June 14 | Responsive Architecture
Saturday, June 14, 2026
1 to 4 PM
Outdoor courtyard and Deacon Community Room at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham
About the Program
You’re invited to Responsive Architecture, an open house of interactive installations designed and built by undergraduate students from the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
Responsive Architecture explores how computing can be integrated into the built environment, making architecture responsive to people, climate, and various systems of infrastructure. These interactive technologies can mediate human behaviour in the built environment: how we move through space, how we are seen, and how we might imagine more poetic and playful relationships between bodies and cities.
Led by instructor Humbi Song, students will present interactive architectural installations that experiment with recent advances in physical computing, AI, and digital fabrication.
This open house is co-produced and co-presented by Markham Public Art and the Daniels Faculty, with the support of the Varley Art Gallery of Markham. The initiative gives design students an opportunity to create work in direct dialogue with an urban context, while offering the Markham community a chance to experience socially conscious, experimental design projects that use state-of-the-art technology and offer a glimpse into how future designers are being trained to shape our urban futures.
