Conferences & Symposiums

Join filmmaker/activist and alumnus Jason DaSilva ('08) as he maps Vancouver hotspots for accessibility.

We invite all Emily Carr and The Vancouver School of Art alumni to join join us for an exciting weekend of reunion activities.

Register Now! Space is limited.

Emily Carr's Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media is holding a Design Forum Emerging Spaces in Design. The forum features the work of some of our best fourth year Communication, Interaction and Industrial Design students.

This is a great opportunity to see what Design at Emily Carr is all about and meet a few of our faculty and students. The projects encompass a wide range of outcomes, including tablet based apps, medical assistive devices, and new ideas on storytelling, all sharing an enthusiasm for research-based design applied to socially relevant problems.

Here's a full list of the students presenting and their projects:

Bobbi Kyle, eddit, combining education, design, interaction and technology.

Find out how 3D technology will revolutionize what you do at the 3D[FWD] Conference.

Emily Carr’s S3D Centre and The International 3D Society will host 3D[FWD], a conference focused on the business of 3D, on January 24 and 25 at the Vancity Theatre. The conference brings together leaders from a cross-section of industries, such as healthcare, advertising, entertainment, and digital media to explore the impact of 3D technology in today’s marketplace and for the future.

*Update - Beginning at 7pm (PST) we will be live-streaming all of the conference proceedings, and invite you to join us from wherever you are in the world - Remaking Research Live-stream.

The Comeback is a two-day alumni event that will bring together students, alumni and the public to relive and uncover the diverse creativity and innovation taking place behind the scenes at Emily Carr's Granville Island campus.  Presented in conjunction with Emily Con! and the City of Vancouver's Culture Days, The Comeback invites Emily Carr/Vancouver School of Art alumni to come back to engage and participate in several key events:

Innovation is the key to business success.

Profit x Design is bringing together the best business minds, designers and investment gurus in the country, to give you the tools, skills and strategies you need to drive a more innovative and lucrative enterprise.

Participants will learn about process and strategy from top innovators like RIM, Bombardier and Lululemon and leading creative business minds such as Risky Business TV host, former Dragon’s Den panelist, and popular entrepreneur W. Brett Wilson; President of Day4 Energy, George Rubin; Wavefront’s Wireless Accelerator Architect, Brad Lowe; and Angel Investor Extraordinaire Mike Volker.

Profit x Design will provide you with the leadership methods that catalyze creative thinking:

Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s Stereoscopic 3D (S3D) Centre, with the support of GRAND NCE & the Consulate General of France, Vancouver, present a Masterclass, The Art of 3D Storytelling with Joséphine Derobe, February 10 + 11, 2012.

Emily Carr and the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) are pleased to present the programme of the 5th ELIA Leadership Symposium: ‘W/Here: Contesting Knowledge in the 21st Century.’

W/Here brings together leaders from art schools across the globe for an important and timely discussion of the changing role of art education today. Art and design learning in the 21st century has been transformed, in large part as a result of the explosion of digital cultures and the acceleration generated by attendant technologies.

Continuing Studies is excited to introduce Second Nature Lab, a creative and experimental investigation of the relationship between humans and the natural world. Design-builds, public walks, workshops and events will investigate topics such as technology, sustainable design, agriculture, and food fermentation. Through the lenses of art, design, technology and architecture, Second Nature Lab brings together a diverse cast of thinkers and makers to collaborate and exchange ideas for regeneration. Curated by Holly Schmidt.