KWAG - Culture Talks: Art, Architecture, the Public Realm and Social Infrastructure featuring Mitchell Cohen
Culture Talks continues conversations between artists, architects, designers, city builders and urbanists, shining a light on exemplary buildings, public art projects, placemaking and the public realm. 2025 delves deeper into social infrastructure.
Time & Location
Apr 10, 2025, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
The Walper Hotel, 20 Queen St S, Kitchener, ON N2G 1V6, Canada
About the event
Culture Talks: Art, Architecture and the Public Realm and Social Infrastructure featuring Mitchell Cohen.
April 10, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
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Location: The Walper Hotel, 20 Queen St. South, Kitchener, N2G 1V6
Brief
Culture Talks continues conversations between artists, architects, designers, city builders and urbanists, shining a light on exemplary buildings, public art projects, placemaking and the public realm. 2025 delves deeper into social infrastructure. Following the presentation, Professor Rick Haldenby from the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo will engage in a discussion with Mitchell Cohen.
Mitchell Cohen, CM, is president and CEO of The Daniels Corporation, steering the organization’s strategic and long-term vision since 1984. Under his leadership, Daniels has become known for building residential offerings for people at all stages of life, and for its commitment to building a healthy social infrastructure within each new community. Over the past four decades the company has also created innovative affordable rental programs as well as programs that help tenants become first-time homeowners. In 2019, Cohen was appointed to the Order of Canada in recognition of his "contributions to urban development and for his commitment to community building.”A songwriter and musician as well as a socially conscious real estate developer, Cohen seamlessly bridges the intersection of business and the arts.