I am an editor of Situating Design in Alberta, a new book published by the University of Alberta Press. The book introduces Alberta designers and design work and their local/global contexts.
Reviewers called the book ground-breaking and wrote that it has “potential to influence policy makers within the province of Alberta as they work to rethink the economy” and could “contribute to how the future of the province is shaped.”
Contributors: Isabel Prochner, Tim Antoniuk, Douglas Cardinal, Ken Bautista, Carlos Fiorentino, Maria Goncharova, Andrea Hirji, Mark Iantkow, Barry Johns, Lyubava Kroll, Courtenay Ruth McKay, Skye Oleson-Cormack, Janice Rieger, Elizabeth Schowalter, Megan Strickfaden, Tyler Vreeling, Ron Wickman
Related work:
- “Wish You Were Here: The Souvenir as Emblem of Regional Identity,” co-chaired session at College Art Association Conference 2019
- “Expanding Canadian Design Studies,” co-chaired session at Universities Art Association of Canada Conference 2018
- “Re-designing perceptions: Development of Alberta’s industrial design sector, 1998 to present,” article in The Canadian Business Journal (2012)
- “Understanding the Past to Imagine the Future: The History of Industrial Design Practice in Alberta,” graduate thesis at the University of Montreal (2012)
