typography and publication design. She has a
BFA and MFA from the University of Iowa. Her
creative work examines the forms of written
language, the shapes of letters and structures
of text and their relationship to space. She is
an editor of Current, the university’s design
research journal, and a member of Emily Carr’s
Senate. Her current design research focuses
on the development of enhanced interactive
ebooks and the categorization of emerging
formal structures in book design for touch-based
mobile devices.

CAMERON NEAT
Communication Design in the Ian Gillespie

is an Assistant Professor of

Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media at Emily
Carr University of Art + Design. He holds a
MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island
School of Design and has eighteen plus years
of professional design experience. His areas of
research interest include, typography, visual
rhetoric and information design.

CAYLEE RABER is the Director of the Health
Design Lab at Emily Carr University of Art +
Design. Within this role, Caylee establishes
and leads health design projects that bring
together faculty and students with industry
and community partners to improve health
services and products through a human-
centred design approach. This includes collab-
orations with Vancouver Coastal Health,
Providence Health Care, Ministry of Health,
Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation,
BC Children’s Hospital and many other
local start-ups and non-profit organizations.
Caylee’s research interest lies in the use
of co-design and participatory research
methodologies as a way to support the improve-
ment of health product, services and systems
through a community and patient-centred
focus. Within the lab, Caylee leads research
projects related to quality improvement,
hospital redevelopment, and service design
using participatory and community-based
research methodologies.

HALINA RACHELSON is a Masters student of
Urban Planning at the University of British
Columbia and has partnered with civil engineers
in designing an enhanced mobility network
system for the City of Kelowna based on the
Dutch bicycle network design guidelines. She
also worked in a team with emerging architects

in reimagining a South Florida barrier island,
and designed culturally-appropriate and resil-
ient infrastructure to adapt to 2075 sea level rise
projections.

ELIZABETH B.-N SANDER joined the Design
Department at The Ohio State University in 2011
after working in industry as a design research
consultant since 1981. She introduced many
of the methods and tools being used today to
drive and inspire design from a human-centered
perspective and has practiced co-designing
across all the design disciplines. Liz is also the
founder of MakeTools, LLC where she works
at the front end of the changes taking place
today in design. Her academic research focuses
on generative design research, collective
creativity, and transdisciplinarity. She shares
her experiences in human-centered design with
clients, colleagues, and students around the
world. Liz’s goal is to bring participatory, human-
centered design practices to the challenges we
face for the future.

STACTE SCHATZ is a fourth year interaction
design student at Emily Carr University and
has been working as a Research Assistant
within the Health Design Lab for three years.
In this role, she has worked with the Provincial
Health Services Authority to explore ways
to increase fruit and vegetable consumption
through interventions in the grocery store
context, and with the Pacific Autism Family
Network to enhance families’ access to Autism
research and information. Her primary focus has
been in service design, more specifically she is
interested in design’s potential to promote and
create opportunities for civic engagement and
social innovation.

DEBORAH SHACKLETON is the Dean of
Design and Dynamic Media and an Associate
Professor who teaches design research and
methods in the MDes program. Deborah’s
research and teaching interests include design
theory, human-centred designing, and learning
theory for design development. In addition to
her administrative role and teaching practice
Deborah is a published designer, writer and
photographer whose work has been recognized
nationally and internationally. She is one of the
founding editors of the award-winning Current
(http://current.ecuad.ca) the University's design
research journal, the founding Chair of the EcU

Research Ethics Board, and a certified member
of the Society of Graphic Designers.

ADELE THERIAS is a Bachelors student of
Geography at the University of British Columbia
and has conducted community-based research
with the City of Surrey in which she evaluated
a food security program by conducting expert
interviews, a public survey, and a geospatial
analysis on food accessibility. She proposed
improvements for future City projects related
to food access. She also worked with the Social
Planning Council of Williams Lake to conduct
focus groups and interviews in the community
around transportation and youth employment
rates. The group produced an alternative
transportation proposal.

CAMERON TONKINWISE is the Professor of
Interdisciplinary Design at the School of Design,
University of Technology, Sydney. He returned
to Australia after a decade in North America
holding the positions of Director Doctoral
Studies at School of Design, Carnegie Mellon
University, Associate Dean Sustainability at
the Parsons School of Design and Co-Chair of
the Tishman Environment and Design Center
at the New School in New York City. Cameron
has a background in continental philosophy of
technology, but the focus of Cameron’s current
research and teaching is sustainable design,
service design and sharing economies. With
colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, he has
been developing Transition Design, a collection
of techniques for design-enabled multi-stage
change toward more sustainable futures.

ET WEBB isa Bachelors student of Industrial
Design at Emily Carr University and has
worked with a local educational institution to
develop an interactive textile based system that
could enable and empower children who have
learning differences. She also collaborated with
Vancouver's Fraser Health Authority to design an
internal facing campaign to promote self-care.
The goal of this project was to refocus attention
on staff and emphasize their importance to
healthcare, while humanizing them to patients.