Joy Charbonneau

Joy aims to create intelligent architecture and design. Her work is thoughtful and inventive – it is often her motivation to provoke curiosity and delight.

Joy has lived and worked in Germany and Holland and now resides in Toronto. Her work has been shown in various publications including Wallpaper and Azure. She works with Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects in Toronto, and frequently collaborates with Derek McLeod Design.
 
Shaun Moore, Partner, MADE

Moore, a furniture designer by training, is partner in MADE, aretailer dedicated to promoting independent Canadian Design. MADE also produces an annual design exhibition, Radiant Dark.
 
Katherine Morley

Katherine Morley is co-curator and producer of the multidisciplinary design exhibit “Capacity”. She is an industrial designer, whose work can be seen throughout Toronto design week.
 
Julie Nicholson

Julie Nicholson graduated from the Queensland College of Art. She lived and worked in the UK for 12 years managing art galleries and design stores and absorbing the influences of conceptual art and installation works. Living in Toronto since 2001, she continues to merge her art and design interests. She is one half of the collaborative design and curatorial partnership MADE.
Jeremy Vandermeij

Jeremy is also the Co-Producer of TO DO. He is excited that TO DO will bring together all the fabulous events happening during the Toronto design festival.

During the rest of the year he is partner and co-founder of Public Displays of Affection, a local community engaged design enterprise, Creative Director at the Gladstone Hotel and runs his own creative generalist practice. He also is a dodgeball enthusiast.

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Deborah Wang

Deborah is an independent curator, designer and educator with a background in art and architecture.  She is a co-curator of Come Up To My Room and a co-founder of FEAST Toronto, a series of community dinners and micro-funding events supporting local art and design. Deborah also works in architecture and contemporary art,  teaches design studio at Ryerson University, and occasionally makes work as one half of the collaborative Elsworthy Wang. Deborah is older than she looks.
Christina Zeidler

Christina Zeidler is a film and video artist with over twenty titles in distribution, which have shown internationally at festivals and appeared on television. In 2003 Christina was named one of Toronto’s 10 Best Filmmakers by Cameron Bailey, and won the Best Canadian Media award at the 2004 Images Film Festival. Christina has been the Developer and President of the  Gladstone Hotel since 2003, focusing on the renovation and revitalization of the building through a community based approach. She was the creator of the Artist-Designed Room Project (inviting 37 local artist/designers to implement individually designed hotel rooms) and co-curator of CUTMR, with Pamila Matharu since its inception in 2004.