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PURPOSE

How are endings made? Or rather, what are they made of? Better yet, how does the end’s material inform new beginnings? These questions propel Local Technique.


Local Technique is a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization working at the intersection of architectural conservation and waste tracing possible futures and entangled pasts of sites, structures and materials. Through interdisciplinary research and projects, Local Technique is a practice of careful listening, creative probing, and critical thinking. 


Understanding building demolition and deconstruction to be a form of material production, Local Technique considers how it is returned to the land. In doing so, it asks: how does (building) material displacement constitute an act of design? Taking cues from the cumulative architectures it occupies, it asks: how do materials themselves both persist and resist?  How do they shape and reflect longer trajectories?


Often working in collaboration, Local Technique draws together a constellation of histories, geographies and actors, to offer a portrait of architecture - not a static object - but as a moving project.  In doing so, it aspires to prompt consideration of the sites beyond the site, of architecture’s remainders and discards and the processes which create it. 



PROSE

What makes a place, a place?

It is that which remains

and that which has been displaced.

It is a social stratigraphy embedded in 

buildings of brick, glass and concrete, 

dimensions of road, overlooked vegetation, 

and the storied materials contained therein.

It is also the movement of these pieces -

a tectonic choreography  

which extracts and extrudes, mixes and moulds.

This shape-taking process

- a Local Technique - 

occurs in the working and living,

the wrecking and rearranging 

the gathering and building.

At both the center and periphery,

entangled matter is returned

beloved though contaminated,  

inherited and inhabited by generations

of wild life.

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RESEARCH

RESEARCH

RESEARCH

 Operating at the intersection of architectural conservation and waste, Local Technique conducts interdisciplinary research that explores underlying patterns of material use and exposes new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between past and future landscapes.

PROJECTS

RESEARCH

RESEARCH

 Through collaborative and independent projects, Local Techniques explores themes of erasure, accumulation, movement and transformation.  Created and presented in a range of settings, these  projects explore the multiple, entangled values of sites, structures and materials. 

people

 Alison Creba is the principal investigator at Local Technique. Working at the intersection of architectural maintenance, conservation and waste, Alison takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and evaluating physical spaces and environmental legacies. Alison is also the operations manager of Artscape Wychood Barns, a century-

 Alison Creba is the principal investigator at Local Technique. Working at the intersection of architectural maintenance, conservation and waste, Alison takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and evaluating physical spaces and environmental legacies. Alison is also the operations manager of Artscape Wychood Barns, a century-old former streetcar barn, converted to artist residences, studios and community spaces in Toronto, Canada.

Rashmi Sirkar is a contributor and current collaborator with Local Technique. She is researching Deconstruction and Reuse in the Toronto context as a part of her Masters of Architecture at the University of Toronto. She is also co-founder of Mana Organics, a women-led social enterprise developing organic farming systems in rural India, wo

Rashmi Sirkar is a contributor and current collaborator with Local Technique. She is researching Deconstruction and Reuse in the Toronto context as a part of her Masters of Architecture at the University of Toronto. She is also co-founder of Mana Organics, a women-led social enterprise developing organic farming systems in rural India, working to integrate waste management into the production of organic fertilizer.

Friends of Local Technique

GIAIMO

Giaimo is a Toronto-based architecture firm integrating design and heritage conservation who have been implementing deconstruction and material re-use on a variety of projects to conserve, and thus leverage, the existing embodied energy and carbon of a building. They are committed to bridging the gap between the well-established deconstruction research that exists across academia and international precedents with the current state of the real estate, construction, architecture, and building industry in Ontario. 

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WASTE HERITAGE RESEARCH

Waste Heritage Research is an online workplace for research developing at Carleton University on the relationship between heritage conservation and architectural waste.  Led by professor Susan Ross, the material assembled here builds on work of the last decade looking at notions of sustainability within heritage and environmental conservation discourses.

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ROTOR

Rotor is a Brussels-based cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment. Internationally recognized as forerunners in sustainable architecture, Rotor develops critical positions through research and design. Besides projects in architecture and interior design, the firm also produces exhibitions, books, economic models and policy proposals.

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BUILD REUSE

Founded in 1994, Build Reuse is a national organization dedicated to empowering communities to turn construction and demolition waste into local resources. A hub for knowledge and experience in the field, Build Reuse brings together practitioners, policy makers and academics to address the challenges and opportunities embedded in the construction and demolition sector in North America

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FROM LATER

 From Later is a foresight studio that monitors and makes sense of change, developing clear-sighted and judicious futures perspectives. Develop tools and ways of working that augment our faculties for research, problem-solving, and creativity. Explore the capacities of art, science, theory, and strategy to address complex challenges.

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CIRCULAR ECONOMY WORKING GROUP

To drive innovation and the growth of a circular economy in Toronto, the City has established a Circular Economy & Innovation Unit within the Solid Waste Management Services Division. The Unit is involved in research and planning as well as incorporating circular economy principles into new programs, policies, procurement and processes. The overarching goal of the unit is to make Toronto the first municipality in Ontario with a circular economy.

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