PRESIDENT’S REPORT

2016

Creativity will always be our greatest natural resource

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT + VICE-CHANCELLOR Emily Carr University of Art + Design is in the midst of a significant transformation and there has never been a more exciting time to be part of our community.

In the last year we have broken ground on our new state-of–the-art campus at Great Northern Way, expanded our impact through local and international partnerships, and were named the top art + design university in Canada by the QS World University Rankings and by Red Dot.

This academic year, Emily Carr University marks its 90th anniversary and celebrates its place as one of the longest standing post-secondary institutions in B.C. As part of these celebrations we installed our new Chancellor, Geoff Plant, and will be hosting various community events and continuing to engage our research partners and distinguished alumni world-wide.

Within the pages of this report you will see stories of inspiration and innovation; snapshots of the next generation of thought leaders in art and design, and the impact of their work, both locally and globally.

As we move into the future, we will continue to celebrate our belief that creativity will always be our greatest natural resource. I invite you to join us as we shape the future of our city, our province and our country.

Dr. Ron Burnett C.M., O.B.C., CHEVALIER DE L’ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES, RCA

PRESIDENT + VICE-CHANCELLOR

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We’ve based the design of our new campus on eight principles—aspirations to inform the physical, social and experiential attributes of our new space.

Our 8 principles for transformation are:

1 Students at the centre

2 Bringing the public in with Emily Carr values at the core

3 Closer to home

4 Making + remaking

5 21st century infrastructure

6 Access and diversity

7 Visibility and transparency

8 Creative work everywhere and opportunities for performance

Emily Carr University at Great Northern Way

In January 2013, the Province of BC announced a new home for Emily Carr University of Art + Design at Great Northern Way. Since that time our community has been engaged in extensive community consultations to imagine and create a 21st century campus dedicated to art and design and the creative economy.

On April 24, 2015 Emily Carr and the Government of BC broke ground at the Great Northern Way site marking the most significant investment in the arts and culture in the history of British Columbia. This endeavour has been made possible by the countless hours of hard work by our volunteers, Board of Governors, faculty and staff, and by the generous support of our dedicated donors.

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“We are now building a bigger and better home for Emily Carr University of Art

and Design,” said Wilkinson. “An important consideration in the design is the use of

distinctive features to reflect the special character of Emily Carr University.”

NEW CAMPUS

Transformational gift fuels our new campus vision

Real estate developer Reliance Properties announced a $7 million donation, which publicly launched Emily Carr’s capital campaign, THE BIG IDEA.

The gift is the largest financial donation ever given to Emily Carr and will help build the Libby Leshgold Gallery and the Reliance Lecture Theatre at our new campus.

This contribution sets a new standard for philanthropy, and is the largest gift ever given to an arts-only university in Canada. “We saw the new campus as a huge initiative, not only for Emily Carr but for the growth of Vancouver’s arts and culture scene, the initiative aligns with our passions arts and the creative process,” said Jon Stovell of Reliance Properties.

THE BIG IDEA

over $1M in student support and community engagement

$21 million million

$25 TOTALGOAL

CAPITALGOAL

$22MCAMPAIGN PROGRESS

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95%raised

88%raised

migraine pain by more than 50% and after completing a competitive analysis, it became clear that Calli is unique amongst its competitors. Seldon’s plan includes developing her project into a small business through the creation of her company, Solely Design, and membership with Maker Labs in Vancouver.

MATERIAL MATTERS > Longboards Canadian Rayne Longboards is widely known for its innovative longboard manufacturing. The company teamed with Emily Carr to stay ahead of the curve and go beyond boards into production of trucks and wheels. As a result of their research with Emily Carr they

HEALTH DESIGN > Calli project Leigh Selden is passionate about helping the lives of others. A graduating student in the Industrial Design program, Selden created the Calli project, a wearable migraine aid to create comfort and relief for its users. It works through a combination of adjustable pressure, coldness and blocking light and sound that can be customized by the user. These features address the key findings from primary and secondary research that are integral to creating migraine relief. It has been shown that Calli helps relieve

Intersections Digital Studios

We are global leaders in dedicated research for studio-based art, design and media. This year we continued to support many innovative initiatives and projects with direct links to the creative economy and the broader commu-nity. Here are just a few examples of the many projects taking place in the Intersections Digital Studios.

