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Pre-assessment

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Mindfulness Break

Masterclass:

Virtual Job Shadowing Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) April 8, 2021 Note: This session will be recorded for internal purposes

Peer Facilitators: Eileen Xiao Jeffrey Lee Industry Representatives: Susan Speigel Christie Mills

Land Acknowledgement "Toronto is in the 'Dish With One Spoon Territory’. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect."

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Agenda: ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Icebreaker Introduction Career Paths - 10min Design Process - 10min Path to Licensure - 5min Mindfulness Break Breakout Room Activity - 15min ○ Importance of Effective Client Communication

● Q&A ● Concluding Remarks

Icebreaker: Let’s get to know one another!

Jamboard Link

Your Peer Facilitators

Eileen Xiao

Jeffrey Lee

Peer Facilitator 4th Year Architectural Science

Peer Facilitator 5th Year Aerospace Engineering

Learning Outcomes As a result of the job shadow, students will be able to: 1. Understand the core missions, values and culture of a given organization 2. Make connections between what they are learning in the classroom and practical application in the workplace 3. Identify core components of a job they are shadowing, including skills required, day to day functions, long-term and short-term outcomes, and success metrics 4. Discuss approaches for thriving in a professional environment

1 min

Susan Speigel PRESIDENT

My name is Susan Speigel I am an Architect I have been practicing in Toronto for over 30 years The SSA design studio rooted in community building and innovative thinking to push forward actionable projects.

As SVP on the OAA Council I can push my ideals forward from the top down as well as the bottom up of activism.

I taught at the IwB for 10 years.

I am a Change Agent in the current wave of new practices which blends Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism, Social Activism, Systems Design, Community Based Design, Environmental Ecology, Design Research, Teaching and Writing. My work crosses many disciplines. I call what we design.

1 min

Christie Mills EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM

Christie Mills is an architect and was recently appointed to serve as the Registrar for the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA). She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture. She actively practised for 15 years and was a Principal with Moriyama & Teshima Architects (MTA) before commencing work with the OAA in 2017. As Registrar since March 2020, she leads a team to help the OAA meet its regulatory mandate and carry out the legislated Objects of the Architects Act.

10 min

Career Paths

HOW DO I THINK I am an Activist Architect I am always questioning I cast a very wide net to look at the whole picture and the biggest view I can imagine WHAT DO I DO I build inside and outside. Inside users are only 10% of the user while the Public Realm, the outside, the relationship of the building to the street matters 90% more WHY DO I TEACH (George Brown College) As an Architect with a social conscience, I ask big questions that I answer with good work in the real world I believe in a younger generation of thinkers and makers WHAT I BELIEVE - RADICAL THINKING In order to rise above ordinary thought we have to pull our presumptions apart and put them back together making outrageous programming in inspirational products

OUTRAGEOUS THINKING

LEADS TO..

RADICAL (or innovative) DESIGN STRATEGIES

"EXISTING” infrastructure RADICALLY RETHOUGHT = NEW BRILLIANCE

Radical Thinking = Outrageous Programming = JOY

Turned every negative challenge into a positive

• Retail at grade • Transparent pedestrian access from the front to the rear • Car entrance monitored to respect

1111 LINCOLN STREET MIAMI Herzog & de Meuron

pedestrian traffic • Condo and housing at upper levers • Event spaces • Some parking • Viewing platform for whole city skyline

Radical Representation

Impossible situations are often great opportunities, brilliantly disguised Centre of the Magnet

10 min

Design Process Malvern Early-On

Site Measurements

Site Visits

Precedents

Concept and Schematic Programs

Sections

Concept Sketches

Scheduling

Colour Palette

Materiality

Material Variation

Material Variation

Detailing and Construction Document

Drawings → Reality

5 min

Paths to Licensure

2 min

Questions?

To everyone who is attending the session, we will send a follow-up email with a takeaway resource document

Importance of Effective Client Communication Jamboard link

Breakout Room Instructions - Importance of Effective Client Communication

6 min in Breakout room

STEP 1: Put into 1 of 2 breakrooms, an OAA member in the room will describe a predetermined object (will not disclose the name of the object) STEP 2: While the “Client” describes the object, the student will do their best to create the drawing through Jamboard replicating the object, creating one final drawing (designate one person to draw and one person to present). You will have a total of 5 mins to draw STEP 3: All students will return to the breakout room The correct image will be displayed by the Peer Facilitators

2 min

Importance of Client Communication

2 min

Final Image

Post-assessment

Zoom Poll should be popping up soon! Thanks

5 min

Q&A To everyone who is attending the session, we will send a follow-up email with a takeaway resource document

Thank you!

Contact us: Peerfacilitator@ryerson.ca Website:

www.ryerson.ca/pnp