By David Bogen
Over the past two decades, designers of all stripes have begun integrating the lessons of ethnography into their academic research and professional practices. Under the rubrics of “reflexive,” “participatory,” “human-centred,” “contextual,” and “transformation …

By Lois Klassen, Glen Lowry & Julie york
Developing a university research agenda requires significant changes to the structure and specialization of an Art and Design institution; it also involves a radical transformation to the “art …

By Bobbi Kyle & Nick Ng
This article explores and elucidates the problems and processes involved in conceptualizing interior architecture for single-room micro-dwellings in urban Vancouver as part of the Ninety Square Foot Space project at …

Review of Douglas Thomas’ and John Seely Brown’s “A New Culture of Learning”
Douglas Thomas, associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and John Seely Brown, a visiting scholar and special …

Review of Hazel Clark and David Brody’s “Design Studies: A Reader”
I’d like to kick off my review with two citations from Susan S. Szenasy’s article “Ethical Design Education” which is an article featured in “Design …

Health care researchers develop a tremendous amount of data. The challenge is to be able to see both the system and the parts simultaneously. This is where information/interaction designers can aid health researchers in refining …

Case Study: Powertech – Service Oriented Strategies for Sustainability
Loise St.Pierre, Associate Professor, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media, Faculty of Graduate Studies
This morning, I spent two dollars on a coffee and put 834 grams of …

So if you have been following the Current blog this year, you may have noticed that the category names have changed three times up until this point… and I do believe I owe you an …