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The research project focuses on real-time, passive motion capture to track an Oculus Rift and creates a more embodied experience through connecting the movement of a person in the studio space to a gaming engine. The motion capture data is streamed in real time to the gaming engine which then maps it to a character in a virtual world, and renders the scene to the person’s head mounted display. People using the headset are said to be virtually roaming, or VROAMING, untethered in another reality.

the British Columbia Innovation Council (BCIC), students blend design methods with Lean UX methodologies in order to quickly solve a range of defined problems.

STEREOSCOPIC 3D FILM > VRoaming Working with a new twist on augmented reality experience, Emily Carr’s Motion Capture Studio furthered the new phenomenon VROAMING, an adventure in Virtual Reality innovation. The Motion Capture team works with head-mounted display technology with an industry partner, Wavesine, to push the boundaries of visual reality and augmented reality experiences.

are further innovating their products while designing, testing and producing new components in small inexpensive runs allowing for immediate iteration around testing and production.

LIVING LABS > HIGHLINE Emily Carr’s Living Labs has developed Design for Startups, an innovative initiative to pair design talent with early stage startups by establishing research partnerships with accelerators. In Fall 2015, Living Labs is working with HIGHLINE, a top-tier venture investment platform with opera-tions in both Vancouver and Toronto. Now in its third phase, Design for Startups, supported by

5We are global leaders in research through studio-based art, design + media

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Dr. Richard William HillRichard William Hill is a curator, critic and art historian of Cree and other heritages. His research focuses primarily on historical and contemporary art created by Indigenous North American artists. As a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Dr. Hill oversaw the museum’s first substantial effort to include Indigenous North American art and ideas in permanent collection galleries.

Amber Frid-JimenezAssociate Professor Amber Frid-Jimenez is an artist, designer and writer whose work explores the role of technology in contem-porary society. She has presented her work internationally at venues including Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Ars Electronica, and the Smithsonian Institution, and has been featured in the New York Times, the Huffington Post and the CBC, among others.

Dr. Garnet HertzAssociate Professor Dr. Garnet Hertz’s work explores themes of DIY culture and interdisciplinary art/design practices. His work has been shown at several notable international venues including SIGGRAPH, Arts Electronica, and DEAF, and he was awarded the 2008 Oscar Signorini Award in robotic art.

Canada Research Chairs

We are honoured to announce the appointments of Associate Professors Amber Frid-Jimenez and Dr. Garnet Hertz as Emily Carr’s first Canada Research Chairs, an historic milestone that recognizes our capacity, faculty and contribu-tions-to-date in the fields of art, media and design research. In 2015 Emily Carr welcomed Richard William Hill as the third Canada Research Chair. These appointments will help build Emily Carr’s capacity to contribute to national and international academic research in art, design and media and to Canada’s creative economy.

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Research Funding

Emily Carr is a leader in creative and design-based research. Our researchers are impacting the University through innovative approaches to academic questions, and transforming industry and community through the creative application of cutting edge academic knowledge.

Our approaches are nimble, making us a partner of choice for many institutions and industry, government, and community partners. As a small institution, we consistently punch above our weight in funding competitions, hosting three Tier Two Canada Research Chairs, four designated research centres, and achieving consistent success in highly compet-itive federal funding opportunities.

$595,000

$2,485,849NSERC FUNDING

2009-2015

$392,1102014/15

$89,3192014/15

$1,770,138SSHRC FUNDING

2005-2015

$4,255,987TOTAL RESEARCH

FUNDING

8 Emily Carr is a learning community dedicated to placing students at the centre of everything we do. Students travel from around the world to study, explore and create at Emily Carr.

2015/16 Enrolment

1,843 Undergraduate students

1,552 Continuing Studies students*

70 Graduate students

27 Exchange students to 9 countries

431 International Students from 52 countries

3,465 Total students

*estimated number

STUDENT CENTRED

Graduate Domestic

Graduate Interntaional

Undergraduate Interntaional

Undergraduate Exchange

Undergraduate Domestic

Continuing Studies

92014/2015 Awards

Student support + awards

123 awards85 recipents

104 awards85 recipents

34 awards34 recipents

37 awards37 recipents

27 awards27 recipents

19 awards19 recipents

28 awards28 recipents

BURSARIES

$57,150

GRADUATEAWARDS

$57,900

GRADUATE TEACHING

+ RESARCH$56,000

GRADUATIONAWARDS

$27,575

OTHER

$141,625 $103,918 $29,035

ENTRANCESCHOLARSHIPS

SCHOLARSHIPS

10 The Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media responds to the changing needs in the world around us. Our award-winning students take leadership in areas such as sustainable design, medical and health issues, regional products, recreational products, systems design, information design, typography, visual communications, commercial, experimental and 3D animation, visual story-telling, film, video, integrated media and interactivity.

