As part of the DesignTO 2026 festival, architect and educator Quan Thai and Ace Hotel Toronto, invites you to an intimate evening of “Queeries & Cocktails.” The discussion centers on the exhibition TO·BE·LONGING: Portraits of Queer Living, bringing together community contributed artifacts from the homes of our queer community and an immersive spatial experiment hosted in Suite 1104. The event prompts how queer experiences may shape and subvert the rigid, heteronormative domesticity of multi-unit housing.
Our panel brings together three distinct voices in visual storytelling, design, and theory to explore the relationships between the body, the object, and the space.
Host:
Quan Thai, Architect, Educator, and Curator of TO·BE·LONGING: Portraits of Queer Living
Panelists:
Chad Burton, Fashion Editor, Interiors & Product Stylist
Bahar Ghaemi, Creative Director of Product, Yabu Pushelberg
Sean Santiago, Design Editor-at-Large, Creative Director, Former Deputy Editor of ELLE Decor
