CONTRIBUTORS

KATE ARMSTRONG has over 15 years experience
in the culture sector with a specific focus on
intersections between art and technology.
Her interdisciplinary practice is conceptually
driven and has included participatory work,
objects, photography, video, events in
urban space, generative text systems, and
experimental narrative forms. As a curator
she has produced exhibitions, events and
publications in contemporary art and technology
in Vancouver and internationally. She founded
Upgrade Vancouver as part of an international
network of art and technology organizations
in 30 cities, was a founder of the Goethe
Satellite, an initiative of the Goethe-Institute
that produced ten exhibitions in Vancouver
between 2011-2013, and is past President of
the board of the Western Front (2007-2014).
Armstrong serves on the boards of Bc Artscape,
Innovation Central Society (Ics), and the New
Forms Festival.

CATTLIN CHATSSON is an artist and writer
based in Vancouver, BC. She received a Master’s
of Applied Arts at Emily Carr University of Art
and Design in 2016, and holds a BComm with
a Minor in Art History from the University
of British Columbia. She has exhibited at the
Charles H. Scott Gallery (2016), Hyphenated
Sites (2016) and Ground Gallery (2015). Her
writing has been published in Espace Magazine
(Montréal), Breach Magazine (Vancouver), and
Decoy Magazine (Vancouver).

JORGE FRASCARA is Professor Emeritus and
former Chairman, Art and Design, University
of Alberta; Honorary Professor, Emily
Carr University; Fellow, Society of Graphic
Designers of Canada; Former-President of
Ico-D (International Council of Design);
Advisor, Doctorate in Design, IUAV University
of Venice, and Editorial Board Member of Visible
Language, Design Issues and Information Design
Journal. He published more than 90 articles and
ten books, the last being Information Design
as Principled Action (Common Ground, 2015),
and was guest editor of a special issue of Visible
Language (49/1-2, 2015) on Design and Health.
He was advisor to the International Standards
Organization (iso), the Canadian Standards
Association and the Canadian Standards
Council on public information symbols. He
has been a guest lecturer in 26 countries and
has received honors from eight countries for

his socially-oriented practice and promotion
of communication design. Past clients include
the Government of Canada, the Government of
Alberta, the Mission Possible Coalition (traffic
safety), the Alberta Drug Utilization Program,
Alberta Health Services, and the Health
Services in Italy. He lives in Edmonton, Canada,
consulting on communication design for health
and safety.

LISA H.GROCOTT is the head of department
and Professor of Design at Monash University.
Before coming to Monash Lisa spent the
past 12 years at Parsons School of Design in
New York where she was Dean of Academic
Initiatives and core faculty in the Masters
of Transdisciplinary Design. Lisa’s research
specifically examines the contribution of the
people-centred, speculation-driven practice of
design in interdisciplinary collaborations. Her
collaborations with cognitive psychologists,
education researchers and behavioral change
experts has been awarded more than $2.5 million
in federal funding and applied industry research
collaborations. At Monash she has founded
WonderLab a co-design research lab that has
at its heart a pop-up PhD cohort of researchers
operating at the intersection of design, learning
and play. Lisa is currently exploring how we shift
beliefs and practices through her role as chief
investigator of an Australian Research Council
grant on Innovative Learning Environments and
Teacher Change.

LEAH KARLBERG is a Bachelors student of
Geography at the University of British Columbia
and has applied social justice to technical
problems in the Bay Area where she worked
alongside a neighborhood to design adaptation
strategies against various predictions of sea
level rise, taking into account the areas specific
demographics and collective capacity. She has
engaged in project management by developing
and implementing a multi-faceted campaign at
Vancouver’s Granville Island to address the city’s
highest rates of bicycle theft, reducing rates of
bicycle theft by 60% by the end of the project.

STEPHANIE KOENTG is a Bachelors student
of Industrial Design at Emily Carr University
and has represented North America in the
2017 Schneider Electric Go Green in the City
competition. This was both a business and
engineering competition, where students were

asked to develop proposals for implementing
renewable energy systems into future urban
environments. She worked collaboratively with
ateam of community members to create designs
for the Local Prosperity Conference in support
of local economic development in communities
across Nova Scotia.

LAURA KOZAK is a designer, educator, and
organizer. For fifteen years she has built
partnerships and collaborated on projects with
artists and organizations including Access
Gallery, 221A, the Association of Independent
Colleges of Art and Design, the Aboriginal
Housing Society, the Vancouver Park Board,
and the City of Vancouver. She holds a Master
of Advanced Studies in Architecture from
UBC (2012) and a BFA from Emily Carr (2005),
and currently teaches in the Master of Design
program at Emily Carr.

JUSTIN LANGLOTS is an artist, educator, and
organizer. He is the co-founder and research
director of Broken City Lab, an artist-led
collective working to explore the complexities
of locality, infrastructures, and participation in
relation to civic engagement and social change,
and he is the founder of The School for Eventual
Vacancy. His practice explores collaborative
structures, critical pedagogy, and custodial
frameworks as tools for gathering, learning, and
making. He is currently an Associate Professor
in the Faculty of Culture + Community and
Academic Coordinator of the Imagining Our
Future initiative at Emily Carr University of Art
and Design.

EZ10 MANZINTI works in the field of design
for social innovation and, on this topic, he
started DESIS Network. Presently, he is
Distinguished Professor on Design for Social
Innovation at Elisava-Design School and
Engineering, Barcelona; Honorary Professor
at the Politecnico di Milano; and Guest
Professor at Tongji University (Shanghai) and
Jiangnan University (Wuxi). His most recent
book is “Design, When Everybody Designs.
An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation”,
MIT Press 2015.

CELESTE MARTIN is an Associate Professor
at Emily Carr. She has a background in
communication design and specializes in