Founded in 1928, the CAA is both traditional and profoundly innovative.

Got a chance to interview Vancouver's arts & culture champion and my old boss at Emly Carr Sir Ron Burnett on the topic of Creative Leadership #FuelVan #thnkVan - with Ron Burnett at Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company.

To think that we are a university of art and design! And, in being this unique and specialized place  we are a rarity.

Many of the teaching tools described in this video foresaw today's use of technologies in all aspects of our lives. A fascinating time capsule.

A group of Presidents from Art Schools from all over the world attended a meeting in December at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Here are some pictures.

Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner is on a mission to make eye-catching art from everyday science.

Yesterday, a historic announcement! The BC government will be contributing 113 million dollars to the construction of a new campus for Emily Carr.

Over the course of a year, I receive many proposals from consultants to talk to me about the services they have and how my organization will benefit from using their knowledge

As Design moves into the mainstream of contemporary thought, collaboration among designers and many other disciplines, but especially Engineering, will be crucial for the future.

Many academic colleagues may be unaware but Vancouver, Canada, has just played host (May 29-June 3) to the largest gathering of higher education practitioners in the world,

Over the years (17 to be exact), this web site has turned into a vast enterprise.

Imagine a world in which the daily experience of attending school does not exist.

According to Nathan Myhrvold, steaming vegetables is actually worse than boiling, largely because boiling reaches the right temperature more quickly than steaming.

Malcolm Gladwell has a terrific article in the most recent New Yorker on college ratings in the United States. Gladwell shows quite conclusively that the ratings are largely determined by the individuals and companies that produce them.

I recently had the privilege of talking to a group of parents about the culture of schools and the education that their children were receiving during what is clearly a transitional phase in the history of education.