FUEL Conference: Vancouver
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.
Speech to the 2014 Graduating Class, Emily Carr University
To think that we are a university of art and design! And, in being this unique and specialized place we are a rarity.
Science as art as science
Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner is on a mission to make eye-catching art from everyday science.
A New campus and a new future for Emily carr university
Yesterday, a historic announcement! The BC government will be contributing 113 million dollars to the construction of a new campus for Emily Carr.
Notes on Experience and the Tacit
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
NAFSA 2011: A Parallel Universe by Sharon Joy Bell
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,
Learning in the 21st Century (2)
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.
Learning in the 21st Century (3)
Throughout this series, I have been focusing on the learner and the learning experience and trying to reconcile the difficult environment . . .
Learning in the 21st Century (4)
In Europe, the Bologna process has led to furious discussions about the purpose of universities largely because Bologna . . .
Emily Carr University Convocation 2010
Graduations are always auspicious occasions, special moments in time for you, -- students of Emily Carr University, and for us, faculty, staff and administrators — special because this event marks the both the beginning and the end of an important period in your lives and in ours.
Blurring boundaries
I have chosen to pursue a Masters of Applied Arts degree at the Emily Carr Institute (ECI) in order to investigate the emergent roles of artists and designers responding to the challenge of sustainable development and interdisciplinarity.
Relational Art and Social Value
Recent artistic practices employing relational aesthetics have re-legitimized socially driven and performative artistic works.
Let the Body do the Thinking
To what extent does the physical self of the artist affect the production of art? Many artists create from memory, imagination or research, but what would their art look like if it were created from a purely corporeal charge?
Tales of Immigration: Documenting an Invisible Chronicle
When the average viewer thinks of Indo-Canadian/American films, the image of Bollywood comes to mind.
Using Video Games in Immigrant Education and Learning
As we play we learn. The goal of my project is to provide new immigrants with the best advances in technology and education from the very beginning of their integration into the North American culture.
Object Connections
In a time when we are increasingly reliant on the internet and virtual technologies there is a greater need for objects that have a heightened physical sensibility and act as markers of our memories and personal experience.
Breakfast Speech on Learning, May 6, 2006 (Emily Carr Graduation)
“Most people believe that it is education that will save us. But this bland, sweeping, and unexamined assertion reduces us into continuing to uncritically support and tinker with the current story of schooling . . .”