— ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THIS JOURNAL IS THE PRODUCT of many conversations, meetings, hours of writing and editing, and many reviews. We could not have realized this project without the support of Dr. Ron Burnett, Dr. Robert Inkster and Dawn Whitworth of the Industry Research Office, Dr. Glen Lowry, Chair of Online Learning & External Collaborations, Associate Professor and Senior Design Researcher Jim Budd, Sessional Faculty Member Casey Hrynkow, Annual Fund & Alumni Officer Eva Bouchard, Communications Officer Roxanne Toronto, Sylvia Iredale, Director of University Advance- ment, Grant Gregson, Coordinator of the Teaching Learning Cen- tre, David Ayre, Coordinator of Information Applications, Chris Brougham, Director of Information Technology, the Writing Cen- tre faculty members, the library staff and B-Line Creative. This journal would not have been possible without the contribu- tions of the following people: SOCS 309 FOO1 Fall 2008: Development of design proposal, project brief, and presentation for external review// Anna Bohn, Paulina Campos-Alcocer, Yu Chun Chen, Annabelle Choi, Rinat De Pic- ciotto, Patrick Christie, Lisa Fraser, Katelynn Gillette, Nicole Jang, Danielle Jasinski, Brodie Kitchen, William Koruna, Alexander Koxma, Ryszard Krukowski, Isabel Lau, Kevin Lewandowski, Jacky Ling, Cameron McKague, Caylee Raber, Jared Rhind, Steph- anie Vacher, Pinar Undeger, Hamza Vora, Kathleen Westerhout, Hurley Wu, and Ying-Shuen Wu. SOCS 309 FOO2 Fall 2008: Development of design proposal, project brief, and presentation for external review// Sara Ahn, Kriza Borromeo, Yiftah Bouzaglo, Yolande Bright, Andy Chen, Andrew Chow, Brandon Cotter, Sara Duell, Diane Espiritu, Victoria Hartleb, Sara Hung, Alexandra Kenefick, Jacob Kownacki, Evans Li, Brian Liu, Amiel Logan, Adam Lupton, Tobias Ottahal, Maryam Rahi, Dana Ramler, Jayson Rupert, Stephanie Sauve, Alanna Scott, Dong-Hee Suh, Kimberly Sutherland, Cheylene Tattersall, and Kateryna Yanova. 40 CURRENT SOCS 309 FOO1 Fall 2009: Researching and writing of praxis papers// David Aitken, Thais Amaral, Sarah Bailey, Meriliese Cabebe, Andrew Campbell, Cynthia Chang, Yu-Chih Chen, Eunji Choi, Lavinia Chu, Shannon Chu, Jennifer Cook, Shannon Craver, Kevin Creighton, Michael Finaldi, Mina Chaani, James Hallam, Lucia Hsieh, Antonella Jahn, Aina Kawamoto, Eun Jin Kim, Juljka Klinger, Chun Lam, Adam Lillico, Vince Lo, Jason Lu, Lina Mejia, Alejandro Rebora, Rachel Simpson, Yeh-Yun Tiau, Liz To, Paige Vanderkemp, Dara Wren, Joey Zhao. SOCS 309 F002 Fall 2009: Researching and writing of praxis papers// Adam Archer, Andrew Bagatella, Bo Cao, Sandy Chen, Shelley Chen, Chun Yin Chou, Yan Chung, Adrien Guenette, Michele Guimond, Erica Hargreaves, Lu Huang, Derek Ing, Sepehr Jalali, Yu Kwan, Billy Lam, Christopher Lam, Polly Lau, Florence Liang, Shelagh Mclellan, Ashley Nawrot, Scott Piekema, Nireesha Prakash, Jacquie Quenneville, Bahador Saray, Rafael Tan, Artem Titov, Dalen Tripp, Kirsty Tsang, David Westwood and Judy Wong. SOCS 309 S001 Spring 2009: Researching and writing of praxis papers// Dean Bennett, Thomas Burden, Alex Buss, Phoebe Chan, Den- ise Cymbalist, Angela Dawn, Vanessa Dong, Jason Edwards, Rita Ewanyshyn, Monica Gautier, Angela Henderson, Dave Knill, Andrea Kuric, Vivien Li, Tina Lu, Ron Luther, Shiran Meng, Ginger Ngo, Ryan Nussbacher, Mark Stokoe, Pamela Troyer, Andy Wang, Angus Wong. DESN 324 Spring 2010// Dara Wren, Thais Amaral, Pamela Troyer, Meriliese Cabebe, Nireesha Prakash, Dawei Yang, Jared Korb, Michael Lee, Juljka Klingler, Judy Wong, Leonie Hau, Diana Wu and Michael Finaldi. Acknowledgment of Financial Support: CURRENT is grateful for the support of the ECU President’s Research Fund, the University’s Industry and Research Office, and our advertisers for funding the first issue of the design journal. A SPECIAL THANK YOU is given to Deborah Shackleton. This publica- tion would not have been possible without her vision, hard work and devotion to academic excellence. THANK YOU!