For a description of sessions and activities taking place on the various conference days, please click on the date to find out what is taking place on each day, or simply scroll down to read complete conference happenings:
Toronto Collaboration Workshop - Sunday, October 25
Study Tours - Wednesday, October 28
Collaborative Dinner - Wednesday, October 28
Conference Day One - Thursday, October 29
Conference Day Two - Friday, October 30
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Toronto Collaboration Workshop, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
George Brown College School of Design - Institute Without Boundaries
230 Richmond Street East, Toronto
Facilitators: 
Cost: Free
Most collaborations start out as loosely defined explorations between interested parties. Then, there is often a period of time when ideas begin to form around a project before the details of it are ready to be enshrined in legally binding agreements. At this stage of development, it could be helpful to have an explicit statement of shared intent that sets out some ground rules or common understanding on how collaborators would like to work with each other. In considering the "unconference:format alongside this very specific need, the October 25th 'unConference' has transformed into the more purpose-driven 'Workshop' in order to provide feedback on a 'Toronto Collaboration Charter' (working-title). The Toronto Collaboration Charter will be further developed throughout the 3-day CP+S conference with input from conference delegates, and presented for reflection and ideally adoption, at the end of the conference on October 30th, so that conference delegates and workshop participants will have access to a practical collaboration tool at the end of the conference.
• Welcome, Objectives, Introductions
• Background and Context
• Vision for Collaboration Charter
• Purpose of the Charter
• Visualizing Success
• Next Steps
Note: If you have already registered for the unConference, your registration will be transfered to this Workshop.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Study Tours, various times and locations
Toronto is home to a rich array of cross-sector collaborations. Creative Places + Spaces Study Tours will give delegates an opportunity to see and hear first hand how Toronto's change-makers are re-thinking and re-inventing how projects are designed and delivered. Join us on a mobile learning experience to explore new collaborations and infrastructure models as well as emerging models of cultural, socio-scientific and civic practices. Click here to view complete descriptions and to register.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Collaborative Dinner, 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29TH
Watch for "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, Challenging the grey, matters!” artistic interventions and stings integrated throughout the program.
Lights, Camera, Collaboration! The CP+S On Location Video Spotlight Series peppered throughout the conference features cross-sector collaborations in communities of all sizes across Canada, conveying a wealth of information and inspiration that illustrate and animate collaborations from coast to coast. On Location series made possible thanks to the generous support of The Canada Council.
Today’s Collaboration Marketplace, sponsored by the Ontario Media Development Corporation, showcases stand-out examples of cross-sector collaboration. The Marketplace (as with the Video Spotlights above) illuminate the ways in which creative collaboration serves as a catalyst for community transformation, problem-solving, and idea generation.
8:00-8:45am Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:20 Welcoming Remarks
His Worship Mayor David Miller; Tim Jones,CEO, Artscape; MAUREEN LOWETH, President, George Brown College
9:20-10:15 Keynote SIR KEN ROBINSON
Collaboration Fuels Innovation: Business & Education in New Creative Economies
In a narrative that weaves together education, the arts, science, business and government, innovation expert Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for new approaches to developing the creative talents of all. He offers core ideas and techniques that will ensure innovation through collaboration is a habit rather than an accident, and take delegates to new levels of creative success.Sponsored by George Brown College
10:35-10:45 CP+S On Location – Video Spotlight: The Melbourne Laneways
Eleni Arbus, Independent Filmmaker on location in Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne’s laneways have experienced something of a renaissance over the last 10 years. So much so, that other Councils around the country are trying to replicate the activation formula by developing strategies to regenerate laneways in their own cities. But is this something easily emulated or is it the unique history of the laneways and Melbournian’s relationship to them that is the real reason behind their success?
10:45-11:40 Keynote RICHARD FLORIDA
Best-selling author and Professor of Business and Creativity at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, Richard Florida discusses the collaborative city in relation to the global shifts in our work, our values and our communities that are shaping the economies of the 21st century.
11:45-12:25pm Town Hall Panel SIR KEN ROBINSON and RICHARD FLORIDA, Moderated by SARA DIAMOND
1:30-1:35 CP+S On Location – Video Spotlight: The 21st Century Learning Toolkit
JASON LAPEYRE, Independent Filmmaker on location in Toronto, Ontario and Bigstone Cree Nation, Alberta
For over 100 years, the federal government of Canada oversaw the residential school system, under which aboriginal children were separated from their families, forbidden from speaking their indigenous languages, and taught that their culture was inferior to Western European culture. Nora Yellowknee of Bigstone Cree Nation in Northern Alberta attempts to repair the damage done by this legislated cultural genocide by collaborating with educators and organizations from mainstream Canadian culture. Yellowknee and her collaborators explain how they found an educational tool that respects the value system of aboriginal life.
