OCADU Graduate Programs: In-person + online #SystemsThinking Ontario with @redesign. Description of Structured Dialogic Design, intro to Logosofia software for collective inquiry and decision-making. Applied by #SuLynnMyat in Participatory Technology Assessment of AI. (Toronto)

Ada Slaight Galleries: Mounted on wall, #JudithLibrach (2026) Constructs, rusted imprints of hand-crocheted doilies on commercial steel. COL LAB, OCADU Sustainable Colour Lab sources pigments and materials from local sites. Bridges art, design, science, technology. (Toronto)

Ignite Gallery: Arrangement of 6 photo prints, #BenJanssen (2026) The Table Dreams Far From Home. Part of the Alter / Altar exhibition, personal history becomes shared ceremony. Overhead shots of table settings carefully placed. (OCAD U, McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20261021

Ignite Gallery: Foreground #ChanceShermet (2023) Adderstone (Portal) plywood on granite pebbles, acrylic mirrored + transparent. Background #BaharDaee (2025) Amidst Wounds is red bandages + dog tag, (2025) World in the Dark is black bandages with mirror. Alter/Alter exhibition.

Dim Sum King: Lowkong Society Fall Festival late for Harvest Moon, approaching Hunter's Moon not in Chinese tradition. Friends celebrated recent engagement announcement for son. Two karaoke songs in English language energized attendees. (Dundas Street West, Toronto) 20261017

Tahini's Dundas Street East: Participating in National Shawarma Day, orders of bowls of rice with chicken and with falafel, requested mild. Direct in-person order with cashier for special price, not app. Lineup expectation 30-minute wait didn't take that long. (Toronto) 20261015

SDM Coxwell: Covid vaccine then flu shot, one after the other. Covered under Ontario health care, pre-empting otherwise serious respiratory illness. Directed to wait 15 minutes before leaving, slow walking aisles led to purchases. (Shoppers Drug Mart, Coxwell Avenue, Toronto)

Riverside neighbourhood: Licensed technician connecting new gas range to outlet repositioned when old stove removed. Four days since return home without kitchen functioning. Backsplash tile not yet installed, fittings still loose, another week before cooking resumes. (Toronto)

Matty Eckler Rec Centre: Intrigued by Kids Vote Weekend in parallel with advance polls for municipal election. Candidates for Trees for Schools: Basswood, Paper Birch, Red Oak, Sugar Maple and White Pine. Nonlinear way of educating youth about voting process. (Toronto) 20261011

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site: Full scale replica of HD-4 (Hydrodome Number 4), fastest boat in world at 70 mph in 1919. Designed and built by Alexander Graham Bell and Frederick Walker "Casey" Baldwin. Legacy of aviation pioneers in Canada. (Baddeck, NS) 20261010

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site: Replica of study of Alexander Graham Bell, including a day bed for working late. Summer home for the scientist from 1886 to 1922. Designated historic site in 1952, artifacts donated by family in 1955. (Baddeck, Nova Scotia) 20261010

Eltuek Arts Centre: Three archival inkjet prints, Robert Bean (2026) Crow #1, Crow #2, Crow #4. Part of the Lines of Flight exhibition exploring birds in historic North End and Ashby neighbourhoods. Featured in Celtic Colours festival. (Sydney, Nova Scotia) 20261010

Open Hearth Park: Over remediated tar ponds, 30-foot Rudolf Henninger (2013) New Explorations is topped four figures facing compass points. Waste from coke ovens lack sludge, largest hazardous site. Instead of toxic, engineers solidified, layered, capped in-situ. (Sydney, NS)

Open Hearth Park: Commemorating industrial history, Douglas Bamford (2013) Steel Making architectural ceramic wall relief. Former site of Sydney Steel Plant, from 1901. Expanded by a variety of companies until purchased by Province in 1967, demolished in 2001. (Sydney, NS)

Fortress of Louisbourg: Landside view of Frederic Gate, on the north shore facing the Royal Battery. Pillory post with iron collar to publically humiliate minor crimes. Chilly day required shopping for extra warmth. (Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia) 20261006

Fortress of Louisbourg: The King's Bastion Barracks more luxurious Governor's Apartment, near livestock pen for secure supply of meat. The soldiers slept nearby, married men in village with family. Fortress built to withstand navy sieges, fell to landside attack. (Nova Scotia)

Fraser's Mills Fish Hatchery: Side trip to hatchery built in 1928 by provincial government, gravity-fed from South River.  Water in pen dark, ripples at surface due to trout breaching in crowd.  In fall, some fish transferred to replenishing stock for anglers.  (St. Andrews, NS)

Berlin Wall Remnants: Alongside walking trail in pollinator meadow, six segments of Berlin Wall acquired by local entrepreneur in 1990s, brought to Truro in 2000. From main street, moved to campus of Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Bible Hill (Cobequid Trail, Bible Hill, NS)

Canadian Immigration Museum: Guided tour of Pier 21 facility, sitting on benches where 100 million immigrants from 1928 to 1971 waited, disembarking from ships. First step health check from European origins, for illnesses picked up during rough voyages. (Halifax, NS) 20261004

Dalhousie Art Gallery: Continuing artwork #AdamaDelphineFawundu (2021-2026) And it Don't Stop ... Brooklyn, Toronto, Kinshasa, Luneburg .. And the story continues in Halifax. A tapestry of photographs woven together, suspended from ceiling. A history of Black life. (Halifax)