Architect Alex Josephson, co-founder of Toronto studio Partisans, spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime talk sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival.
Toronto-based architect Josephson spoke to Dezeen’s founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the work of Partisans, the studio he co-founded alongside Pooya Baktash and Jonathan Friedman.
Amongst the studio’s recent projects is The Orbit, a futuristic masterplan for the rural Canadian town of Innisfil that includes drone ports and infrastructure for autonomous vehicles.
Last year, Partisans collaborated with Google’s urban planning wingSidewalk Labs to create a prototype for a ‘raincoat’ that extends from a building’s facade to protect the pavement in front of it in harsh weather.
The prototype was developed as part of Google’s recently abandoned plan for Sidewalk Toronto, a smart city proposed for Toronto’s waterfront.
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