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The Healing Power Of Art: Navigating Identity And Belonging, Shenqui Huang, Jingzi Ruan, Liuhan Dong, Christina Sun

Egypt Migrations Partnership and Comparative Immigrant Experiences

After choosing the theme artwork, our group tried to explore its connection to immigrants from various perspectives. After researching different immigrants and receiving suggestions from peers, we focused on “The Healing Power of Art”. In this project, we found 7 artists who originated from Egypt, Greece and Judea who became Canadian immigrants at different phases of time and tried to compare their experiences and how they use art as a power to heal themselves or others.

Weaving Material Connexion Into Curriculum, Shelley Woods, Gouthami Vigneswaran, Patricia Buckley

Publications and Scholarship

Weaving Material ConneXion into the Curriculum poster presented at OLA Super Conference 2020.

Teacherless: The Futures Of Design Education, Andrew Hladkyj

Publications and Scholarship

With the ever-growing disruption of education by technology and the trend toward self-directed and autonomous learning, how might we reimagine legacy postsecondary design education in a “teacherless” society? Through a human-centred examination of today’s educational environment, this Major Research Project (MRP) derives 20 aspirational motivations at the heart of an independent

learning model. It reframes the disconnect between design academia and industry using an ’80s computer game and a Greek myth as fresh paradigms to uncover the value of strategic partnership, addictive learning, and platform-agnostic foundational training in preparing post-secondary design education for the future. This research offers four alternative …

Art History Course Texts, Don Wightman

Course Content

Information on the course readings for the topics covered in an art and art history course.

Animation Field Trips, Don Wightman

Course Content

Information for animation students on visiting the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to conduct research for their projects.

Art History Course Outline, Don Wightman

Course Content

The course outline for the FAS245H Painting II taught at Sheridan College includes information on studio and discussion topics covered (e.g., painted surface, picture denotation, and Canadian and international painting) as well as required and recommended textbooks.

Art History Course Intro, Don Wightman

Course Content

An Introduction to an art and art history course including information on student expectations, materials required and studio safety.

Art History Articles, Don Wightman

Course Content

A list of writings on art and art philosophy by Edmund Burke Feldman, C.S. Lewis, John Hospers, Clive Bell, Leo Tolstoy, Peter Wollen, and Joseph Kosoth.

Course Description, Don Wightman

Course Content

A five-week animation course taught at Sheridan in 1976/1977 consisted of two main parts: 1) research and ideation sketches during museum visits and 2) final artwork based on the research and preliminary sketches. The course description also included information on assignment requirements and what students would be graded on.

Course Readings, Don Wightman

Course Content

Required and optional textbooks on the subjects of art fundamentals, art theories and drawing techniques.

Handouts For Themes, Don Wightman

Course Content

An outline for a design course mentioned the topics covered (e.g., proto-modernism, Gestalt, formalism, and semiotics) and the assignment/handout that accompanied each topic.

Wightman Philosophy, Don Wightman

Reflective Teaching

A handout with quotes by Don Wightman and other writers on creativity, communication and the relationship between nature and humans.

Museum Reflection, Don Wightman

Reflective Teaching

Don Wightman reminded students in an animation course to attend the museum visits regularly so they could conduct research for their assignments.

Feedback For Students, Don Wightman

Reflective Teaching

In a feedback to students in an animation course, Don Wightman provided suggestions on areas for improvement. For example, professionalism and in-depth research.

Art Education Feedback, Don Wightman

Reflective Teaching

Don Wightman provided feedback to his students on their work from the first semester of an art course. While Wightman expressed positive comments on their work, he mentioned that students needed to “acknowledge the relationship between conceptual objectives and visual manifestations” and unify these two in their artwork. Students needed to be more intentional and to connect what they created with the underlying concepts they were trying to convey. He said that in order to facilitate this goal, he would present more restrictive parameters for the assignments in the second semester.

Integrating Non-Traditional Materials Into The Design Process, Todd Barsanti

Publications and Scholarship

In May 2016, Todd Barsanti attended a one week residency for design educators, hosted by Design Inquiry (designinquiry.net). The residency was held at The Poor Farm, on Vinalhaven Island, in Maine. He used the opportunity to work out some communications that had been percolating since he completed his Master’s Degree in Environmental Studies five years ago; a series of posters that communicate ways in which our patterns of consumption are not sustainable. Beyond the output, though, Todd was interested primarily in documenting the process of creating communications using non-traditional materials. For six days, he mucked around in the mud, experimented …

Sustainability Through A Systems-Based Design Process, Todd Barsanti

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

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Design As Choreography: Information In Action, Heidi Overhill

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

Museum exhibitions are conventionally understood to be educational, meaning that they convey information to visitors. The content of this information is understood to include visual, auditory, and written media, as well as content from tactile, spatial, and social encounters. This article asserts that visitors also gain knowledge through bodily kinesthetic experiences while in the exhibition setting. Emerging research in other areas has revealed connections between physical posture and cognitive issues, such as emotion and attitude, but this has not yet been applied to museum practice. This article suggests that exhibition planning could exploit bodily experience more explicitly as a form …

Apple Pie Proxemics: Edward T. Hall In The Kitchen Work Triangle, Heidi Overhill

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

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Reflections On The Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training In Chicago, Todd Barsanti

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

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Designing Experiences, Todd Barsanti

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

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Designers As Facilitators Of Change, Todd Barsanti

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

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Integrating Sustainability Into Design Education, Todd Barsanti

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

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Defining Sustainability For Designers, Todd Barsanti

Faculty Publications and Scholarship

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