- Studio for Extensive Aesthetics: An Artistic Research Lab at Emily Carr This paper describes the research and theoretical orientation of the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics (SEA), which produces projects and artistic research on the aesthetic implications of technological innovation. Particularly, the studio investigates the aesthetics of the growing archive of cultural data and information produced by global networked infrastructures. The work is transdisciplinary in nature, operating […]
- A New Recycling System Metro Vancouver is a “political body and corporate entity operating under provincial legislation” which consists of 22 municipalities [1]. One of their services is to manage solid waste and recycling; people in this jurisdiction throw away nearly 1.5 million tonnes of garbage every year [3]. In order to help people produce less garbage and recycle […]
- The Air We Breathe: connecting through air quality monitoring Air quality is an inherently important aspect of both personal and environmental health. This is a problem that many Canadians struggle with due industries’ proximity to residential areas. This project focuses on two communities in Ontario, Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia, which are next door neighbours to Chemical Valley, Canada’s largest refinery of petrochemical products. Health effects […]
- The New Clothes: Rewriting Wardrobe Scripts “People need not only to obtain things, they need above all the freedom to make things among which they can live, to give shape to them according to their own tastes, and to put them to use.” —Ivan Illich. The New Clothes is a project that engages consumers in constructing new meaning, value, and potential […]
- Packaging Systems for Transportation I found myself one day at a standstill in bumper to bumper traffic heading up Clark Street in Vancouver and noticed the Skytrain fly right over us and envied the riders as I looked at the sea of big semis and trucks that I was stranded in. It was at that moment I had an […]
- Design as Activism: to resist or to generate? Over the past few years, I’ve been sitting in audiences and on the occasional stage hearing two common criticisms of design activism. In this article I hope to convince you that these criticisms are misguided. You should not accept their implication that designers should shy away from or be afraid of activism. My goal is […]
- Meta-designing Design Education Today the types of services, forms of media, and methods of creation a designer will confront in their future career are as broad in scope as they are uncertain. It’s no longer reasonable to study only a discrete area of specialization that may, four years later, be largely outdated. Design education has begun to focus […]
- Gender and Clothing: Garments that encourage performativity and play All clothing is gendered, but for some it becomes a place of anxiety and social pressure. Whether masculine or feminine, there is often a strain to fit into certain expressions of genderidentities. Gender Performance Clothing is a project aiming to create garments that encourage active performativity and play, allowing for a more fluid experience of […]
- Resilient Systems and Sustainable Qualities Small, local, open and connected: an emerging scenario For a long time, we have known that, whatever our future society will be, it will be a “risk society” [2]—a society likely to be affected by different kinds of traumatic events (from natural catastrophes, to war and terrorism, to financial and economic crisis). We have known […]
- Health Design: Interview with Jonathan Aitken View PDF
- Anthropology & Design “An increasingly common approach to graphic design research involves the application of user-centred design (UCD) methods. The focus of a UCD methodology is to understand and accommodate the needs of users and audience members as a means for improving the designed artifact.” [1] Design practice is centred on audience(s). It matters little whether the audience […]
- Joining Research, Art & Design In the last ten years the word Research has become an increasing part of our vocabulary. Wielding the word like a talisman, we seek to reframe what we do to join with what have been largely science and humanities groups in the conversation of knowledge and artifact production. It can feel like cozying up to […]
