{"id":1827,"date":"2011-07-14T00:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T00:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-08-01T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:52:59","slug":"the-bureau-of-doing-something-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"The Bureau Of Doing Something About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BMD-BDSA-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1814\" title=\"BMD-BDSA-web\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BMD-BDSA-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>July 20\u00a0&#8211; July 31, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening reception (by invitation): Friday, July 22, 6 \u2013 9pm<br \/>\nClosing party (by invitation): Thursday, July 28, 6 &#8211; 9pm<br \/>\n<strong>Propeller Centre for Visual Arts<\/strong><br \/>\n984 Queen St. W.<br \/>\nT:416 504 7142<br \/>\nwww.propellerctr.com<br \/>\nrejected@torontorejects.com<br \/>\nHours: Fri &#8211; Sat 12 &#8211; 6, Sun 12-5pm<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Toronto Complaints Choir, produced as part of the 2010-2011 World Stage season at Harbourfront Centre, collected over 1000 grievances, gripes, and annoyances from people across the city. The choir transformed these troubles into a siren song for the disenchanted. For twelve days in July, Bruce Mau Design (BMD) will work to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Our pop-up studio, working in real-time in the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, will design solutions in response to the complaints. A book of these ideas will be simultaneously designed, and then given away throughout this city we love.<\/p>\n<p>BMD\u2019s Bureau of Doing Something About It is being led by studio designers <strong>Amanda Happ\u00e9, Chris Braden, Kar Yan Cheung, Michal Dudek, and Paul Kawai.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>July 20 &#8211; July 31, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening reception (by invitation):Friday, July 22, 6 \u2013 9pm; Closing party (by invitation):Thursday, July 28, 6-9pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Propeller Centre for Visual Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Toronto Complaints Choir collected a lots of grievances. Our pop-up studio, working in real-time in Propeller, will design solutions in response to the complaints. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=1827\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}