BUILDING INCLUSIVE CITIES

In the face of rapid redevelopment, who gets to tell the stories, document the histories, and shape the future of Toronto’s migrant neighborhoods? What are the opportunities, challenges, and implications of using oral histories as a form of knowledge sharing for professional practice and the policymaking process?  How can neighbourhoods transform while honouring the migration history, cultural networks, and forms of resistance found in its past and present? Inspired by these questions, Building Inclusive Cities began as a symposium comprising four multi-sectoral, arts-based workshops and a culminating public panel that together explored how community-engaged research processes and oral history methodologies can inform equitable city-building and heritage practices in the future. 

Centering the Toronto Ward Museum’s “Block by Block” program and exhibition in Toronto, the BIC symposium took place over three weeks in October 2022.