Demiralp, Cemre

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Person Preferred Name

Cemre Demiralp _none

Field of Activity

Program design

Organizational design

Public sector reform

Art-based community building

Creative industry

Email/Contact

cdemiralp@ecuad.ca

Department

Research

Living Labs

Status

current

Affiliation Date

2018 to open end

Identifier (Other)

Cemre Demiralp

Cemre Demiralp (she/her) is a transdisciplinary programmer and communicator whose passion lies within public engagement and community building. Through her career, she has collaborated with a diverse roster of arts and culture organizations worldwide and worked alongside emerging and established artists including Kerry James Marshall, Yoko Ono, Solange Knowles, Ian Wallace, Simon Starling, Lara Favaretto, Vik Muniz, Jonathan Borofsky and Ken Lum to name a few. She currently co-chairs the Vancouver Art Book Fair Board of Governors. Cemre holds a double major in Art History and Political Science from the University of British Columbia and is pursuing an MBA in Sustainable Innovation from the University of Victoria. The anglicized pronunciation of her name is “gem (like the stone) – ray”.

Related Works

Fibre Stories: Episode 01 – Rethinking Fibre Futures with Rebecca Burgess and Emily Smith

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In our inaugural episode of Fibre Stories, guests Rebecca Burgess and Emily Smith talk about new perspectives towards future fibre systems and how the Fibershed model offers a space to explore alternative economics and local production. In this episode, we discuss: The formation of Fibershed, the Fibreshed Field School and the philosophy behind them; decolonizing education; an alternate look at universities as place-based knowledge institutions; regenerative fibre practices, comparing scale of traditional fibre systems to industrial fibre systems. Episode Guests: Emily Smith is the creator of the Fibershed Field School and co-founder of the Vancouver Fibreshed. Rebecca Burgess is an author, the executive director of Fibershed and Board Chair of the Carbon Cycle Institute. Keywords: Fibershed, Education, Local Economies of Production, Colonial & Decolonial Fibre Systems, Place-based Knowledge

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