Three Cities was a project initiated by Diaspora Dialogues to spark a community discussion centred on socio-economic development in the city of Toronto.

The project draws upon an influential academic report produced by J. David Hulchanski, identifying a widening income disparity in Canada's largest city, and further identifying this income gap as manifesting itself along geographical boundaries in the city.

For Toronto's 2011 Nuit Blanche Festival, Diaspora Dialogues wanted to commission an event that would represent the data accumulated in Hulchanski's report. Working with a technology developed by Harvery Moon, Studio F-Minus produced this robotic drawing machine to be the evening's centrepiece.

The artwork began as an 8' x 8' hand-drawn map of Toronto's neighborhoods. Each neighborhood was coloured with text pulled from social media sites, representing the vibrancy and heterogeneity of these neighborhoods. As the evening progressed, the robotic arm drew over the map in black and blue, writing out statistics pulled from Hulchanski's report. The project conveys the relentless transformation of the city from a a vibrant tapestry of mixed neighborhoods to a place segregated between haves and have-nots.

While the machine worked, Diaspora Dialogues and Mass LBP conducted a 12-hour long community consultation with citizens, drawing on their feedback to produce a report on possible solutions to the issue.