displays of community
Academic work, University of Waterloo
Hamilton, Ontario
2023
On the site that was once the Hamilton Brick Works, Displays of Community aims to bring communities together through art, events, and exhibitions. The project encourages community initiative through a large maker-space and artist studio, indoor and outdoor exhibition space and archives, open gardening plots, and a café. The indoor exhibition space acts as large multi-purpose room able to be modified depending on the needs of the community. Book, display, and archive cases sit on the original tracks in the large building, which were once used to move brick throughout the space. For large events, they can all be pushed to one end, creating an almost uninterrupted floor. Archives can be moved out of the way for exhibitions. The space can be adjusted to fit any ratio of exhibition, archives, and community events, while most of the time being all three.