January 2019

Welcome!

The Office of Research & Innovation supports research and scholarly activity at OCAD University.

We help OCAD U researchers to find funding, develop projects and partnerships and engage students.

Contact us today to learn more about how we can support you in all things research at OCAD University.

The OCAD U Research Ethics Board (REB) provides an independent, impartial, and equitable ethics review of all research at OCAD U that involves human participants. Learn more about the REB and its processes here.

SPOTLIGHT

ANNOUNCING THE 2018/2019 AWARDS FOR DISTINGUISHED AND EARLY STAGE RESEARCH

Congratulations to Gabrielle Moser and Bonnie Devine, the 2018/2019 recipients of the OCAD University Awards for Excellence in Early Stage Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity and Distinguished Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. View the full awards announcement here: https://www2.ocadu.ca/news/announcing­the­20182019­awards­for­distinguished­and­early­ stage­research MESSAGE FROM THE VP

The new University Strategic Research Plan

Our new Strategic Research Plan (SRP) received Senate approval last November, after a two year process of consultation and co­design. The themes and priorities of the new SRP build on the history of research excellence at OCADU while opening avenues to expand for the future.

During the development of our new SRP I benefitted from conversations with many faculty on issues pertaining to Indigenous research and OCAD University’s commitment to decolonization. This was a key topic discussed by the Research Committee. In discussions with Professors Ryan Rice and Jason Baerg they advanced the idea that the new SRP affords a unique opportunity for the University to demonstrate our commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action.

The SRP has articulated our commitment to “Nothing about us without us,” as outlined in our Academic Plan. This principle stipulates that research involving Indigenous peoples must be led by Indigenous peoples. It is supported by the Tri­Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2 2014) which outlines our responsibilities in Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada.

Within this context the University can ensure that Indigenous faculty are supported to advance their own research agendas as we continue to build capacity for Indigenous research to grow. Suggestions for how we can enact our commitment include:

Validating and valuing different paths to academic preparation and accumulated knowledges, not always vested in specific degrees; Developing capacity for Indigenous researchers to meet the dedicated funding opportunities offered by funders; Ensuring that Indigenous faculty and communities lead research involving Indigenous peoples and communities; Providing the space and support for Indigenous research at the University; Asking applicants to internal research funding and to our Research Ethics Board to indicate if their research will help OCAD U address the TRC Calls to Action, as one way to build capacity and awareness.

There will be other suggestions for how we can achieve the goals outlined in the SRP that we can take into account. Taking steps such as these our SRP Implementation will help to ensure that the TRC Calls to Action do not fade from research and practice. Enacting suggestions like these as part of the SRP Implementation will send a clear signal about our commitment to decolonization, help us educate the broader research community with whom we interact—faculty, students, communities and partners alike—on the importance of the TRC Calls to Action, and help us track progress over time against these goals. The Research Office is looking forward to supporting the University community as we embark on this exciting next step in our research journey.

RESEARCH NEWS

Launch of THIS IS RESEARCH Campaign

In the last issue of Pulse we announced the launch of our new communications campaign, This is Research at OCADU. Since then you may have noticed several posters around campus – featuring Suzanne Morrisette, Judth Doyle, David McIntosh, Kate Hartman, Haru Hyunkyung Ji, and Michelle Gay and Barbara Rauch – that showcase the breadth and depth of research and research­creation that our faculty conduct. You can see these posters online here: https://www2.ocadu.ca/news/this­is­ research.

These posters all communicate the complex ideas and knowledges that each faculty member is researching. From the visual to the virtual, and the prototypical to the physical, each poster shows how our faculty are engaging with new forms of knowledge, materials and ideas at the forefront of OCAD University Mail - Fwd: PULSE VOL.8 - OCAD U's Research and Innovation Newsletter research and creative practice. And, importantly, they demonstrate to our publics, our students and our partners, the value of ideation, exploration, knowledge and artistic creation.

If you would like your research to be profiled through “THIS IS RESEARCH” please contact our office at [email protected].

OCAD University to Participate in CRAM

On April 5, 2019 OCAD University will be participating in CRAM.

CRAM is the very FIRST event of its kind ­ a research learning festival for the public that opens the doors to the transformative thinking of Toronto’s universities. University of Toronto, OCAD University, Ryerson University and York University will be participating. It’s about universities working together to bridge the gap between research and community by sharing the research that goes on in these institutions to promote public engagement with a changing world. The public is aware of only a small fraction of the research that goes on in Toronto’s universities. This event will create the opportunity to showcase creative and critical thinking across a multitude of disciplines to better inform the public of how knowledge generated from research will impact our lives. Come join us on April 5, 2019.

