OCAD University: Talk by #CoryDoctorow on Jailbreaking Canada event, after second day of 3-day playshop with graduate students. Advocating that Canada should disenshittify our technology from corporate giants. Bad anti-circumvention laws mean we're blocked from modifying devices we own. (Toronto)

Sharp Centre for Design: At 6:30pm, city is now totally dark, I hadn't previously noticed the orange lighting on the pixelated bottom of the tabletop upper floors. Architected by Will Alsop in 2004, winner of a Royal Institute of British Architects Worldwide Award. (OCAD University, Toronto)

Pioneer Village Station, southeast entrance building: Large corten steel lighting fixture half illuminated, material matching the upper exterior outside. One of two entrance buildings by architect Will Alsop, opened in 2017. First time passing through this stop. (Steeles Avenue West, Toronto)

Leslie Grove Gallery: Screen print of decaying leaf, #GunnelHag (2025) You Will Find Hidden Treasures Where Least Expected, cotton fabric overprinted. Ecology will see life at end of season renewed in spring. Part of the Greenbelt exhibition of #ConnectionsFibreArtists. (Toronto) 20251123

Leslie Grove Gallery: Wall hanging swinging with room air currents, #BevWhite (2025) Blue Skies of cotton fabric, machine piecing, hand applique. Part of the Greenbelt exhibition of #ConnectionsFibreArtists, last hour of show. Ontario landscape and waterways with skies and rain. (Toronto) 20251123

Web video of Pacing Changes: Seeing Living Systems as Rhythms for #SCiO Finland by #ZaidKhan, hosted by #JanneJKorhonen . Shift in #SystemsThinking from default spatial-static to more processual-dynamic perspective, multiple layers, differing paces coevolving.com/blogs/index....

Simcoe Park: Passing by on bike, motion of lights in park turned out to be informal Wotagei Lightstick Dancing training for group. Unofficial breakout from the Anime Revolution Toronto convention across the street, sharing fandom for Japanese culture. More participants in cosplay joined. (Toronto)

Corkin Gallery: Mythological reading needed for #LeopoldPlotek (1982) Eros and Psyche (Greek names). In Roman names, Cupid is an immortal with arrows who makes individuals fall in love, Anima is a mortal more beautiful than Aphrodite-Venus, visited by the the god at night. (Toronto)

Booth Avenue at Eastern Avenue: New traffic lights at south end of our street, foreshadowing a pedestrian crossing at Lakeshore Boulevard. For now, westbound vehicles on Lakeshore can turn northbound onto Booth Avenue, making westbound turn popular. We live on a section, that is quieter. (Toronto)

Riverside Neighbourhood: Quiet family dinner, a little later due to work schedules. Some birthday presents for DY ahead of date, with too much happening next month. Discussion on aesthetics of dance and music. (Riverside neighbourhood, Toronto, Ontario) 20251121

On appreciating temporality, the rise of chronos (clock time) in science via Albert Einstein comes with the decline of kairos (felt time) by Henri Bergson. > In The Physicist and the Philosopher ... #JimenaCanales tells ... rift between science and the humanities www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztru...

Newtonbrook East: Chaotic potluck early dinner, with arrivals through afternoon rush hour, out-of-town relatives, and minimal coordination on menu.  Sushi, fish, tofu, pizza, soup, sourdough bread.  Concluded with elder birthday cake, are we still counting years?  (North York) 20251120

Queen Street West dead end at Victoria Street: Just outside St. Michael's Hospital, acoustic shelter encloses crane for Queen Station, allowing crews to work extended hours. Ontario Line train platform 40 metres below, under existing TTC station. Street reopening in 2027, trains in 2031. (Toronto)

Riverside-Leslieville Station Construction: View of Queen Street East south side, from the west, new bridge where GO Trains regularly run. The old piers and abutments to be removed have 1926 stamped into the concrete. Strange Street to the south is still blocked. (Toronto) 20251117

OCADU Graduate Programs: Large turnout #SystemsThinking Ontario, @biancawylie.com and #SuLynnMyat on tech governance, mod by #ZaidKhan. First outline on Technology Assessments society shaping its desired future. Complemented by criticism of AI policies where social inequities perpetuated. (Toronto)

Full House Chinese Cuisine: Dim sum with father, on fly-through trip delayed 12 hours due to air traffic controllers unpaid in USA, then restrictions at Pearson Airport. Portions reported larger than in Houston, better prices. They'll be back in a week's time, after reunion in Hong Kong. (Toronto)

Evergreen Brick Works: Evening music jam in the Memory Garden of the @spaceforgrief.bsky.social installation.  Experimental improvisations, with players following each other intuitively.  Feels like the 1960s, with better technique.  (Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario) 20251109

