Ireland Park is the principal memorial to the Irish Famine experience in Toronto. It is a bridge from the past to the future, remembering the 38,000 people that came through Toronto in the 1840’s. figforty’s role was to design 3 interactive terminals situated in an Irish limestone ‘vault’ in the west end of the Park. The terminals provide information on …
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forty things to help describe what we are about and what we’re striving for:
- Be bold.
- Listen.
- Always leave a little space for the unexpected.
- Strive to be “super normal”. (see Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa).
- Exercise empathy.
- Be exuberent.
- Avoid excess.
- Make microloans. (see Kiva)
- Be passionate about what you do.
- Don’t drink bad coffee.
- Ride your bike.
- Build one as soon as possible…whatever it is!
- Be aware of your own biases.
- Don’t …
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