Christie Pearson (B.Arch, B.E.S., M.Arch, OAA) is an architect, writer, teacher and urban interventionist pressing at the limits of public space. She collaborates with communities, organizations, artists to create public events and build public places.
Christie has built upon her undergraduate studies in Environmental Studies graduate studies in Architecture to advocate for the public realm through multi-disciplinary community arts events, writing, speaking engagements, curation, teaching, and design practice.
She is a licensed practicing member of the Ontario Association of Architects, bringing twenty years of architectural experience in cultural, community and institutional projects with a focus on the arts, public and not-for-profit sectors.
Christie is a founding member and editor at the critical journal Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy and teaches design at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Her numerous award-winning curatorial projects and cultural and community spaces have been published and presented internationally.
Experiences
Fire on the Water
Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion
2012
First Nations Black Ash Baskets
Grey Roots Museum
2012
Waters of Forgetfulness
Human River Walk
2012
Whirl
University of Toronto
2007
WADE festival
w/S Rechico and YYZ Artists Outlet
2002-07
Night Swim Toronto
Nuit Blanche
2006
Slip
w/Urbanvessel, Harrison Baths Pool
2006
Four Lines
Urbanvessel Continuum soundAxis Festival
2006
108
CD & audio-visual installation w/ Sarah Peebles
2003
Feather, Ice, Dry, Mud Baths
Tokyo/Toronto
2000-02
Fabricator T-shirt Exchange
Power Plant Gallery
1998
Mattress City
Nathan Philips Square
1997
Inflatable Tube Shelter
Nathan Philips Square
1996
Architecture
University of Toronto Art Centre (1,000SF)
Project Architect
2018
401 Richmond Media Arts Commons (6,800SF)
Project Architect
2017
Bathurst Live/Work (2,600SF)
Project Architect
2016
Eva’s Phoenix Shelter (41,000SF)
Project Architect
2016
Kitchener Public Library (110,000SF)
Co-Project Architect
2014
Scadding Court CC Redevelopment
Study Lead
2011
Centre for Native Child and Family Wellbeing (35,000SF)
Co-Project Architect
2009
Pari Nadimi Gallery (4,300SF)
Project Architect
2005
Trinity Bellwoods CRC (30,000SF)
Lead
1999
Publications
Room
Issue #1 Bathroom UBC School of Architecture
2018
Scapegoat Journal
10 NIGHT Issue Co-editor
2017
Scapegoat Journal
Interview with Philippe Rahm
2017
Scapegoat Journal
09 EROS Issue Co-editor
2016
Scapegoat Journal
Space-Espace-Escape
2016
C Magazine
WET Issue Interview with Leonard Koren
2014
Scapegoat Journal
ExRotaprint
2013
Urban Ecologies
Urban Interventions, OCADU Press
2013
Scapegoat Journal
Review: OMA’s Milstein Hall
2012
Scapegoat Journal
Interview with Jutta Mason
2011
Ground
Spring Cultures of Play
2010
Alphabet City WATER
Public Bath and City, MIT Press
2009
Ascent
Interview: Marion Woodman
2009
Descant
10th Street Baths
2008
Ascent
Winter Ashram Lit with Marcus Boon
2008
Senses and Society
Bath Spa review
2006
WADE
Exhibition Catalogue w/ S Rechico YYZ Books
2007
On Site
Spring Dry Bath Ice Bath Mud Bath Feather Bath
2006
Spacing
Toronto’s Wading Pools w/ S Rechico
2004
Alphabet City OPEN CITY
October Group MIT Press
1998
Speaking
KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre Yogyakarta
2018
The Assembly: Red Flagg Gallery Kaplan’s Bathers
2017
Bridge Cambridge Architectures of the Night
2017
Aga Khan Museum/TSA at Doors Open Toronto
2016
Tuning Speculation III: The Occulture IVB
2015
Tasmanian College of the Arts Immersion and Art
2015
Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art
2015
The Urban Night Colloquium, McGill University
2014
C Magazine Sauna Symposium Hart House Farm
2014
Gallery 1313 Art Builds 2013 Gladstone Grow Op Playing With Landscape
2014
University of Waterloo Public Baths, Public Spaces
2013
Canadian Music Centre On Collaboration
2013
OCADU Urban Ecologies Conference
2013
A Month of Sundays Geneology
2010
University of Toronto Love and Politics
2010
Alphabet City Water Festival Water and Bathing
2009
Toronto Arts Council Foundation Art in the Parks
2008
Toronto Free Gallery Creative Activism
2008
Publications
Room
Issue #1 Bathroom UBC School of Architecture
2018
Scapegoat Journal
10 NIGHT Issue Co-editor
2017
Scapegoat Journal
Interview with Philippe Rahm
2017
Scapegoat Journal
09 EROS Issue Co-editor
2016
Scapegoat Journal
Space-Espace-Escape
2016
C Magazine
WET Issue Interview with Leonard Koren
2014
Scapegoat Journal
ExRotaprint
2013
Urban Ecologies
Urban Interventions, OCADU Press
2013
Scapegoat Journal
Review: OMA’s Milstein Hall
2012
Scapegoat Journal
Interview with Jutta Mason
2011
Ground
Spring Cultures of Play
2010
Alphabet City WATER
Public Bath and City, MIT Press
2009
Ascent
Interview: Marion Woodman
2009
Descant
10th Street Baths
2008
Ascent
Winter Ashram Lit with Marcus Boon
2008
Senses and Society
Bath Spa review
2006
WADE
Exhibition Catalogue w/ S Rechico YYZ Books
2007
On Site
Spring Dry Bath Ice Bath Mud Bath Feather Bath
2006
Spacing
Toronto’s Wading Pools w/ S Rechico
2004
Alphabet City OPEN CITY
October Group MIT Press
1998
Speaking
KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre Yogyakarta
2018
The Assembly: Red Flagg Gallery Kaplan’s Bathers
2017
Bridge Cambridge Architectures of the Night
2017
Aga Khan Museum/TSA at Doors Open Toronto
2016
Tuning Speculation III: The Occulture IVB
2015
Tasmanian College of the Arts Immersion and Art
2015
Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art
2015
The Urban Night Colloquium, McGill University
2014
C Magazine Sauna Symposium Hart House Farm
2014
Gallery 1313 Art Builds 2013 Gladstone Grow Op Playing With Landscape
2014
University of Waterloo Public Baths, Public Spaces
2013
Canadian Music Centre On Collaboration
2013
OCADU Urban Ecologies Conference
2013
A Month of Sundays Geneology
2010
University of Toronto Love and Politics
2010
Alphabet City Water Festival Water and Bathing
2009
Toronto Arts Council Foundation Art in the Parks
2008
Toronto Free Gallery Creative Activism
2008
Based in Toronto.
christie@christiepearson.ca
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