SPACE Minor
Social Practice and Community Engagement (SPACE) is an interdisciplinary minor housed within the Faculty of Culture and Community, for students in any Degree program, which allows them to focus on social practice, ecology and sustainability, documentary practices or community projects as a Minor for their degree. As part of the SPACE Minor, students will have the opportunity to engage with real world issues and problems through applied art, media and design. The SPACE Minor will create bridges and engage students with citizen groups, industry, non-profit organizations, arts groups, the public school system and other related organizations.
The two required courses for the SPACE Minor, provide an ethical framework for community engagement that will assist students in internships and external collaboration of all kinds, and provide an overall context for social practices. The Faculty of Culture and Community will draw credits from existing courses in all undergraduate degrees that fit the mandate of the minor. The minor will also be supplemented with some new courses that are in development and will be available as elective credits.
(Total credits for Minor: 18)
Required Courses (9 credits)
SOCS 302: The Ethics of Representation (3 cr)
HUMN 304: Social Practice Seminar (3 cr)
Internship: CO-OP or curricular, in 3rd or 4th year (3 cr) or
CCID 200/ CCID 300: Community Projects (3cr)
Electives
Design and Dynamic Media
ISMA 207: Video for Social Media
ISMA 301: Social Media Projects
INDD 318: Sustainable Design Strategies
INDD 317: Health Design Medical and Assisted Devices
Visual Art and Material Practice
PHOT 309: Photographic Installations
PHOT 318: Audience + Communities
PHOT 319: Telling Story (on-Line)
SCLP 315: Sculpture and Social Spaces
SCLP 317: Sculpture: Public Sculpture
SCLP 218 / SCLP 318: Sculp: Install/Site Specific
Culture and Community
FVIM 300: FVIM Internship Documentary Practices (with internship)
FVIM 300: FVIM Internship Experimental Practices (with internship)
CCID 200/ CCID 300: Community Projects
CCID 301: Soc. Prac. + Comm. Engagement Special Topics in SPACE
Critical and Cultural Studies:
Current Community Projects Courses (CCID 200/ CCID 300)
Fall 2011: Dr. Peters Aids Foundation has been offered as a Community Projects course since Spring 2010. This course provides students with an ethical framework and methodologies for community practice. It focuses especially on projects that involve collaboration with marginal and at-risk communities such as the DTES (Downtown Eastside) in Vancouver. As part of this class, students at the Emily Carr University campus are given an opportunity to apply field research through site visits to the Dr. Peter Centre in Vancouver’s West End. The faculty team developing Community Projects includes Susan Stewart and Sabine Silberberg (co-instructors).
Recent Community Projects Courses (CCID 200/ CCID 300)
The Red Tent Campaign is another Community Projects course currently taught by Natalie Doonan. In this course, students collaborate with Pivot Legal Society in their Red Tent Campaign: Red Tent is an open source campaign spearheaded by Vancouver-based Pivot Legal Society. Across the country, individuals and organizations have become a part of the Red Tent Campaign to work toward the common goal of a funded national housing strategy that will end homelessness and ensure secure, adequate, accessible and affordable housing for all people living in Canada. http://www.redtents.org/ Students will learn how to apply their unique skills as practicing artists, in working with issues of housing and homelessness. Students will be guided through a collaborative process with Pivot Legal Society, in which they will develop a work in public space, with the goal of raising support for a Canadian National Housing Strategy.
Recent Exhibitions by our Community Projects Students
WRAP: A Student/Community Project
Emily Carr's Faculty of Culture + Community and the Downtown Business Improvement Association present a public art project on Granville Street. <read more>
