in public spaces and examines how design, culture, and community engagement can help rapidly warming northern cities respond to heat.Building upon findings from the City of Toronto’s <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/planning-studies-initiatives/thermal-comfort-study/" title="https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/planning-studies-initiatives/thermal-comfort-study/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Thermal Comfort Guidelines</a>, developed in partnership with DIALOG and Buro Happold, and insights from The Bentway's 2025 <a href="https://thebentway.ca/program/sun-shade/" title="https://thebentway.ca/program/sun-shade/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sun/Shade</a> public art program, speakers will examine shade as essential public health and social infrastructure. The Bentway’s unique site beneath Toronto’s longest urban canopy, the Gardiner Expressway offers practical lessons for the city’s future, showing how artists, designers, and everyday residents can help shape a cooler, more connected urban life.The event will feature a panel discussion that brings together leading experts—landscape architect Fadi Masoud, environmental journalist and author Sam Bloch, and associate and senior urban designer at DIALOG, Dorsa Jalalian—to place the report’s ideas into dialogue. The panel will be moderated by CEO of The Bentway Ilana Altman.This talk is presented in collaboration with <a href="https://dialogdesign.ca/" title="https://dialogdesign.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DIALOG</a>, whose leadership in climate-responsive public-space design research helped shape both the publication and seasonal programming.Read the report Cool by Design: The Power of Shade in Public Space: <a href="https://thebentway.ca/publication/cool-by-design/" title="https://thebentway.ca/publication/cool-by-design/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://thebentway.ca/publication/cool-by-design/</a>If you can no longer make it, please cancel your ticket in Eventbrite so we may accommodate others.

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