Entertainment District: Housewarming party with bobarista mixing choice of 3 types of tea with tapioca pearls or coconut jelly. Slightly larger apartment in same building, so move was easy. Unit was infamous for a balcony fire in May 2023, new tenant benefits from fresh renovation. (Toronto)

Pape Village: Family dinner organized amongst hectic schedules. Diningroom table now moved in front of fireplace, next to small livingroom on oddly shape main floor. New feline of one week is a younger energetic black cat still adjusting to adoption. (Toronto, Ontario)

Tapestry: Asian jazz fusion by #DennimQuack led by #DennisKwok, assembling #JayYoo guitar, #HiroSuzuki guitar, #JenLo keys, #CarloSantoDomingo #curlow #bass, #JonCatanus drums, #DanielleSum percussion for gig. Featuring music of 1970s Japanese band Casiopea. (Toronto) 20251106 youtu.be/enBedqy4XR4

Tapestry: Asian jazz fusion band with identity of #,DuckSociety led by #MinhHoang keys assembles #PatrickSmith sax, #JayYoo guitar, #JenLo keys, #CarloSantoDomingo bass, #JonChiong-Catanus, #MilesJohnson #milesjmusic percussion+sampler for gig. (Toronto) youtu.be/kzhMAMkB4IA

Evergreen Brick Works: First sLab Technique Workshop, three hours with Method Collective on Pacing for Grief.  Included #ZiyanHossain, #FranRawlings, #CallaLee, #KellyOkamura, #SamahKamalmaz, #AlisonClarke, #AileenNandy, #ZaidKhan, #GaryMetcalf, #DanEng, #JuliusLindsay.  Laid common foundation.

Evergreen Brick Works: Pilot Systems Outing to @spaceforgrief.bsky.social met inside, then outside, and concluded with body movement dance led by #DJMeTime.  In space outside of classroom, each participant added a step to each round of the sequence.  Not the usual #SystemsThinking Ontario style

Wok & Roast Restaurant: Introductory lunch with #GaryMetcalf to meet #AntonyUpward and #StephenDavies. Stitching together variety of journeys in systems approaches in practice. Discussing trend of more graduate courses being switched from on-campus to online. (Toronto)

Magic Taste of China: On time flights enabled casual Xinjiang cuisine for sLab discussion with #PeterScott, @garymetcalf.com, #ZaidKhan, #DavidIng, #SamahKamalmaz, #RobertoPires, #GregVanAlstyne. Detailed history on Banathy Conversations, should start formal planning soon for May (Toronto)

Centre for Social Innovation: Second CSI Constellation Summit, reframing as a Collaborative Infrastructure Organization. Groups of 2 becoming 4 to generate proposals for larger clusters on where self-interests can converge on collective impact. First event since vacating CSI Annex. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Guest speakers #MauriceGordon musician, #AnnaRoseTran designer, #LukeAnderson engineer #StopGap, on Colliding of Social Enterprise and Creative(s) Sector, moderated by #Peter Scott. Related journeys of businesses and current challenges. Class teams 149 students business models

Evergreen Brick Works: Panel #ErikaByres #MountPleasantGroup, #ConnieEllis #EllisDon, #SusanBlight #YorkUniversity, #JuliusLindsay #PrismaticProject, moderator #ZiyanHossain #MethodCollective on Hidden Currents: How Grief Shapes Systems Around Us. @spaceforgrief.bsky.social, #GoodMourningFestival

Evergreen Brick Works: Welcome by #JohnMonahan of #MountPleasantGroup to Hidden Currents: How Grief Shapes the Systems Around Us. Part of #GoodMourningFestival, @spaceforgrief.bsky.social installation by #FranRawlings, #CallaLee, #ZiyanHossain. Story of cemeteries as child when relatives came.

University of Toronto Art Centre: Snow fence #MichaelBelmore (2025) Turbulent Air / Turbulent Water made of steel and wood.  Shapes movement rather than stopping wind.  In background, #ArtHunter (2023) Controlled Burn at Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah mounds, prairie oak savannah.

University of Toronto Art Centre: Triptych of three digital prints, #BUSHGallery (#GabrielleLHirondelleHill, #PeterMorin, #Tanya Willard) (2014) Hashtag, (2014) The Possibility of an Eclipse of Colonialism, (2014) Rez-idency. Part of Earthwork exhibition, about work that we do with and for earth.

