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Multi-Sensory: Multi-Sensory Approach and Castles

multi-sensory: Proudly embedded in this architecture of these building is the confidence of times when to be a member of the elite was no sin and the decorative arts were more available and more affordable than they are today, according to NOW Magazine. Some of these buildings are less than a century old, yet they seem as beyond our capacity to imitate them as the pyramids, Stonehenge or the castles and cathedrals of medieval Europe. His lecture: The Deindustrialization Of Our Senses: A Multi-Sensory Approach To Intangible Heritage, "will explore the changing dynamic between industry and surrounding communities in Toronto."What does this mean and what does it have to do with heritage This year nominees for the William Greer Architectural Conservation and Craftsmanship Award include the restorers of the art deco North Toronto Consumer Gas Showroom; the bell tower of the Church of the Redeemer on Bloor West; the Don Jail ; the FIVE Condos that soar out of what used to be the Rawlinson Cartage warehouses and the lobby of the mid-century modern Imperial Oil Plaza, with its mural, York Wilson The Story Of Oil. Their heritage is tangible and magnificent . But what do we know of their intangible heritage, the people who built them with their hands, or lived, worked, prayed or played in them Heritage Toronto writing and media awards recognize people who look for answers to those questions. × Expand Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons For Ammo, by Barbara Dickson, one of 18 nominees for the book award, is about people, 21,000 of them, mostly women who filled munitions with high explosive at the GECo factory in Scarborough during World War II. Bomb Girls draws on the oral histories of an industrial city engaged in total war, when men on the battlefront depended on the armaments made by women on the home front. It gone now, but its human history is preserved in Bomb Girls, while the history of the suburbs that replaced it, recorded and unrecorded, continues to unfold. GECo was huge - 172 buildings on 140 hectares of what had been farmland. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.