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= is the Director of the Health Design Lab and
Communication Design faculty at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
The Health Design Lab is a research centre that applies design thinking
to Health Care, bringing human-centred design research methodologies
to complex problems. Aitken’s education in Communication and
Industrial Design help him bring an interdisciplinary focus to his work.
Currently teaching in the graduate and undergraduate programs, Aitken
is particularly interested in how participatory design methodologies can
facilitate design research into large, complex problems.

ig a designer with a focus in digital publishing
strategies, production for web UI, and user-centred research for on-screen
interactivity. He received an MDes from Emily Carr University of Art +
Design in 2014, and is currently working at IDEO Palo Alto.

is Professor Emeritus of the University of Alberta,
Honorary Professor of Emily Carr University, Fellow of the Society of
Graphic Designers of Canada, and member of the Editorial Boards of

four journals. He has held leading positions at the University of Alberta,
Icograda, the 1s, the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, the Graphic
Design Education Association (USA) and the Canadian Standards Council.
He has published ten books and more than $0 articles internationally, and
has lectured and made presentations in more than twenty-five countries.
He now lives in Vancouver, Canada, and consults on information design.

ig an artist and designer whose work explores
the role of technology in contemporary society. She is Canada Research
Chair and Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art & Design.
She has presented her work internationally and has been featured in the
New York Times, the Huffington Post and the csc. Frid-Jimenez has won
numerous awards and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Bergen National Academy
of Art & Design. She holds a Masters from the M.1.T. Media Lab and has a
background in visual art and philosophy.

is the Coordinator of Emily Carr University’s Teaching
and Learning Centre administering Emily Carr’s elearning on Moodle,
Blog and Wiki platforms. Grant’s research and teaching support faculty

and staff with incorporating new technologies for use in elearning, the
classroom, research projects and web publishing; scholarly and pedagogical
practices. Grant created ECUPS, a student media team providing filming,

butors

publishing and web-casting of events at Emily Carr. Grant serves on

the Curriculum Planning + Review Committee (CPR), on the Pedagogy,
eLearning and Technology Committee (PET), on the ETUG Steering
Committee (SCETUG) and on the British Columbia Teaching & Learning
Council (BC-TLC).

ig an artist and a designer who holds a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Sculpture and is completing her Bachelor of Design in Interaction
Design. Her interests are in playing with how people move through
space and interact with objects and ideas. She also has a keen interest it
technology, how it’s shaped by people, and how it shapes us on a personal
and societal scale.

= ig a communication designer who focuses to intervene in
social and cultural challenges through systems design. She believes that
design is a powerful tool for change and thus, has been involved in a variety
of community empowerment projects, especially in regards to art, fashion
and healthcare.

has a PhD in Literary Studies and has published
widely on contemporary Canadian Literature and Culture—literature,
photography, film, and television. His recent work investigates new forms
of cultural expression and social contexts, particularly around questions
of globalization and urbanization. Lowry’s work focuses on new media
platforms that link scholars, artists, and audiences across cultural and
geographical distances: e.g, Maraya project, connecting urban waterfronts
in Vancouver and Dubai. From 2002-11, Lowry edited the cultural journal
West Coast Line. Pacific Avenue (2009), his collection of poems, looks

at image-based memory and geography. Lowry regularly shares ideas,
images, lectures, and commentary on his blog: http://glenlowry.com.

ig an Associate Professor at Emily Carr. She has a
background in communication design and specializes in 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 text and their relationship to space. She is the editor of Current,
the university’s design research journal, and a member of Emily Carr’s
Research Ethics Board. A researcher at Emily Carr’s Social and Interactive
Media Centre, her current design research focuses on the development

of enhanced interactive ebooks and the exploration of emerging formal
structures in book design for touch-based mobile devices.