1:35-2:35 Interative Panel & Screening National Film Board/St. Michael’s Hospital:
KATERINA CIZEK, Filmmaker-in-Residence at St. Michael’s Hospital; GERRY FLAHIVE, National Film Board, Senior Producer; DR. KATHERINE ROULEAU Assistant Professor, St-Michael’sHospital, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
What happens when a hospital and a filmmaker collaborate with homeless youth, medical staff, police officers and cyclists? In this pilot project, Katerina Cizek, is Filmmaker-in-Residence at St. Michael’s hospital, working with partners on the frontlines: doctors, nurses, researchers and patients. From local projects at the Inner City Health Unit, to global ones, FIR partners media with medicine in innovative ways. Highlights of the film will be shown and the panel will discuss the global innovations that emerged out of this collaborative effort to reach out to communities and put media in the hands of citizens – the agents of true social change.
2:35-2:40 CP+S On Location – Video Spotlight: Nerd Jam
MOIRA SIMPSON, Independent Filmmaker on location in Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver’s Design Nerds, through interdisciplinary collaboration and open-source resourcefulness, are creating pedal-powered contraptions to be deployed on Vancouver’s disused railway lines. This spotlight will explore their creative process as they brainstorm or “Nerd Jam” in a highly energized and supportive environment. Their retroromantic project is a celebration of the energy resident in the human body and spirit shared through the physical experience of pedaling their fantastical contraptions.
2:45-3:25 Visual Conversation TOM WUJEC
From back of the napkin sketches to high-fidelity, multi-touch interactive digital simulations, visual collaboration is the act of representing the normally invisible and intangible aspects of work into visual frameworks that establish shared contexts for team understanding and action. Autodesk’s Tom Wujec shares this emerging skill and highlights how you can use these techniques to address complex problems.
3:50-4:00 CP+S On Location – Video Spotlight: The Centre for Applied Genomics
MARS HORODYSKI, Independent Filmmaker on location in Toronto, Ontario
At the Centre for Applied Genomics a team of clinical geneticists, genetic counselors, paedeatricians, ethicists, epidemiologists and psychologists come together to provide an interdisciplinary, omprehensive approach to Autism research. Through their weekly roundtable discussions they discover connections in their work, by examining breakthroughs and questions in each other’s research.
4:00-4:50 Open-Access Science ALED EDWARDS Chief Executive of the Structural Genomics Consortium, Banbury Chair of Medical Research in the Banting and Best Dept. of Medical Research at the University of Toronto & PEKKA SINERVO, Senior V.P. Research, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in Conversation with ILSE TREUNICHT MaRS CEO
Director and CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium (Canada, Sweden, England) and structural biologist Aled Edwards is a passionate advocate of open-access collaboration in science. Backed by extensive international government, industry and charitable funding, the Consortium’s research describing the precise 3D structures of proteins associated with human disease is quickly made public in an open-access online format. The idea is to allow the best brains worldwide to fully probe — and, more often than not, rule out — potential drug targets in order to “de-risk” what he describes as our current costly and inefficient approach to early-stage drug discovery.
4:55-5:25 Conference Synthesis Day One
Collaboration and the Science of Selfishness: How Economists Explain the Rise of Collaboration in the Creative Economy AJAY AGRAWAL Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Director of the Program on Innovation and Creative Industries at MPI
Why do innovators and other creative individuals collaborate? Why do even self-centered, wealth-maximizing, hyper-rational profiteers collaborate? Why have collaboration patterns changed so dramatically even though basic economics has not? What methods can cities, neighborhoods, organizations, and online communities employ to most effectively embrace the new collaborative culture to prosper in a so-called post-American world? Join strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity educator Ajay Agrawal for a synthesis of the day’s collaborative ideas and innovations.
5:25-5:30 Highlights for Day Two & Invitation to Reception
Tim jones President & CEO, Artscape
The future home of Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Bell Lightbox is located in the heart of Toronto’s Entertainment District. Designed by architectural firm KPMB, this unique 5-storey facility will include cinemas, gallery spaces, learning studios, a reference library, and retail and restaurant spaces. TIFF is responsible for the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children and TIFF Cinematheque, along with several other year-round community and industry events.