The Faculty of Culture + Community forges meaningful and engaged partnerships with the larger community, industry and other institutions and universities. The mandate of the Faculty of Culture + Community includes sustainability, both environmental and social, effective communication strategies and adaptive, innovative curriculum able to respond to changing social conditions.

Faculties

A DAY IN THE LIFE

The Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies supports graduate level programs and research at Emily Carr. The Master of Applied Arts and Master of Design degrees facilitate multi-disciplinary interaction among students and learning experiences across the disciplines of design, media and visual arts. The MAA is offered through full-time residential and low-residency streams.

Continuing Studies supports lifelong learning pathways for students across the fields of art, media and design. It offers a breadth of personal enrichment opportunities, professional certificates, employment focused training, and university pathways to transition into post-secondary art and design education.

The Audain Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice offers a studio-based education that reflects the diversity and complex-ity of contemporary art practices. The programs engage with a diverse set of ideas and materials to imagine and explore the creation of new objects and images. Our teaching faculty are artists dedicated to providing students with a positive, productive, learning community immersed in contemporary art practices.

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Emily Carr is a world-renowned art and design university with four distinct faculties.

GRADUATE STUDIES

Visual Art/Public Art

In January 2015 Emily Carr came together with a number of unique business, academic and communi-ty partners to reinvent the way public spaces are considered and created. The partners, which included Ampri Group, the City of Richmond and Stantec, came together to challenge the way public art is shaped, resulting in the development of a new course, The Social Practice of Public Art and Community Design, housed within Emily Carr’s Faculty of Culture + Community and led by Dr. Cameron Cartiere, Emily Carr Associate Professor.

Students worked with the partners to develop the public art plan for Ampri Group’s most recent development and gained an insider’s view into how public art is both selected and created. The class liaised with city departments, landscape architects, public art experts, environmental biologists, historians and public artists to create a detailed and inspiring plan, which has become the integral document for the site’s public art call.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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13Chenny XiaWhile Chenny Zia was a student pursuing her BDes in Communica-tion Design, she was selected as one of Canada’s Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs by The Next 36 Leaders of Canada.

Chenny is a partner of the boutique design collective, Pixelbot, based in Toronto and Vancouver and founder of an employee software platform called Vokko Inc.

Through the Next 36 awards, Chenny was selected from more than 1,000 young entrepreneur applicants and is the only designer among the winners. Her selection adds Emily Carr to a list of just 13 universities represented in this competition and the first time

that an independent art and design university has been a part of the program.

In addition to the Next 36, Chenny was the 2014 recipient of the Canadian Regional Design Award for Mobile Design, a 2013 finalist in the CNET Best of CES Awards, a 2012 CEA Innovation Award winner and one of Tourism Vancouver’s 2014 featured Vancouverites.

Design

Encouraging experimentation, collaboration, dialogue + engagement

A COMMUNITY OF DESIGN

Culture and Community

Jenn Moore/3rd year Integrated Media, Andrew Tavukciyan/ 3rd year Industrial Design and Anita Vu/4th year Illustration.

tained the wraps for many months after the TED conference was over.

This project was led by Associate Professor, Durwin Talon. Selected artists/designers include: Christel Chan/4th year Illustration, Jane Q Cheng/4th year Illustration, Nomi Chi/4th year Illustration, Daniela Ivanova/3rd year Illustration,

Emily Carr students are constantly impacting our world and in early 2015 seven students had the opportunity to work with two outstanding community partners, TED and car2go. Through an open call, students were selected to create creative wraps for car2go vehicles that would be used in the 2015 TED conference. The vehicles officially launched at the opening of TED2015 and the wraps were so successful in catching the public imagination that car2go main-

CAR2GO, TED + EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY

PARTNER TO DISPLAY ARTWORK

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Kadenze courses are open to learners anywhere in the world and it has partnerships with creative arts departments at leading universities and institu-tions, including: Princeton, Stanford, California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Otis College of Art and Design, California College of the Arts, School of the Art Institute

of Chicago, Goldsmiths University of London, Cornish College of the Arts, and Emily Carr, the only art and design university in Canada participating in this program.

In June of 2015 Emily Carr launched a course with international partner Kadenze, an online learning platform purpose-built for the arts and creative technologies. Kadenze pairs world-class instructors with a digital platform specifically created to support an online arts-based curriculum.