To view the CRAM splash page go to https://cramtoronto.com .

Paintings You Can Feel

Dr. Peter Coppin teaches his students how to use inclusive design methodologies to solve real­world design problems. Students test their cross­sensory approaches through prototyping and experimentation. One of Dr. Coppin’s classes collaborated with the Art Gallery of Ontario to examine how design can help visually impaired people enjoy paintings. Students ‘interpreted’ two­dimensional paintings into three­dimensional artefacts using a wide range of materials to convey the shape, texture, and spatial relationships of objects depicted in the paintings. Read more about this unique activity as reported by the Toronto Star here.

Celebration of Research 2018

On December 5th, 2018, the Office of Research and Innovation hosted a Celebration of Research at Onsite Gallery. 2018 marks ten years of Research Excellence at OCAD U, and the ORI was pleased to celebrate OCAD's rich research history by honouring a decade of research excellence awards.

The 2018/2019 recipients of the OCAD University Award for Excellence in Early Stage Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity and the Award for Distinguished Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity were announced at the Celebration. Congratulations to Assistant Professor Gabrielle Moser and Associate Professor Bonnie Devine for your respective awards! Congratulations also to OCAD U's newly appointed Canada Research Chairs, Dr. Kate Sellen and Dr. Alexis Morris, whose Chairs were announced at the awards ceremony.

Thank you to all the faculty and staff who attended the event; your participation made it a memorable and positive experience.

Associate Dean Ryan Rice leads public presentation panel

On January 10th, 2019, Associate Dean (Academic Affairs, FOLASSIS) Ryan Rice led a public presentation panel titled Re:Place: An Inquiry at UrbanSpace Gallery. The panel, which addressed relationships to land, site and Indigenous presence in Tkaronto, included Assistant Professor Jason Baerg, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Logan MacDonald, Ange Loft and Aylan Couchie, artists who participated in the A Space Gallery exhibitions You’re Welcome and Overlay of the Land.

Curated by Rice, You’re Welcome invited four Indigenous artists (Baerg, Dion Fletcher, MacDonald and Loft) to reimagine an everyday object – the ubiquitous welcome mat ­ as a means to contemplate the discourse around land acknowledgement and protocols. Overlay of the Land featured art multiples by Aylan Couchie, made available through the Magic Gumball of Fate. The project has also been exhibited at Onsite Gallery.

Re:Place, Overlay of the Land and You’re Welcome are part of Rice’s larger curatorial investigation, Land is Where your Feet Touch the Ground (#LIWYFTTG), which explores Indigenous narratives in urban spaces via creative forms such as mapping, archiving and exhibiting visual culture. The year­ long curatorial investigation has received funding from the Toronto Art Council’s Indigenous Art Projects grant program.

OCAD Faculty Participate in DesignTO

The fourth iteration of DesignTO, Toronto's annual symposium and exhibition of art and design, ran from January 18­27, 2019. A number of OCAD faculty and their students participated in the festival:

In a collaboration between OCAD University and the Toronto Centre for Community learning and Development, a second year OCAD U industrial design class taught by Assistant Professor Ranee Lee was held off­site as a way to pilot an innovative participartory design framework. The sewing workshop with Regent Park Sewing Studio was written about in Now Toronto: https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/class­action/ocadu­regent­park­sewing­circle/

Associate Professor Angelika Seeschaaf Veres, Daniel Daam­Rossi, and Instructor Koby Barhad are co­founders of Radical Norms, an emerging design studio that uses design as a research tool to explore possible futures and gain insights on the future impact of emerging technologies. Seeschaaf Veres, Daam­Rossi and Barhad were speakers at the DesignTO Symposium: Unlocking the Future of Work, addressing issues of Inclusivity and Diversity with a presentation titled Open Visions: Creating alternative futures narratives through diversity and inclusion. Radical Norms' project 100% Chair: Designing for algorithmic landscapes, which explores how design for home and public environments might look like in a near future where robots and humans co­habitate, was also exhibited at DesignTO and has since been featured in CreativeApplications.Net (CAN), one of today's most authoritative digital art blogs. Associate Professor Cheryl Giraudy and Assistant Professor Saskia Van Kampen launched their two­year research effort, Design ManifesT.O 2020: creating new ideas for Toronto, at DesignTO 2019 with a public panel discussion that took place at Open Gallery, 49 McCaul Street. Design ManifesT.O 2020 has begun with an audit of past and ongoing proposals, movements, policies, and calls to action that evolve art, design and creative endeavours of place making as part of transforming the city, including aspirations for greater equity, democratic reform, infrastructure, transit, amalgamation, and neighbourhood redevelopment. The research team has begun planning the second forum in collaboration with potential sponsors, and aimed for Scarborough neighbourhoods, to gather/listen to citizen efforts for community­based creative placemaking. The project is funded by a Research Seed Grant from OCAD University. Learn more about Design ManifesT.O 2020 here: https://www2.ocadu.ca/research/cgiraudy/project/design­manifesto­2020

