Objects for Adaptation and Resilience

“What does it mean to be adaptable? What does it mean to be resilient? Kate Tessier has invited Artists-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre to collaborate in creating a new collective body of work responding to the idea of adaptation and resilience. Each artist is invited to present a selection of their current work to display along with new work created in collaboration. 

Objects for Adaptation and Resilience is a collaborative installation of craft and design representing the development of a process for Kate Tessier’s practice, Kilowatt Kate, in which co-design and collaboration converge to respond generatively to the human predicament.”

– Kate Tessier

Kate Tessier is a Chartered Industrial Designer with a penchant for lighting, material reclamation and developing new work as part of a collaborative curatorial practice that goes by the name Kilowatt Kate. Kate joins Harbourfront Centre as Senior Designer-in-Residence and as curator of Everyday Lighting, now in its second iteration. Kate brings two decades of experience in product development to offer her expertise to fellow Artists-in-Residence to develop some exquisite and captivating new work.