OCADU Graduate Gallery:  Yet untitled work-in-progress #TavleenLall (2025) glass sculptures mounted on wall, animated with video projection.  Master's thesis work explores glass-soul as eternal light, human form as vessel for inner journeys.  Part of #OpeningPortals collection. (Toronto)

OCADU Graduate Gallery: In dark room, yet untitled work-in-progress #LivQiu (2025) lighting stalk illuminates corner three-dimensionally. Group show of #OpeningPortals artworks towards master's theses. Short one-week appearance looks forward to future completion. (Toronto, Ontario) 20251030

OCADU Graduate Programs: Visitiors to OCAD U Lab Crawl 2025 were redirected to see the sLab in room 711, new digs. We just had our first meeting there yesterday, so the archives in storage have yet to be moved in. Lots happening with the reinvigoration activities in October and November. (Toronto)

The Doctor’s House: Rare occasion for family to dress up, for wedding in family of lifelong friends. Parents seated with associates of the robotic team, younger adults with peer their age. Delicious dinner dodging dietary restrictions, dancing after dark. (Kleinberg, Ontario) 20251025

The Doctor's House: Large sfoglia, + traditional stacked wedding cake, signals Italian-style wedding. Brought in by family, standard higher than venue. Original house built 1867 occupied by series of doctors, noted as haunted, but maybe not the expanded banquet halls and chapel. (Kleinberg)

Brick Street Bakery Leslieville: At dusk, sign now Belinda's Bakeshop, storefront changed, windows blacked out, canopy lighting over sidewalk. Directions to MOAK, #MemoryOfAKiller, a tv series with #PatrickDempsey + #MichaelImperioli, remake of a 2022 movie starring #LiamNeeson. (Toronto)

Workshop on #PacingChanges for #InnovationFactoryHamilton, #StephanieHolko charting rhythms guided by #ZaidKhan + #SamahKamalmaz. Technique hand-drawing on slides, shown on overhead projector 1950s technology. Hosted by #CITM, small business invitees learned temporal perspective on issues + timings.

OCAD University: Panel at #RSDSymposium with #RuthSchmidt, #DavidIng, #CherylHsu on Transdisciplinary Philosophy, moderated by #VictorUdoewa. Wide ranging topics on Rizz, Pacing Changes, and Transversal Design. A session title with philosophy facilitates cross-discussions. (Toronto) 20251018

OCAD University: Panel with #MelanieGoodchild, #WilliamSutherland, #GeraldMidgley, #LuigiFerrara, #LesleyAnnNoel, at #RSDSymposium, on The Co-Evolution of Regenerative Networks, mod by #PerinRuttonsha. Recurrent points of view on paradigms. Personal histories recounted to systemic design. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Plenary by #PeterHaywardJones as conference chair for #RSDSymposium. Reflective on years 2008-2023 years at #OCADU, to part-time on appointment at Tec Monterrey. Long duration design as temporary communities that might evolve and/or carry on after founders have moved on. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Workshop at #RSDSymposium on Where Do Systemic Designers Go To [BLANK]? led by #GregVanAlstyne, #PeterScott, #ZaidKhan, #DavidIng. Wide range of international participants on #SystemicDesign home regions. Related directions for #sLab, now under reinvigoration. (Toronto, Ontario)

OCAD University: Panel at #RSDSymposium on with #ZaidKhan, #SamahKamalmaz, #PerinRuttonsha, #RyanMurphy, #SeannaDavidson, on New Design Leadership in Complexity. Some controversy on humbling stance for designers towards non-intervention interpreted as non-action in conditions of urgency. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Plenary talk at #RSDSymposium @rachellilley.bsky.social on ongoing teaching + research. Embodied awareness + emotion in systemic interventions involve mindfulness, behaviour change, + somatic inquiry. Gathering learnings, current focus on action, someday a book. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Plenary at #RSDSymposium by #TobiasLuthe with Systemic Design Navigational Wheel of Inquiry depicted on large map on floor used in practice, projected on large screen for visibility. Non-intervening means befriending uncertainty and letting patterns surface relationally. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Plenary talk at #RSDSymposium by #GeraldMidgley refreshes orientation towards systems thinking, as certification processes in the UK have led to narrower definitions of systemic methods. Revises the DSRP framework from 2008 original response in original Cabrera article. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Story of journey into academia by #MelanieGoodchild at #RSDSymposium, channelling wisdom of elders into Relational #SystemsThinking. Now by West et. al (2024) doi.org/10.1080/2639... at indigenous-kinship relationalities and systemic-analytical relationalities. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Systemic design workshop on "REmarket: Systems Changes Learning in Waste Management at the Community Level" by #KellyOkamura at #RSDSymposium. Took circular economy idea local, growing event in city. Brought samples of goods redistributed, real thing would too big (Toronto)

OCAD University: Systemic design workshop on "Camping and More: A Simple Case Study Workshop on Applying Stafford Beer's Viable System Model" by #AllennaLeonard at #RSDSymposium. Mapped story of retail store onto five systems. Some audience members new to cybernetics. (Toronto)

OCAD University: Systemic design workshop at #RSDSymposium on "Why Not Wait? What is the pace of your change?" led by #DanEng + #EvgenyaNee. Warm up exercise of participants into line from systems novices to experts. Broke up into three groups to cover half of hub and four spokes. (Toronto)