The Plastic­Free Kitchen: an exhibition of work created through a collaboration between Sketch Working Arts, Codesign, and students in OCAD's Participatory Design Course taught by Assistant Professor Sarah Tranum, was on display at Haworth's showroom from January 22nd to 27th. The design objects exhibited reflected values set forth by SKETCH artists as part of a shared vision for a plastic­free kitchen. https://www2.ocadu.ca/event/the­plastic­ free­kitchen­part­of­designto

Health Design Studio (led by Associate Professor Kate Sellen) and Taboo Health collaborated to create an interactive public event series called "Dying". The series, which explored death and dying through the lens of art and design, ran from January 14 ­ February 2 at three locations across Toronto: Artscape Youngspace, OCADU 100 McCaul, and the OCADU Graduate Gallery. https://www2.ocadu.ca/event/dying

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Research Funding Opportunities

Please contact [email protected] for more information on research funding opportunities.

Competition open for Latin American and Caribbean citizens: Student Exchange Program, 2019­2020

The deadline to submit an application to bring a student researcher or visiting researcher to OCAD U under one of the named programs is March 21, 2019 (Note: about a month earlier than in previous years). For full program and application details, visit each scholarship program’s guidelines page or refer to the attached program summaries:

Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program Scholarships provide students from Latin America and the Caribbean with short­term exchange opportunities for study or research, in Canada, at the college, undergraduate and graduate levels.

College, undergraduate or graduate students (Master's and PhD) $7,200 for 4mos/ 1 term; Graduate students (Master's and PhD) for a period $9,700 for 4­6 mos

Canada­Chile Leadership Exchange Scholarship

Program provides students from Chile with short­term exchange opportunities for study or research, in Canada, at the college, undergraduate and graduate levels.

College, undergraduate or graduate students (Master's and PhD) $7,200 for 4mos/ 1 term; Graduate students (Master's and PhD) $9,700 for 5­6mos.

Canada­CARICOM Faculty Leadership Program

Program provides faculty or international liaison officers/managers, from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), with short­term exchange opportunities for professional development, graduate study or research at Canadian post­secondary institutions.

Faculty members $2,700 for 2­3wks; International directors, managers or administrators CAD 2,700 for 2­3wks in the area of internationalization of post­secondary institutions or student mobility; or Faculty members $9,700 5­6 mos.

Partnership Engage Grants (SSHRC)

Provides short­term and timely support for partnered research activities with a non­academic organization.

$7,000 to $25,000 1 year December 15, March 15 and June 15, September 15

Connection Grants (SSHRC)

Supports events and outreach activities geared toward short­term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.

$7,000 to $25,000 1 year February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1

Discovery Grants (NSERC)

Supports ongoing programs of research with long­term goals rather than a single short­term project or collection of projects.

~$25,000/year Up to five years August 1: (Notification of Intent to Apply) November 1: (Application)

Engage Grants (NSERC)

Fosters the development of new research partnerships by supporting short­term research and development projects aimed at addressing a company­specific problem

$25,000 6 months Ongoing

Elevate (Mitacs)

Supports a postdoctoral researcher in a collaboration between the university and a partner organization

$55,000 ($30,000 partner/$25,000 Mitacs) 2 years 2 deadlines annually­ one in the winter and one in the spring (February 20)

RESEARCH EVENTS

Research Events

Post Colonial Hot­Ones Join Immony Mén, Ryan Rice, Camille Turner, Casey Mecija, Patricio Dávila, and other community members for the first installment in a panel series centered around sharing meals, ideas and experiences about liberation, transformation and resilience within arts education.

Date: Thursday, February 28, 2019 ­ 6:30pm to 9:00pm Location: Room 258, 100 McCaul St. (George Reid House, OCAD University) https://www2.ocadu.ca/event/new­panel­post­colonial­hot­ones Making Indigenous Activism More Creative A talk by Associate Professor Melanie Printup Hope, an award­winning artist of Tuscarora and European descent. Prof. Hope will discuss her linking of traditional Indigenous forms like beadwork with electronic arts.

Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 ­ 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: The Yager Museum of Art & Culture, Hartwick College (1 Hartwick Dr, Oneonta, NY 13820, USA) https://www.hartwick.edu/campus­life/arts­culture/yager­museum/

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

2018 Publications by OCAD U Faculty

To have your publications listed in the PULSE, please contact [email protected].

Publications available through the Open Research Repository:

Baerg, Jason (2018) Review of UNCEDED: Voices of the land, Canada’s entry to the 2018 Venice Biennale in architecture. RACAR: revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, 43 (2). pp. 125­127. ISSN 0315­9906 Black, Anthea and Burisch, Nicole (2018) Still performing austerity: Artists, work, and economic speculation. RACAR: revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, 41 (1). pp. 85­90. ISSN 0315­9906 Cox, Susan and Lowry, Glen and Davidson, Jacqueline (2018) Intersecting practices in arts and health research: Creating dialogue and seeking new modes of collaboration. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 5 (1). ISSN 2331­1983 Fardy, Jonathan (2018) Split­screen: Style, mediation, and postcolonial theory in the digital age. Postcolonial Text, 13 (1). ISSN 1705­9100 Gordon, Marcus and Diamond, Sara and Zheng, Minsheng and Carnevale, Michael (2018) Compara. Encounters in Theory and History of Education, 19. pp. 163­185. ISSN 2560­8371 https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/encounters/issue/view/815 Griffin, David (2018) Becoming music. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, 3 (2). pp. 151­170. ISSN 2057­0384 (Submitted) Jordan, J. Bern and Vanderheiden, Gregg C. and Kaine­Krolak, Maureen and Roberts, Vera (2018) A pilot study of computer auto­personalization at American job centers.Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities. Leeming, William and Barahona, Ana (2018) Synthesis, convergence, and differences in the entangled histories of cytogenetics in medicine: A comparative study of Canada and Mexico. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 71. pp. 8­16. ISSN 13698486 (Submitted) Moser, Gabrielle (2018) No Looking After the Internet: Curatorial experiments and pedagogical failures in engaging difficult images. photographies, 11 (2­3). pp. 313­327. ISSN 1754­0763 Moser, Gabrielle (2018) Object lessons: Visualizing displacement in the Canadian Arctic. Photography and Culture, 11 (1). pp. 91­95. ISSN 1751­4517 Tillman, Ruth and Harnum, Alan and Robichaud, Danielle and Zingarelli­Sweet, Anna­ Sophia and Houston, Brad (2018) Roundtable: Should library workers learn to code? Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 12 (2). ISSN 1911­9593 Treviranus, Jutta (2018) If you are unique (and aren’t we all), numbers are not our friends. Medium. Treviranus, Jutta (2018) If you want the best design, ask strangers to help. Medium. Treviranus, Jutta (2018) The three dimensions of Inclusive Design: Part one. Medium. Treviranus, Jutta (2018) The three dimensions of Inclusive Design: Part three. Medium. Treviranus, Jutta (2018) The three dimensions of Inclusive Design: Part two. Medium.

Book Section

Ferguson, Susan (2018) Embodied writing and the social production of pain. In: Sharing Breath: Embodied Learning and Decolonization. AU Press, pp. 323­347. ISBN 9781771991926 Treviranus, Jutta (2018) Learning differences & digital equity in the classroom. In: International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education 2nd Edition. Springer. (Submitted) Treviranus, Jutta (2018) Realizing the potential of inclusive education. In: UNIversal Inclusion. Rights and Opportunities for Students with Disabilities in the Academic Context. Franco Angeli. (In Press)