Lifelong Learning

“We are proud to partner with Emily Carr University and TED,

and offer our blue and white car2go vehicles as a canvas for

someof Vancouver’s most gifted artists,” says Chris luvancigh,

car2go Vancouver Location Manager. “Vancouver has one

of the most vibrant artistic communities, and we look forward

to continuing our commitment to such an important scene

in our local community.”

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world-classeducation at yourfingertips

KADENZE COURSE

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Located in Prince George, the Wood Innovation Design Centre is the tallest wood-only structure in North America, highlighting new and dynamic uses for wood. The Emily Carr Centre for Design Innovation and Entrepreneurship will bring design thinking to this unique building. We have been in discussions with community partners such as UNBC, CNC, the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation and the Two Rivers Gallery to begin

consultations around innovative programing ideas for the Centre. As this community engagement process continues Emily Carr is looking forward to providing unique courses in art + design to northern BC by the fall of 2016.

Wood Innovation Design Centre in Prince George

In January of 2015, Emily Carr, along with the Ministry of Advanced Education, announced the creation of the Emily Carr Centre for Design Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Wood Innovation Design Centre.

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Throughout the 2015–2016 academic year, we will be celebrating our 90th anniversary. October 1st marked the day, 90 years ago when the Vancouver School of Decorative and Fine Arts first began to offer classes. Since that time, Emily Carr students, alumni, faculty and staff have been a driving force in the creative economy of Vancouver. We celebrated this milestone with the installation of our new Chancellor, Geoff Plant, on October 1st 2015.

Pecha KuchaOn October 16th Emily Carr and Pecha Kucha Vancouver hosted a city wide event celebrating Emily Carr University’s 90’s anniversary. The event featured inspiring talks related to art, design and media in Vancouver. Many were Emily Carr Alumni including Dave Humphrey, President of the Emily Carr Alumni Association and Justin Langlois, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Culture and Community. The event was SOLD out, highlighting the important place the Emily Carr University holds with respect to the creative economy in Vancouver.

Art MarketEmily Carr University Alumni are some of the most prestigious artists in their fields and on October 17th and 18th our alumni participated in the second annual Alumni Art Market. This was an opportunity for the public to come and purchase one-of-a-kind original work and meet the artists.

International Alumni ChaptersIn the past 3 years the Emily Carr Alumni Association has established an alumni network that spans the globe. We have launched alumni chapters in Toronto, San Francisco and New York City. This year we traveled to London England and are working to establish our first European chapter.

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NEW CHANCELLOR INSTALLATION CEREMONY 2015

CHANCELLORGEOFF PLANT Q.C. Counsel, Gall Legge Grant & Munroe LLP

PRESIDENT + VICE-CHANCELLORDR. RON BURNETT C.M., O.B.C., CHEVALIER

DE L’ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES, RCA

APPOINTED MEMBERSSHAUNA BRYANVice Preisdent, New Business and Production Executive, Sony Imageworks

JO DELESALLEPresident and Managing Partner, Dayhu Capital Group of Companies

RICK MISCHELSenior Vice President, Sony Pictures Entertainment

MICHAEL O’BRIANPresident, Nairbo Investments Inc.

KIM PEACOCKPrincipal, K2 Strategies

BLAIR QUALEYPresident and CEO, New Car Dealers Association of BC

BOB RENNIEFounder and CEO, Rennie Marketing Systems

FACULTY MEMBERSDR. RANDY LEE CUTLER Associate Professor, Visual Art + Material Practice

ALEXANDRA PHILLIPSAssociate Professor, Culture + Community

STUDENT MEMBERSGLORIA HAN4th Year Undergraduate

SALGUERO KIERNAN4th Year Undergraduate

EMPLOYEE MEMBERGAYE FOWLER Foundation Program Advisor

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION DR. RON BURNETTPresident + Vice-Chancellor

BONNE ZABOLOTNEYVice President Academic + Provost

MICHAEL CLIFFORDVice President, Finance + Administration

JENNIFER DEDOMINICISVice President Enrolment + Student Services/Registrar

BROEK BOSMAAssociate Vice President, External Relations

JAMES ROUTAssociate Vice President, Learning Services + Information Technologies

ADRIAN TEESAssociate Vice President, Human Resources

TENE BARBERExecutive Director, Continuing Studies

DEBORAH SHACKLETONDean, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media

SUSAN STEWARTDean, Faculty of Culture + Community

JUDY DAVISDean, Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice

DR. CHRIS JONESDirector, Graduate Studies

Board of Governors + Senior Leadership 2015/2016

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Board of Governors + Senior Leadership 2015/2016

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