After a late-summer break, Don River Radio returns for the fall with a conversation between host Dylan Gauthier and Daniel Rotsztain about the latter's civic and socially engaged art practice as "The Urban Geographer," maps, visual arts as activism, and remaking our expectations for the built environment.

Guest Bio

Daniel Rotsztain is an artist, writer, and cartographer based in Toronto, Dish with One Spoon. His work examines our relationships to the places we inhabit. As an admirer of public libraries, malls, and strip malls, his projects also seek to understand and support the diverse settings of the city’s public life. As a geographer of European descent working in Turtle Island, Rotsztain am committed to understanding and sharing the treaties and Wampum Belts that outline our roles and responsibilities toward this land and its people. Rotsztain is the author and illustrator of All the Libraries Toronto, a colouring book featuring every branch of Toronto Public Library and A Colourful History Toronto, a collaboration with the City of Toronto featuring the city’s historic sites. His work has also been published in the Globe and Mail, Now Magazine, Toronto Life, New York Magazine, and Spacing Magazine, and his past clients include the City of Toronto, Heritage Toronto, ERA Architects, the Toronto Board of Trade, and the Canada Council of the Arts. I have a semi-regular column on CBC Radio One’s Here and Now about exploring the Greater Toronto Area. Rotsztain is the co-lead of plazaPOPS, a project to enhance strip mall parking lots to become vibrant public spaces, and he's a consultant with PROCESS, a planning and design firm in Toronto.

For more, see: https://theurbangeographer.ca/