City Sonic (Toronto) is a multiplatform documentary series about the places where music happens. At its core is a series of short films, uniquely crafted by some of Canada’s top filmmakers, about extraordinary artists shot in places where their musical lives were transformed. City Sonic creates a new level of engagement with the city through an iPhone App that merges short films with GPS to create a street level tour of Toronto’s downtown music scene.
Doc Shop– A web-based information, marketing and promotional tool for independent Canadian documentaries. The first ever searchable database for docs. Strong industry networking tool, and 24/7 industry access for searching, reviewing, selling and distributing films. Partnership between DOC, POV Magazine and a variety of production companies
Green Screen – An initiative to lay out a set of sustainable best practices, standards and protocols for the screen-based industry which will set Toronto apart from other international production centres as the leader in green and sustainable film production practices. Partnership between Planet in Focus, City of Toronto, various local suppliers/service providers and unions and guilds.
Mobile Innovation Experience Centre (MEIC)– A centre of excellence for mobile content, services, design and commercialization with a focus on the role of user experience and usable design in the creation of compelling products and services. Partnership between OCAD, CFC, George Brown, Ryerson, and various interactive content creative companies.
Conference Day TWO
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30TH
LOCATION: MaRS, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario
Watch for "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX, Challenging the grey, matters!”artistic interventions and stings integrated throughout the program.
Lights, Camera, Collaboration! The CP+S On Location Video Spotlight Series peppered throughout the conference features cross-sector collaborations in communities of all sizes across Canada, conveying a wealth of information and inspiration that illustrate and animate collaborations from coast to coast. On Location series made possible thanks to the generous support of The Canada Council.
Today’s Collaboration Marketplace, sponsored by Ontario Trillium Foundation, showcases stand-out examples of cross-sector collaboration in communities of all sizes throughout Ontario. The Marketplace (as with the Video Spotlights above) also illuminate the concepts of community transformation, problem-solving, and idea generation..
8:00-8:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast
Morning MC ROBIN CARDOZO,CEO, Ontario Trillium Foundation
8:30-8:50 Welcoming & Opening Address
ILSE TREURNICHT, CEO, MaRS, JOSEPH L. ROTMAN, Chair, Canada Council for the Arts, SIMON BRAULT Vice-Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts
8:50-9:00 CP+S On Location – Video Spotlight: The Transformation of Montreal
LUIGI FERRARA, Director, School of Design at George Brown College on location in Toronto, ON
This spotlight will showcase how communities came together to transform the city of Montreal into an innovative and collaborative city for the 21st century. Highlights include how the the design community brought the world design headquarters to Montreal, and how the urban design and development community revitalized Montreal through creating the international & multimedia district (Quartier Spectacle).
9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks ROBIN CARDOZO,CEO, Ontario Trillium Foundation
What happens when artists collaborate with scientists and educators in response to global warming? Cape Farewell! This highly successful artistic ‘intervention’ has spurred worldwide activity and underlines the power of artistic engagement to stimulate and envision the necessary cultural shift to build a sustainable and exciting society.
Collective creativity has the power to transform the global imagination. Hear from Lyn Heward, former COO of Cirque du Soleil’s Creative Content Divison on how this internationally acclaimed creation, production and distribution empire uses “seven doors to creativity” to spark its way towards innovation and transformation.
11:00-11:40 KEYNOTE CHARLES LANDRY,Author, Urban Thinker, Founder of Comedia
The Creative Bureaucracy
Government is perhaps the single most important actor in community development and Charles Landry believes that if we can make government more creative and more collaborative, we make our communities better. Innovating bureaucracy is the challenge for everyone to make their cities into great places.