Conference/Workshop Item

Barhad, Koby and Veres, Angelika Seeschaaf (2018) Visioning through diversity: ‘open visions’ – an open, digital collaborative research tool for design classrooms, industry and citizens. In: International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education 6 & 7 September 2018, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, 6­7 Sep 2018, London, United Kingdom. Biggs, Brandon and Yusim, Lena and Coppin, Peter (2018) The audio game laboratory: Building maps from games. In: The 24th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2018), 10­ 15 Jun 2018, Houghton, USA. Clark, Colin B.D. (2018) Many more stories: Co­design and creative communities. In: foldA: festival of live digital Arts, 19­22 Jun 2018, Kingston, Canada. (Unpublished) Desai, Maya and Veres, Angelika Seeschaaf and Snow, Nancy (2018) Creating space for diverse design culture in first year studio. In: The 34th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, (NCBDS), 1­3 Mar 2018, Cincinnati, USA. Hunt, Richard G. (2018) View of typographic diversity in early­year typography studios. In: The 34th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, (NCBDS), 1­3 Mar 2018, Cincinnati, USA. Jones, Lee and Gardner, Paula and Puckett, Nick (2018) Your body of water: A display that visualizes aesthetic heart rate data from a 3D camera. In: TEI '18 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 18­21 Mar 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. MacDonald, Daniel E. and Natarajan, Thangam and Windeyer, Richard C. and Coppin, Peter and Steinman, David A. (2018) Data­driven sonification of CFD aneurysm models. In: The 24th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2018), 10­15 Jun 2018, Houghton, USA. Mahadevan, Karthik and Somanath, Sowmya and Sharlin, Ehud (2018) Enabling pedestrian communication with autonomous vehicles. In: CHI 2018 workshop Interacting with Autonomous Vehicles: Learning from other Domains, 22 Apr 2018, Montrèal, Canada. (Submitted) Mahadevan, Karthik and Somanath, Sowmya and Sharlin, Ehud (2018) "Fight­or­flight": Leveraging instinctive human defensive behaviors for safe human­robot interaction. In: HRI ’18 Companion, 5­8 Mar 2018, Chicago, USA. Morris, Alexis and Lessio, Nadine (2018) Deriving privacy and security considerations for CORE. In: MPS '18 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Privacy and Security, 15­19 Oct 2018, Toronto, Canada. Sellen, Kate and Veres, Angelika Seeschaaf and Chau, Wesley and Kerr, Helen (2018) Ciel: Collaborative engagement to reduce deaths from opiate overdose. In: International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education 6 & 7 September 2018, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, 6­7 Sep 2018, London, United Kingdom. Van Kampen, Saskia (2018) Leveraging diversity in the studio classroom. In: The 34th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, (NCBDS), 1­3 Mar 2018, Cincinnati, USA.

Book

Goehr, Lydia and Davies, David and Kiloh, Kathy J. and McNulty, Jake and Hindrichs, Gunnar and Dorschel, Andreas and Rink, John (2018) Virtual Works – Actual Things: Essays in Music Ontology. Orpheus Institute Series . Leuven University Press, Leuven, Belgium. ISBN 9789462701403

Moving Image

Milgram, Lynne B. (2018) Gift­commodity conversations in a transnational Philippine market trade. [Moving Image]

Other Publications:

B. Lynne Milgram Professor of Anthropology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences & School of Interdisciplinary Studies

2019 Informality, Advocacy and Governmentality in Urbanizing Northern Philippine Cities: Baguio, Benguet and Dagupan, Pangasinan. (co­written with Ty Matejowsky). Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia. Rita Padawangi, ed., 433­446. London and New York: Routledge. 2018 Activating Alternatives in Public Market Trade: The Resilience of Urban Fresh Food Provisioning in Baguio, Philippines. In Cities in Asia by and for the People. Yves Cabannes, Michael Douglass, and Rita Padawangi, eds., 197­224. Amsterdam, NL: University of Amsterdam Press. 2018 Informality and Legality in Women’s Livelihoods in Baguio City. In Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Philippine Culture and Political Economy. Mark Thompson and Eric V. Batalla, eds., 284­306. London and New York: Routledge.

Gabrielle Moser Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences & School of Interdiscplinary Studies

Book: Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire. Penn State University Press, December 2018.

Sowyma Somanath Assistant Professor, Faculty of Design

A. Tran, S. Somanath, E. Sharlin, "Using Supernumerary Robotic Arms for Background Tasks.” In Poster Session Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI 2018). 2018. Toronto, Canada. K. Mahadevan, S. Somanath, E. Sharlin, "Communicating Awareness and Intent in Autonomous Vehicle­Pedestrian Interaction." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'18). 2018. Montreal, Canada A. Tran, S. Somanath, and E. Sharlin, "Supernumerary Arms for Gestural Communication." Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI Late­Breaking Work. ACM. 2018. Montreal, Canada K. Mahadevan, S. Somanath, E. Sharlin, "Can Interfaces Facilitate Communication in Autonomous Vehicle­Pedestrian Interaction?" Companion Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human­Robot Interaction (HRI'18 Pioneers Workshop). 2018. Chicago, United States Campbell, T., and Somanath, S. (2018, April). “Negotiating Ethical Making between Humans and Machines.” CHI Workshop on Maker Movements, Do­It­Yourself Cultures and Participatory Design. ACM Overview of Research Services

ROMEO Researcher Portal for Research Awards and Ethics Research Office Research Ethics Board

**Get on the PULSE! Submit your research news, events, stories, and successes to [email protected]**

© 2019 OCAD University. All rights reserved.