This short film is about the creation of the new Mace for Emily Carr University by Alum, Xwa Lack Tun...
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This short piece is adapted from a lecture I gave some years ago about the way disciplines, in particular film studies, develop into departments within universities. How do disciplines stay alive and remain current and connected to the social and...
L-R, Board Chair Dr. George Pedersen, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell, Premier Gordon Campbell Emily Carr Institute will now be known as Emily Carr University of Art and Design! This historic change to university status reflects the fact that...
By Jay Gazley (Jay is a graduate student of mine at Emily Carr Institute) (I will be putting more research from Graduate Students at Emily Carr on this Blog over the next while.) Since the advent of industrialization there has...
The context for learning, education and the arts has altered dramatically over the last few years as has the cultural environment for educators and artists/creators. Part of what I would like to do here is examine the intersection of a number of crucial developments that I think have transformed the terrain of technology, education, art and culture.
Honoured guests, Dr. George Pederson, Chair of the Board of Governors, members of the Board, Graduates, Faculty, Staff, Families and Friends, today I will speak to you about some of the challenges that we will all face in the near future and the crucial role that the graduates from this institution will play in the future well-being of our society and of Emily Carr Institute.
The notion of learning communities needs to be deepened through an analysis of institutions and how they function. If we are going to create a new model for learning, then it will have to stand the test of organizational restructuring...
(Photographs by William Cupit)...
I recently held an information session for over 70 students at Emily Carr Institute to discuss Intellectual Property and its impact on artists and designers. IP is a confusing and troubling topic. I created a Powerpoint presentation which can be...
40.5 M for Canada’s first Digital Media graduate program
For those of you that may not know about the Web Site run by John Brockman, connect here to THE EDGE, which, as its title suggests is about "edgy" thinking. At the beginning of each year, Brockman invites readers to contribute to a debate through a question that he poses. This year's question goes as follows:
Wikipedia and Art Schools
If Wikipedia were an art school, what would it look like?
In an essay written in 1982, Shoshana Felman described some paradoxical statements made by Socrates and Freud on education and learning.
I recently attended a meeting in the Netherlands on learning in the Arts and Sciences entitled Building the Scientific Mind with the following aims: identify important dimensions and attributes of the scientific mind, from the holistic perspective; determine the conditions...
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