The Kaneff Centre/Innovation Complex[a] is an academic building complex on the Mississauga campus of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. The Kaneff Centre, named for philanthropist Ignat Kaneff, opened in 1992 and hosts the Blackwood Art Gallery and the Department of Management. The Innovation Complex is a C$29.7 million expansion of the building completed in 2014 that houses the campus registrar's office, the Department of Economics and the Institute for Management and Innovation (IMI). The buildings share the municipal address of 1833 Inner Circle, Mississauga, Ontario.
The Kaneff Centre for Management and Social Sciences opened in 1992 as the first new academic building at the University of Toronto's Erindale College (now the University of Toronto Mississauga) since the South Building in 1973.[1][5] The building housed the political science, economics, commerce, and management programs and was shaped as a horseshoe with a circular courtyard in the middle.[3] It was named for Bulgarian-Canadian business magnate and philanthropist Ignat Kaneff who was the first to donate C$1 million to the UTM campus.[1]
Expansion
Following substantial growth in the campus's student population, plans were developed in 2011 to expand the Kaneff Centre with Moriyama & Teshima Architects chosen for the design.[2] The structure, called the Innovation Complex, was completed in August 2014 and built as an infill where the courtyard was originally. The circular space became a domed rotunda used for speaking events and ceremonies. In total, the expansion added 65,300 square feet of space, tripling the facility’s capacity.[3] Also added was an underground tunnel connecting the complex to the William G. Davis Building. The city of Mississauga contributed C$10 million to the project's funding.[6]
Facilities
Exterior of the Kaneff Centre
The Kaneff Centre portion of the complex is mainly occupied by the Department of Management since the Department of Political Science moved to Maanjiwe nendamowinan. The Department of Economics and Institute for Management and Innovation (IMI), occupy the upper floors of the Innovation Complex, with the divisional office of the registrar's main service desk located in the rotunda.[7][4]
ICUBE UTM
The Institute for Management and Innovation hosts ICUBE UTM, a start-up incubator that is part of the University of Toronto Entrepreneurship network.[8] ICUBE sponsors pitch competitions with the City of Mississauga and awards funding for UTM students, which have supported notable businesses including the food sustainability company Just Vertical and fundraising platform Micharity.[9][10]
Blackwood Gallery
Blackwood Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in the Kaneff Centre that maintains public artworks and light box exhibits around the Mississauga campus. Its annual exhibitions include work by students in a joint program of the University of Toronto and Sheridan College.[11] It originated from the campus's first art gallery, located in a small corridor of the North Building around the time of Erindale College's opening in 1967, which was the first in Mississauga. The current gallery was established in 1992 and is named for David Blackwood, who was a campus artist-in-residence from 1969 to 1975 after he was sought out by Erindale principal John Tuzo Wilson.[12] Blackwood, an acclaimed graphic artist known for his depictions of Newfoundland outports and contributions to the campus, was recognized by the Order of Canada in 1993.[13] Blackwood Gallery maintains a permanent collection of over 450 works of Canadian contemporary art with a focus on pieces created by Ontario-based and Inuit artists. A project to upgrade its permanent collection storage and preservation facilities was completed in 2014 during the construction of the Innovation Complex.[14]
↑ The Kaneff Centre and Innovation Complex share the same building code (KN) and street address. The latter is an expansion of the former and sometimes considered a separate building.[4]
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