Assistant/associate Professor in Industrial Design - Vancouver, Canada - Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

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Assistant or Associate Professor in
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Industrial Design within the Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media (DDM).

Situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səḻ ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil‐Waututh) territories in Vancouver, Canada, Emily Carr University is a world‐renowned learning and research community dedicated to the education of artists and designers.
The Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design, situated in the Ian Gillespie Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media (DDM), focuses on developing critically engaged and contextually aware design work. Industrial Design practices are multilayered and interwoven to create complex ways and means of being and interacting with our world; they can include: modes of material practices and production and critical, ecological and political practices. Design at Emily Carr University has evolved as a practice that responds to and engages the world around us, focusing on creating compelling interactions, narratives and experiences grounded in the ecological, political and sociotechnical contexts of contemporary societies. All majors in the DDM Faculty share values and goals in areas of collaboration, sustainability, interdisciplinarity, critical engagement with technology, new research methods, new approaches to design and the making of imaginative and provocative work.
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RESPONSIBILITIES

Teaching core and elective studio courses in the Industrial Design curriculum.
Teaching and mentoring students across multiple year levels at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.
Active participation in curriculum and program development and planning.
Providing service to the Faculty and universitywide governance systems by participation in various committees and working groups, as well as being an active and engaged member of the University community.
An active research, scholarly, and/or creative practice.

Required Qualifications

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QUALIFICATIONS

MDes or equivalent graduate degree in a related field, or the equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
A strong portfolio of work within industrial design.
The ability to teach a range of practicebased studio courses at the intersection between design research, practice and theory.
Demonstrated ability and openness to teamteaching.
Evidence of work in advancing decolonization, Indigenization, and equity in institutional settings.
Strong communication and facilitation skills.
Possess the ability to work effectively in interdisciplinary design teams on curriculum focusing on ethical design practices addressing cultural, socio/political, and sustainability issues.
Be fluent in participatory and practice‐led design research methods and understand the importance of iterative modeling as a part of the design process.
The ability to work collaboratively and across disciplines.
Areas of focus may include:
Community and social practice.
Local relevant practices.
Health design.
Ecological literacy and focus on sustainable design.
Decolonizing design content and methods.
Morethanhuman futures.
Product‐service‐systems.
Material practice and research.
Systems thinking.
New paradigms of making and sharing.
Localism.

Preferred Qualifications

About Emily Carr

Emily Carr University of Art + Design, established in 1925, is a world leader in education and research. Encouraging experimentation at the intersection of art, design, media and technology, our teaching and learning community merges studio practice, research creation, and critical scholarship in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Alumni and faculty are internationally recognized as award‐winning creators and thought leaders who have significant impact in 21st‐century cultural production and cultural sustainability. We engage students, industry, and society to iterate and explore, and think differently about creativity and how it shapes our world.
Located in beautiful and culturally diverse Vancouver, British Columbia, Emily Carr attracts more than 1800 students from 60 countries to our undergraduate and graduate programs. The Audain Faculty of Art is one of four university faculties (alongside, Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media, Faculty of Culture + Community, and Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies) which, together with the Aboriginal Gathering Place, Library + Learning Commons, Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, Libby Leshgold Gallery, READ Books, and the research centres and workshops in our new state‐of‐the‐art, custom‐built campus, offer vibrant conditions for the development of practicebased and practice‐led research and education.
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