Emily Carr Speaker Series

Katherine Benjamin | Digital strategist for Healthcare and Government; Lab Leader, Digital Government (Ontario)
MDes SPEAKER SERIES | Spring 2017 

Friday, March 3, 2017 | 4 - 5:30PM
Room 245, North Building

Can't someone else do it?

When are we empowering patients in digital healthcare, and when are we just being lazy?

Emily Carr invites you to a public lecture by Jürgen Partenheimer, Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence.

Jürgen Partenheimer | Renga: Dimensions of Abstraction

Featuring guest appearances by Aoife MacNamara, Nigel Prince, Nicholas Lea and Crystal Balint.


6:00 pm - Thursday, May 8, 2014 



Emily Carr Lecture Theatre - SB Room 301 

1400 Johnston Street, Vancouver

Maria Fusco is a Chancellor’s Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Fusco will reflect on the role of experimental forms of writing within the academic context, and how they may be used to critically engage with, and further embody, research-based practice. She interrogates the phenomenon of writing about art, writing about writing and art about writing, but primarily she is interested in is what she describes as “writing with art”.

Stephen Beal was appointed President of California College of the Arts in 2008, and previously served as Provost for 10 years. He has played a significant role in the expansion of the college’s programs and facilities and the implementation of key academic initiatives, including the Bachelors in Community Arts, the MA in Curatorial Practice and the MBA in Design Strategy.

TRUDEAU LECTURE
2012 FELLOW JANINE MARCHESSAULT

Emily Carr Lecture Theatre, SB Room 301
Followed by a reception in the Charles H Scott Gallery 

Going Public: Art, Urbanism, and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century

WILLEM DE KOONING ACADEMIE and PIET ZWART INSTITUTE

Over the past several years, the Willem de Kooning Academie/Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, Netherlands), have been involved in an ambitious project of “reinvention”, including major changes to programs, curriculum, and the ways in which the teaching and learning environment is conceived and developed. 

Visiting faculty members and academic administrators from Willem de Kooning and Piet Zwart will provide the Emily Carr community with an opportunity to engage visiting colleagues on principles and questions related to this project of reinvention.  

4:30 pm, Monday, December 9, 2013
Followed by a reception in the Atrium
Emily Carr Lecture Theatre - Room 301

Special Guest:  Patrizia Von Brandenstein, Academy-Award winning prouduction designer, AMADEUS will speak at Emily Carr on:

Thursday, April 25th | 7 to 8 pm | South Building Room 301 | Free

With a career spanning more than 40 years join us for an enthralling talk from one of cinema's most accomplished production designers.

The TD Speaker Series presents Peter Bil’ak: Depth + Width

Slovakian by birth, Peter Bil'ak is based in the Hague, Netherlands, and works in the field of editorial, graphic and type design and teaches at the Royal Academy of Arts. He heads the Typotheque Type Foundry in the Hague and co-founded the Indian Type Foundry in Ahmedabad, India. Bilak has an extensive publication history, including founding, editing and designing the art and design journal Dot Dot Dot. Most recently he has launched Works the Work, a magazine dedicated to practical, unexpected manifestations of creativity.

Emily Carr as part of the TD Speaker Series/Designer in Residence Program welcomes Kate Fletcher an international thought leader and researcher on sustainable fashion and textiles.

Over the last 15 years, Kate's original thinking and progressive outlook has infused the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability with design thinking, and come to define it. Kate is one of the founders of the ‘slow fashion’ movement and instigator of directional sustainability projects, including Local Wisdom, which has engaged hundreds of people worldwide with the ‘craft of use’ and ‘post-growth’ fashion and was shortlisted for the Observer Ethical Awards in 2010.

The Rennie Collection Speaker Series and Emily Carr University of Art + Design are pleased to present a public lecture by Dr. Cliff Lauson, Curator, Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London, UK.

Dr. Lauson's recent exhibitions include Tracey Emin (Love Is What You Want), Ernesto Neto (The Edges of the World) and Ron Terada (Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am). In addition to publishing texts in each of these exhibition catalogues, he has written for Art Monthly and contributed to Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. He wrote on Vancouver art and artists, in discussion with Lawrence Weiner and Dan Graham, for Fillip.