Exhibition: Beyond the Wall. Image credit: Toronto Metropolitan UniversityA new exhibition will be coming soon to the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)s Paul H. Cocker Gallery.The exhibition, called Beyond the Wall, records separation by design and the experience of facing oppressive walls and the ways that people transform them.Beyond the Wall aims to reject the designers role in enabling the destruction of people, places, and identities in Gaza, Palestine, and beyond. In order to communicate human experiences behind numbers, this exhibit captures the struggle and stories of steadfastness, understanding, and visions of a better future.When confined by a wall, fence, or barrier, we may feel alone, unable to see our experience as one in a series. Through a narrative sequence of case studies, the exhibit reveals parallels between seemingly disparate systems of control, reads TMUs website.Simultaneously, we are linked by the instinct to find a crack in the walla gap through which we can envision a different world or a different wall. This exhibition thus highlights the parallels between various citizen-led interventions that redefine the wall as a surface for self-expression, a shaper of gathering spaces, or something to be transgressed. Here, that effort is humanized and celebrated. The wall is a tool for both control and agency.The exhibition will open on February 27, and run until April 3, 2025.For more information, click here.The post New exhibition at TMU to spotlight experience of facing oppressive walls appeared first on Canadian Architect.