THE THOUSANDTH TOWER
Our First project of HIGHRISE, an exploration of life in global vertical urban peripheries, is about to premiere. If you are near or around Toronto, please join us… Toronto is a city of more than 1000...
View Article1000th TOWER UPDATE
Lots has happened since we came out with The Thousandth Tower documentary, told by residents in a Toronto Suburban Highrise. So… we’ve added an UPDATE chapter to the documentary itself! Find out...
View ArticleNEWS: TORONTO MIDDLE-CLASS NEIGHBOURHOODS SHRINKING
You may recall the significant influence that Professor David Hulchanski had on our HIGHRISE thinking. His groundbreaking 2007 research was called The Three Cities within Toronto. Using census data...
View ArticlePOVERTY IS VERTICAL – and the elevators are terrible
Toronto’s poverty is increasingly vertical according to a landmark United Way study, published last week. (In the context of the report’s release, I am interviewed about HIGHRISE in this week’s issue...
View ArticleHIGHRISE DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP PROJECT
So much of life in the global highrise is hidden from public view, behind concrete walls. Even more invisible are the virtual/internet lives of highrise residents. So what is digital connectivity like...
View ArticleONE MILLIONth TOWER: LIVE
One Millionth Tower has gone live — and not just on the web. Here’s some pix from recent live appearances: LIVE AT THE GLADSTONE HOTEL Last week, we celebrated our new web-documentary One Millionth...
View ArticleONE MILLION COMMUTERS
Our HIGHRISE documentary, One Millionth Tower, has re-incarnated into a public art project that reaches 1.3 million subway commuters daily in Toronto, Canada. 6 short videos adapted from the...
View ArticleLIVE RADIO BROADCAST: ONE MILLION LISTENERS
Toronto’s most popular radio program, CBC Radio Metro Morning, is “going HIGHRISE.” They’ll be broadcasting live from the site of the NFB HIGHRISE project, a Toronto apartment building, where we’ve...
View ArticleGIRLS LEARNING CODE at HIGHRISE
It’s the Next-Gen participatory media project at HIGHRISE: girls learning computer code. They’re building websites and telling their own stories. It’s future web-developers in the making, on site at...
View Articlefrom one HIGHRISE to another
We at HIGHRISE just screened our documentary One Millionth Tower outdoors, at a festival celebrating another highrise neighbourhood. In One Millionth Tower, highrise residents re-imagine their...
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