DREAM STREET

A PLAYFUL MURAL IN TORONTO

Dream Street is a colorful, utopian cityscape mural co-created with the youth from Paris and Toronto. Like an outdoor film set, the different backdrops are perfect to play, to imagine and to record stories. What does an ideal street look like? Kids in Toronto and in Paris answered this question by sharing with us their brilliant ideas and their colourful drawings. The Street Society team integrated them into the design of the mural, to create a one-ofa-kind streetscape.

A wild urban jungle, cute local stores, buildings touching the sky, a welcoming home, a mysterious tunnel : the different scenes form the perfect backdrop to play. Hidden clues can also be found in the mural, like an urban treasure hunt. Mixing scales and perspective effects, the mural offers a fully immersive experience. Geometrical shapes and vivid colours bring new life to the unused industrial facade. Windows are turned into mirrors reflecting the surrounding urban environment, from houses to the sky. Symbolically, the mirrors also allow us to “reflect” on the urban transformation of the neighborhood and what our ideal city would look like. Dream Street is a vertical playground open to all, inviting us to experience a city from a child’s perspective

Dream Street was produced as part of The Bentway’s Playing in Public exhibition in Toronto (summer 2021). Click here to read the report “Play Provocations” about the season.

Created and designed by The Street Society, with : Bérénice Milon, Margaux Grappe, Eloïse Gillard, Edoardo Cecchin, Justine Lipski, Clémence Chapus and Alice Cabaret.