Faculty Research + Pedagogy

In a third-year class led by ECU faculty member Heather Young, students were challenged to develop sustainable, ethical and culturally appropriate design practices.

The event invited students, faculty, alumni and other art and design industry professionals to hear from and offer feedback to fourth-year students about their work.

The curricular hackathon, which provides work-integrated learning while students earn degree credits, is part of the Technology Pathways for Creative Futures program.

Faculty member Poh Tan and her three co-presenters will speak on integrating arts and science in culturally appropriate ways.

The designer and ECU faculty member reconnected with his country’s rich cultural history, working on commissions for documentaries about seminal artistic figures.

Celebrated artists including Gabriel Osorio, Hugo Covarrubias and Shin'ichirō Watanabe delivered workshops and screenings as part of the festival’s first-ever Canadian showcase.

The year-long project brought together researchers and designers from ECU, the City of Vancouver and community to explore new ways of designing just climate futures.

The artist and ECU faculty member has been leading a group of student researchers to develop virtual pre-production assets for her film in development, Mama D’Lo.

ECU faculty member Christian Blyt, who taught the class of student designers, says A Simple Supper (also known as the Cart Project) spotlights the versatility, durability and aesthetic potential of recycled lumber.

The filmmaker and ECU faculty member brings a pair of personal projects to the renowned fellowship programs in New Mexico and New York.

The designer, ECU faculty member and alum developed his award-winning ∞ Chair during his studies in the ECU Master of Design program.

NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind), a drama based on a true story told to Lindsay by her grandmother, has collected more than a half dozen awards and screened at more than 20 festivals internationally.

Emily Carr University ranks sixth among post-secondaries internationally and second in Canada.

The designer and ECU faculty member says she is honoured to be counted among the amazing women who comprise this year’s nominees.

The filmmaker and ECU faculty member was lauded by reviewers for his “ingenious” handling of the film’s themes and form.

A recent project brought Providence Lane Homestead cofounder Tara Klager into collaboration with faculty member Hélène Day Fraser’s industrial design class.

In collaboration with nonprofit The Power of Play, emerging designers apply their know-how to bring bespoke play-spaces to kids across the globe.

The designer and educator worked for months with set designer Amir Ofek and his team to source, stitch and hang the immersive textile installation.

Lab: Here//Too//For features a series of workshops and public events throughout the summer and fall featuring international designers and artists from across disciplines.

NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ, which was celebrated by the jury for its “moving,” “visceral” power, is based on a story told to Lindsay by her grandmother.

A new exhibition at the ECU Library + Archives showcases industrial design objects drawn from the Roman Izdebski Industrial Design Collection, held by the Department of Design & Dynamic Media.

The designer, educator and Canada Research Chair in Design and Media Arts reveals how artists regularly transform the technologies that mediate our everyday lives.

Designer Eugenia Bertulis teaches students how to use Interaction Design to investigate the complex histories and functions of the local waterway.

The first Design Educators Conference to take place in Vancouver, the 2022 conference theme is learn, unlearn, relearn.

An annual report puts ECU’s animation programs at number six worldwide and number two in the country.

The designer and ECU faculty member dove into regional art and design to create the titles and poster for the award-winning Brazilian film River of Desire.

Designer and ECU faculty member Leo Vicenti helped lead the development of the scholarship which aims to support Indigenous voices in design.

On the occasion of her promotion to full professor, the designer and ECU faculty member reflects on the possibility of change.

The thoughtful furniture objects designed by students during a 2019 course were recently featured in an industry publication.

The artist, designer and ECU faculty member approaches the ‘continuous work of decolonization through the lens of language.’

The designer and ECU faculty member is asking how design can provide clarity, insights and strategic approaches to understanding — and combatting — climate change.

In High/Low, an exhibition currently showing at Emily Carr, students in Christian Blyt’s industrial design course spotlight solutions for turning reclaimed Douglas fir into new home furnishings.

A recent collaboration between WALRUS boutique in Vancouver and Emily Carr University saw design students create homewares for the WALRUS community, with an eye to the ways COVID-19 has shifted dynamics between people and their homes.

“Land-based” design and teaching emphasize local histories, relationships to place, and Indigenous sovereignty.

The designer and ECU faculty member was recognized for her contributions to student development and pedagogical research.

Teaching design to help heal a broken relationship between human beings and the rest of the planet.

The Spring 2021 semester saw project lead and ECU faculty member Eugenie Cheon’s COMD310 Communication Design class addressing an issue of digital access and inclusion by proposing redesigns for one of DABC’s websites, which focuses on the Tax Aid program.

Now in its fourth year, the program is co-led by designer, Emily Carr University faculty member and director of the Health Design Lab at ECU, Caylee Raber, and designer, Health Design Lab project lead and ECU faculty member Jon Hannan.

“Everybody deserves their story to be told,” says the Seattle-based designer, researcher and ECU faculty member.

The designer and ECU professor brings an emphasis on personhood and agency to the practice of designing for an event as old as the world.

Ramon Tejada and Eugenie Cheon on opening up design practice to messiness, uncertainty and diverse ways of knowing.

The prize will go to support The Words We Can’t Speak, a forthcoming feature film written, directed and produced by the artist and ECU faculty member.

‘We’re all broadcasters now,’ says the digital artist and ECU faculty member.

Students studying remotely are learning skills that could set them up for success in a workforce fundamentally redefined by the pandemic, says web designer and ECU faculty member Patrick McDonald.

The new curriculum from designer and ECU faculty member Katherine Gillieson builds resilience by turning a critical lens on the practice of design itself.

In partnership with BC Cancer, 18 students designed welcoming, supportive seating for cancer patients and families.

The Stationery Project transforms paper waste into thoughtfully-designed new products.