Fall 2015 Research Round-up

Joanna Berzowska  was one of the judges for WearHacks Montreal (October 2 to 4), the biggest wearable hackathon in North America. Wearhacks promotes innovation, entrepreneurship, and education in the Internet of Things and Wearables space. 

Martin Racine (Design and Computation Arts) hosted a workshop and symposium on culture and creativity at Concordia on September 28. The event, which featured lectures by leading design experts, explored creativity and innovation in design and how it is best facilitated, cultivated, exploited and rewarded across different national and cultural borders, different environments and cultures, from both an individual designer's perspective and design groups' perspectives.

Rhona Richman Kenneally (Design and Computation Arts) will give the keynote address, “Tracking the dresser: the biography of one piece of furniture in mid-twentieth-century rural Ireland,” for the Second Interdisciplinary Research Symposium in Irish Studies at Memorial University later this month. She will also present her design research to the Food Advocacy Research Group at Memorial. During her recent sabbatical, Richman Kenneally published three essays on Irish domestic space, with a fourth at press. Her lectures at venues in Canada, the US, and Europe included a one-day seminar on design and the future of food at the University of Modena, Italy.

The December edition of Muséologies focuses on the curatorial challenges of creative based research practices. Carmela Cucuzzella was the invited guest editor for this special edition. The authors are from universities in Canada, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Australia, and Belgium, and from disciplines of museology, art and design, art history, music, performing arts, film studies and new media.