Conferences & Symposiums

Emily Carr is pleased to host the Design Thinking unConference – a two-day immersion in ideas, projects and practice exploring the craft of Design Thinking.

Design Thinking is both critical thinking about design and the application of design to a broad range of business and social problems. This event will move the conversation about Design Thinking forward on all fronts.

At its most fundamental, drawing is the act of making marks on a surface. This symposium aims to explore the expanding definition of drawing, by juxtaposing traditional and non-traditional approaches to mark-making.

The symposium, chaired by Dr. Monique Fouquet, will include speakers Diyan Achjadi, Lucie Chan, Roman Izdebski, Beth Howe, David MacWilliam, Elizabeth MacKenzie, Ben Reeves, Vjeko Sager, Durwin Talon, Renée Van Halm, and Neil Wedman.

This year’s conference seeks to gauge and engage the current state of Canadian academic research across the fields of art, history, philosophy, critical and cultural studies. Presenting critical and creative explorations into the potentially rich contradictions inherent in criticizing culture while earnestly taking part in producing it.

Liminal Positions aims to provide a forum for the notion of “in-betweenness”. Asking where the “work” of art actually occurs and considering the role of the artist within commodity culture. And conversely, how cultural analysts have approached writing to theorizing popular culture or current events.

Join the Social + Interactive Media Centre for show + tech: come out + play 

An opportunity to hear about the latest, greatest & craziest digital art and design projects at Emily Carr and around Vancouver. This month's theme is: come out + play!

Leading academics, professionals and artists will gather at Emily Carr University of Art + Design for the International Digital Media and Art Association’s 8th annual conference to explore how digital media and art is informing, challenging and reinventing our notions of narrative structures and storytelling. The conference will include pre-conference workshops, keynote and plenary presentations, panels, networking, discussions, social events as well as opportunities to explore Emily Carr’s Intersections Digital Studios and Social and Interactive Media Centre.

Please visit the IDMAA conference website for registration information.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design hosts an all-day symposium On the Edge of Chaos: Contemporary Neuroscience, Creative Patterns and Material Production to explore how the study of the brain and neuroscience can shed light on art-making and creative processes.

Emily Carr Institute (ECI) and the the BC Innovation Council (BCIC) host an event to showcase current student projects gaining international momentum for potential commercial success. The Honourable Murray Coell, Minister of Advanced Education and Minister Responsible for Research and Technology, will be in attendance.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
1:30pm
Emily Carr Institute
Charles H. Scott Gallery

For complete details, please see the Media Release.

Consultations on Transit - Is there a U-Pass in our future?

Join the ECI Students' Union for a discussion with keynote speakers Jim Green and Bruce Ralston for a deliberative dialogue on public transit.

Monday, January 28
11:30am-2pm
Room 236, North Building

Email su@eciad.ca for more information, or to submit a statement.

In the Spring of 2007, ECI Lecturer and PLA Coordinator, Sheila Hall and Associate Professor, Sam Carter, traveled to the Philippines to establish two internships supported by ECI for Industrial Design students Raneen Nosh and Jeff Werner. The three-month internship was divided into two separate projects. The first project was with the Rurungan sa Tubod Foundation in Puerto Princesa on the Island of Palawan. The Rurungan Foundation creates an alternative livelihood for women in the more poverty-stricken rural areas of Palawan.