Toronto Metropolitan University Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship & iBoost

Interior fit-up of Suite 921 at Atrium on Bay adjacent to famous Yonge-Dundas Square that provides two distinct spaces for use by multiple Toronto Metropolitan University groups, including the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The renovation provides an innovation hub that supports student entrepreneurs and inventors in the early stages of their projects.

Toronto Metropolitan University Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship & iBoost

Completion Date

2017

Location

Toronto, Ontario

Size

10,000 sq ft

Design Team

Valerie Gow

Nancy Chao

Photography

Tom Arban

Description

Interior fit-up of Suite 921 at Atrium on Bay that provides two distinct spaces for use by multiple Toronto Metropolitan University groups, including the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Spaces of collaboration and incubation are important for research-oriented institutes like Toronto Metropolitan University. The renovation provides an innovation hub that supports student entrepreneurs and inventors in the early stages of their projects. The open concept, touchdown environment facilitates critical interaction between students, faculty, external communities and industry partners, taking learning beyond classroom and office walls.

The open space planning supports the university's new pedagogy model of experiential Zone Learning, which prepares students for the 21st century workplace through tangible experience on real world projects. The “iBoost Zone” is an acceleration platform for student technology entrepreneurs to solve real customer problems and create startups around that solution. Flexible furniture solutions allow for reconfigurable arrangement of the space for team work or individual research.