11:45-12:25pm Panel Discussion: Interculturalism With CHARLES LANDRY, LYN HEWARD and DAVID BUCKLAND, Moderated by RAHUL BHARDWAJ
12:30-12:40 Spotlight on Frankfurt: Playing the City MATTHIAS ULRICH
1:30-2:45 COLLABORATION BREAKTHROUGH SESSIONS(Sessions run concurrently)
Creative Places + Spaces “breakthrough” sessions give delegates a stellar opportunity to roll up their sleeves in a smaller, more intimate setting to learn from experts and discuss specific areas of collaborative practice. Choose a specific area of interest to gain on-the-ground, working knowledge. Breakthrough sessions include:
Curated by DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project
“Leaders can emerge from anywhere.” We face a diversity deficit in leadership, but one that can be turned into a dividend by applying these five words: leaders can emerge from anywhere. Bringing forward leaders from diverse backgrounds can lead to creative connections, innovative solutions, and greater prosperity. Diversity Deficit to Dividend is a workshop designed to blur the line between panelists and participants to demonstrate how cities can benefit from their untapped leadership potential. In this workshop, you will be introduced to DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project, an ambitious, results-oriented initiative to diversify the leadership of a city region. A joint initiative of the Toronto City Summit Alliance and Maytree, DiverseCity aims to diversify the ethnic and racial representation of the Toronto region’s leadership through a series of cross-sectoral programs that expand networks, advance knowledge on diversity, strengthen institutions, and track our progress. You will hear from a dynamic group of leaders engaged in the initiative and have an opportunity to examine your own networks and approaches to collaboration. Join us to explore steps that you can take to move from diversity deficit to dividend.
Required material: At least 5 of your own business cards.
1:30-2:45 COLLABORATION BREAKTHROUGH SESSIONS(Sessions run concurrently)
BREAKTHROUGH SESSION B: Collaborative Governance
Curated by Artscape, Moderated by Terri Willis; Panelists: Pru Robey, Ken Coates, Rob DePetris
Collaborative Governance seeks a new mode of policy-making in urban regions that is strategic, mobilizes the talents and capabilities of a broad array of economic and social actors, and taps into the existing mix of federal and provincial programs. This type of governance needs to be grounded in a sustained process of policy development that leverages the research, human capital and business know-how of the region. The challenge is how to get civic actors – including local politicians and public officials, university and college presidents, business executives and community leaders – to come together to chart a new course for the region’s economic future. Join Session Moderator and Toronto City Councillor Adam Vaughan, Political Scientist David Wolf, Tamarack Founder Paul Born and Devon Ostrom of Beautifulcity.ca to learn why and how we can use the current economic malaise as an opportunity to collaborate as a region to compete in the global economy.
BREAKTHROUGH SESSION C: COLLABORATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE –
How Southern Ontario is forging innovative Paths Curated by Artscape, Moderated by Terri Willis; Panelists: Ken Coates, Rob DePetris
Talent, space and collaboration fuel our capacity for innovation. A panel featuring experts from Artscape, the Stratford-Waterloo-Kitchener region and N-Gen (a Niagara based business generator and capacity builder in interactive media) will discuss models of emergent, leading edge infrastructure practice in Toronto and Southern Ontario, sharing their unique perspectives on the importance and potential of collaboration and creativity to stimulate the economy, create jobs and build infrastructure for the future. Join moderator Terri Willis, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Ontario Ministry of Culture, together with Artscape Director of Special Projects Pru Robey Stratford Institute catalyst Ken Coates, Dean and Professor of History, University of Waterloo and nGen chairman Rob DePetris, to learn the ropes (and rigour!) of creating a collaborative infrastructure.
BREAKTHROUGH SESSION D: Collaboration & The Social Web–
A Fireside Chat with Community Leaders on the Social Web as a Collaborative Space Curated by SiG@MaRS; Lisa Torjman & Key Community Leaders
In a world where we can tag, link and Tweet, the effects of the social web extend far beyond a new vernacular. The social web is responsible for changing the way we receive, transmit and create information. In terms of how we’re collaborating, it is truly “game changing.” This breakout session discusses the social web with regard to social change offline, from mobilizing community initiatives to artistic movements. Join Lisa Torjman and key community leaders in this fireside chat.
3:15-3:25 CP+S On Location – Video Spotlight: Rising Tide Theatre
bill coultas, Independent Filmmaker on location in Trinity, Newfoundland
In the late seventies, The Rising Tide Theatre was founded in St. John’s. It based its very existence on the rich cultural history of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Thirty years later, the fountainhead of that history still provides a creative energy that sustains a vibrant and original acting troop. Now based in Trinity, Donna Butt’s Rising Tide Theatre was and still is a centre-piece of diverse and supportive entities which come together to highlight the uniqueness of Canada as a nation. And this nation, through the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, has a lot to offer in the way of original entertainment based on a past that is exciting, tragic and riveting.
Creativity is key when it comes to convening hundreds or even thousands of volunteers and inviting them to collaborate in order to reconfigure society’s views of nudity and privacy. Artist Spencer Tunick has been documenting the live nude figure in public, with photography and video, since 1992. His installations encompass dozens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers; and his photographs are records of these events. These grouped masses which do not underscore sexuality become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one’s view of nudity and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces.
