Faculty of Culture + Community
The Faculty of Culture + Community
The Faculty of Culture + Community forges meaningful and engaged partnerships with the larger community, industry and other institutions and universities.
The mandate of the Faculty of Culture + Community includes sustainability, both environmental and social, effective communication strategies and adaptive, innovative curriculum able to respond to changing social conditions.
The Faculty of Culture + Community is comprised of diverse curriculum areas of the University, and facilitates internal and external collaborations. Included in this faculty are the Foundation and Film, Video + Integrated Media programs, Visual Culture and English, Community Projects, and our new interdisciplinary SPACE Minor.
The Faculty of Culture + Community is a site for innovative curriculum development and research projects that offer students a context and ethical framework for ongoing community engagement.
The Spring 2012 Term
This term, Natalie Doonan is teaching Yes in My Backyard
where students will collaborate with Pivot Legal Society in their YIMBY Campaign, which aims to gain public support for programs that make housing accessible to everyone. Students will learn how to apply their unique skills as practicing artists, in working with issues of housing and homelessness.
Holly Schmidt is teaching Communities of Practice: Art + Pedagogy
where students will gain a theoretical understanding of the critical role art plays in the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of children and youth. Students will be introduced to pedagogy and methods that inform the design, delivery, and evaluation of community-based arts programming.
Zoe Kreye is teaching Love Play Politics: A Seminar on Engaged Art
where students will explore questions like, "Can art be a re-enactment of a riot, a coffee shop talk show, a community memory bank, an immigrant resource center, a school of life, a post-disaster street play, a prisoners dream house or an invisible country?" All of these ideas exemplify a shift within contemporary art towards community engagement and the possibility that art can be a catalyst for social change.
Lois Klassen and Cindy Mochizuki are teaching Archive City where students will be offered the opportunity to encounter and collaborate in creative projects that are situated within the city’s known and unknown collections. Where are the places that contain the city’s stories and histories? Whose voices are spoken there, and whose are silenced through those collections and archives? How do artists and designers approach and intervene in those places and with those voices?
News
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| February 15, 2012 | Emily Carr Students 'Animate' Canada Line |
| April 8, 2011 | PNE Container Art 2011 | Call For Submissions |
| March 31, 2011 | Navigating the Ethics of Representation: Straight Choice |
| March 8, 2011 | Navigating Ethical Representation | Interurban Gallery |
| March 7, 2011 | TransLink and Emily Carr Present Art on Transit | A Collaborative Public Art Project |
| March 3, 2011 | Generation Green Awards | Application Deadline March 4 |
| February 24, 2011 | Dennis Burke | Musical Scores + Sound Design |
| February 24, 2011 | Harry Killas | Picture Start |
| February 7, 2011 | Heidi May + Jody Baker | CAA New York 2011 |
Links
Contacts
John Wertschek, Assistant Dean
Current Culture + Community Faculty
