Image: Videostill from Chinatown 2050, Short documentary film, 2022, Linda Zhang and Maxim Gertler-Jaffe.

How might the pandemic shape the future of Toronto’s Chinatown? Five scenarios tackling this question are imagined by Asian Canadian youth, with their speculations brought to life by a visual collage of dreamlike LiDAR 3D modelling scans. Join us online to watch the film and learn from some of its contributors about this film and the related book, Reimagining Chinatown: Speculative Fictions from Toronto's Chinatown(s) in 2050.

Amelia Gan is one of the Authors of Reimagining Chinatown: Speculative Fictions from Toronto's Chinatown(s) in 2050, a book deeply connected to the film Chinatown 2050. She is an architectural designer and researcher from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia whose work lies at the intersection of design tools and building material science. She holds a Master in Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University. 

Image: Courtesy of Amelia Gan.

Linda Zhang (she/her) is a registered architect (AIA, OAA), interior designer (NCIDQ), and drone pilot (RPAS Advanced Operations) as well as an artist and educator. She is an assistant professor at Waterloo University School of Architecture and a principal at Studio Pararaum (Toronto—Zürich).

She is a 2022 Artist-in-Residence at the EKWC (European Ceramic Work Centre, Oisterwijk, NL), 2022 Toronto Metropolitan University Library Research-in-Residence and 2021-2022 visiting scholar at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute. Previously, she was the recipient of the 2019 Multicultural Fellow at NCECA (National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts), 2017-2018 Boghosian Fellowship at Syracuse University SoA as well as 2017 Fellowship at the Berlin Center for Art and Urbanistics. Her work is included in Griffin Art Projects’ upcoming book, Whose Chinatown: Examining Chinatown Gazes in Art, Archives, and Collections.

Image: Linda Zhang, Self-Portrait, courtesy of the artist.