4:05-4:15 CP+S On Location – Video Spotlight: How Toronto Beat the 'Summer of the Gun'
melissa gomez, Independent Filmmaker on location in Toronto, Ontario, The Toronto Sports Leadership Program
This spotlight will profile the issues, challenges and successes of a unique community collaboration that has taken place in the city of Toronto: the Toronto Sports Leadership Program. Told through the voices of five partners in the program, the film will show how the Toronto community came together and provided an answer to 2005’s “Summer of the Gun”.
4:15-5:15 Conference Synthesis + SiG@MaRS Video Spotlight
Keys to the Collaborative City
Panel: Tim Jones, CEO, Artscape; Allyson Hewitt, Director, Social Entrepreneurship and Director, SiG@MaRS; Tonya Surman, Executive Director, Centre for Social Innovation; Moderator: Peter Kageyama, Creative Cities Productions
5:30-6:30 Closing ReceptionMeet in the Main Floor Atrium at MaRS, reception location TBA
COLLABORATION MARKETPLACE
The Imperial Cotton Centre for the Arts (ICCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and managing physical space for the creative industry in Hamilton, ON. Since its inception in 2004 the ICCA has played a key role in redeveloping 4 facilities, including 2 brownfield sites. The ICCA also plays a leadership role in issues such as cultural policy, zoning, marketing and creative industry incubation.
Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win: North-South Partnership for Children is a unique collaboration of individuals and organizations from southern Ontario who have partnered with First Nations Chiefs, community leaders, Elders, youth and community members from 30 remote northern communities. The collective goal of the Partnership is to create innovative solutions to the living conditions on First Nations communities and at the same time inspire hope to Aboriginal living in the north and the province of Ontario.
Community Service Centre South Simcoe, a CONTACT creation, brings together local employment, business, community and government services that work together to develop a more integrated approach to service delivery in South Simcoe. CSCSS is not just about living together but offers a collaborative and creative client centred environment.
The Heartwood House mission statement is rooted in their belief that “non-profit member organizations working better together can provide a safe, supportive and dynamic community, achieving our respective missions and serving people from all economic, social, educational and spiritual backgrounds more creatively, efficiently, and cost-effectively than they would in isolation.” Heartwood explores the benefits of mutuality and interdependence, providing the physical and ideological basis for organizations to work together, building healthy relationships in the pursuit of meaningful goals and objectives.
The Macaulay Child Development Centre has created a project called “More than a Haircut: The Barbershop Project.” The project holds regular facilitated conversations about fatherhood in local Barbershops with Black fathers and father figures. Read more about the project at www.macaulaycentre.org. With Vital Ideas funding, the Centre promotes the messages and the unique model of More than a Haircut throughout the wider community. In additionally, they have developed and implemented a marketing plan that allows them to sustain and expand the program.
Conversation for Change has created a Game as a tool for teaching and learning about Toronto and the process of negotiation that influences urban change. Lying somewhere between Risk and Monopoly, The Game ultimately asks players to rethink their relationship to the social and built structures of their community, and to work together to develop new possibilities.
GreenIT Collaborative is a consortia of 7 nonprofit agencies building technology capacity through collaboration and use of practical tools Led by Green Communities Canada, the members are building skills to collaborate online through group tools, web conferencing and wikis which manage knowledge effectively, put everyone on the same page and shrink distance. A growing number of networks are joining GreenIT, saving money and collaborating effectively.
Toronto Community Foundation is one of Canada’s largest charitable foundations. With more than 375 funds, and assets of more than 200 million, community vitality has been our purpose, promise and passion since 1981, when we started connecting donors to community needs and opportunities. We monitor the quality of life in our city, identifying strengths and weaknesses through our Toronto’s Vital Signs Report, and use it to guide our donors and stakeholders to direct their resources to areas of greatest need.
Beyond 3:30, Keeping schools open after regular hours has been done on a pilot basis for the past two years at an elementary grade level in the Model Schools for Inner-Cities program.* The Beyond 3:30 project was inspired by a police officer from Parkdale who implored the Model Schools team to open up schools from 3:30 – 8:00 p.m for students so that they had a safe place to go. The program has recently been launched with the involvement of 6 TDSB Middle Schools, local agencies, families and children to create safe and dynamic community “hubs”. www.tdsb.on.ca/modelschools
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