For the last few years Sacha Chua has been fascinated with jungles of information and how we hack our way through them.

In her presentation, Sacha shares with us how she has been able to open up, organize, and paddle down these streams of information to find the unknowns or  "dragons" in each of them.

It's not easy to be a depanneur, a person who get things fixed, a troubleshooter, a problem solver.

The concept behind Len Senater's "Depanneur" is to create a community-oriented venue in which interesting food things could happen. He wants to provide a legitimate space for all the underground culinaray talents in the city to showcase their talents.

Inspired by Montreal's dinning culture, Len wanted to disentangle quality from luxury, challenging the idea that good dinning experience has to be fancy. In this presentation, he shares his constant battle with the local authority (and neighbour) just to continue his dream. 

Vancouver based photographer Jason Neve gives some insight into his project, "Disposable Landscapes," which he uses to document the broken down urban scenes of Vancouver's downtown east side, a den of drugs, prostitutes, and poverty. He looks at the notes left in graffiti and the occasional revelations they can bring, and asks what the ongoing gentrification of the downtown east side will mean in ten years.

Writer and aspiring designer Greg Bolton examines the idea that copywriters can be inventors, using examples of writers turned designers who write about their creative processes. He explains his current desire to become more than simply a copywriter or journalist, and instead engage in the making as well as the documenting process.

After quitting her 9-5 job, Linda Nakanishi started a few up-cycling projects hoping to make people aware of her environmental concern. She realized her approach wasn't working, started researching online, discovered infographics is the medium which she could use to share her environmental concern to a larger audience.

Zygmunt Strawczynski loves to travel. In this presentation, he shares what he's learned from traveling to places that were mostly off the beaten path, and how he realized he could become very rich by selling frisbees at the Tiananmen Square.

A group of architects, artists and designers (The Soudan Project) decided to spend 4 days turning a soon to be demolished house into a series of installations that dig into the psyche of a house and reveal its stories beyond bricks and mortar. Each installation represent how the artists answered the question: "What have you always wanted to do to a house?"

In response to local politician Doug Holyday's recent comment about how Toronto is not the ideal city to raise children, Sarkis Ghanaghounian (AKA Sako) shares how he, as a city kid, loves growing up in a city and all the cool stuff he gets to experience.

"Presentation of the Day" on April 6, 2013.

Roman Milo is a digital artist and was one of the founding members of Harbourfront Centre. He started working with digital art when his computer got hacked by the Romanian KGB hacking school in 1995. He then started studying computer viruses and code, and created an art show inspired by the codes.

"Presentation of the Day" on February 26, 2013.

Graphic designer Dominic Ayre describes the role that chance plays in good design, and the extent to which the outside world affects his design through chance. He suggests that chance can be a form of communication used to convey and generate new ideas, using his design and his students as examples of this phenomenon.

Shawn Micallef analyses the often derided architecture of Toronto, and its mixture of modern and antique buildings, usually adjacent or actually encroaching on one another. He makes the argument that, while traditionally beautiful cities like Paris or Prague may retain a romanticized image, Toronto's lack of boundaries when it comes to maintaining a determined style allows it to experiment and create much livelier streets and sprawls.

Five Over Seven is comprised of Isabelle Santiago, Terra Loire, and Ashley Arbour, a trio of designers who post a new theme on their website every Sunday, and invite everyone to submit posts on the theme for the rest of the week. In this presentation, they walk through the ideas of the website, as well as each of their own creative processes.