I am first editor of Situating Design in Alberta, a forthcoming publication with the University of Alberta Press. The book introduces Alberta designers and design work and their local/global contexts—social, cultural, historical, physical, political and economic.

Our reviewers wrote: this manuscript is “ground-breaking in the sense that it will provide a basis for future research and/or as a model for similar studies in other provinces or territories.” They also noted that the book 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 J. 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

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