Linda Zhang

2024 Program Artist

A portrait photograph of Linda Zhang. She is a Chinese woman with fair skin, a black bob cut, and is wearing cat-eye eyeliner. She is wearing a black leather jacket. She is in Toronto’s Chinatown. The background features the red Dragon Monumental Gates and a streetcar.

Linda Zhang (she/her) is an architect (OAA, AIA), interior designer (NCIDQ), creative technologist and educator. She is the founder of Studio Pararaum / Para Lab and an assistant professor at University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Her spatial practice and research supports community ownership and anti-displacement through architectural co-design. Since she returned to Tkaronto’s Chinatown in 2018, she has been documenting Chinatown East and West by 3D scanning the neighbourhoods’ built environments. From these 3D models, she creates architectural memory technologies and co-design platforms to build community power in Chinatown through co-imagination and co-remembering to envision a more generative, affordable and culturally meaningful shared future(s) for all.

张亦飞(她)是一位建筑师(OAA、AIA)、室内设计师(NCIDQ)、创意技术专家和教育家。 她是 Studio Pararaum / Para Lab 的创始人,也是滑铁卢大学建筑学院的助理教授。 通过建筑共同设计,她的空间实践和研究旨在建立社区所有权和防止失所化。 自从 2018 年回到多伦多以来,她通过 3D 立体扫描技术来记录东区唐人街和西区唐人街的建筑环境。 她利用这些 3D 模型来创建建筑记忆技术和共同设计平台,以在唐人街建立社区力量。通过共同想象和共同记忆,从而为所有人设想一个(或多个)更具创造性、更经济适用和更具有文化意义的共同未来.

Program

In Conversation: Morris Lum & Arlene Chan | Chinatown In Photos

2024 Biennial artist Morris Lum is joined by Chinese Canadian Historian Arlene Chan, and architect and professor Linda Zhang, for an intimate conversation tracing the history of Toronto’s first Chinatown (located near present day City Hall) and the transition to its current location at Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West. This discussion will utilize storytelling […]

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