Research Driving Innovation in Art

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Research Driving Innovation in Art DesignJune
6, 2006, Ontario R E Summit

• Sara Diamond
• President, OCAD

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The Age of Imagination in Ontario

• Art and design propel the best of creative risk
  taking. Art and design foster context and local
  awareness yet can offer the potent transcendence
  of place. Art and design inspire the courage of
  emotional engagement, coupled with critical
  thought. Art and design offer means to bridge
  conceptual and physical borders.
• Sara Diamond, Across Methodology Boundaries,
  ADEMSSS
• Cross-disciplinary research on methodology and
  epistemology within practice based research

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The Age of Imagination in Ontario

• Ability to understand people, their needs and
  facilitate planning and take up action lab
  approach
• Ability to provide methodologies for
  understanding the zeitgeist methods to
  understand edge disruptive practices
• Ability to imagine new business approaches
• Culture and entertainment building a set of
  robust industries through competitive practices
  and innovation
• Research in the nature of creativity and
  imagination

C Theory
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Performing arts arts link with many forms of
research

• Learningapproaches to learning that combine
  pleasure and knowledge
• Entertainment sector is a source of important
  technology innovation
• Cognitive researchmusic, movement, visual
  perceptionways of knowing and learning
• Building and sustaining viable industries
• Impacts on quality of life
• Community integration in diversity context
• Ability to communicate research

Tania Fraga
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New Media Research Content Technologies

• Digitization Cultural Industries
• Ambient Design lighting, sound, tactility,
  levels of communication all malleable

David Rokeby
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Media Arts Wellness

• Link visual art to health recovery and
  maintenance
• Health Communication
• Toronto Memory Projectrecovery through mnemonic
  devices on mobile phones
• Cross disciplinary methods
• Work with new materialsnano and biotechnology

Toronto Memory Project
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Mobile Systems, Fashion, Emotion, Prevention

• Garments that comfort
• Garments that change based on emotional state
• Garments that remind you to medicate, exercise,
  eat
• Responds to gestures, blue tooth systems, bodies,
  communicate at a distance

Am-I-Able Project
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Visual knowledge visualization

• Collaboration tools
• Visual language--metaphors
• Able to work with science

Brad Paley, Catherine Richards, Horizonzero.ca
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Collaborationcapacities and tools

• Tools for collaboration that analyze social
  interaction
• Cross-cultural tools
• Integrate visualization into collaboration

Sara Diamond, Victoria Vesna, Maria Lantin
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Mobile Experience New Systems

• Mobile device engineering
• Experience research (games, interfaces)
• New materials applicationssensor systems
• Location based experiences

Mobile Digital Commons Network
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Methodology Innovation Research

• Design workshops develop experiences through
  brainstorming, develop metaphors to explore, then
  design in context

Game design workshop, Banff, December 2004
Mobile Digital Commons Network
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Initiatives in Ontario

• Entertainment and cultural industries research
  cluster group
• Across Disciplinary BoundariesADEMSSS (OCAD
  MaRS associated researchers)
• Canadian Design Research Network
• Inclusive Design Network
• iMatter
• Well Responsible, Responsive, and Healthy
• Beal Institute for Strategic Creativity
• Mobile Digital Commons
• Cultural institutions and ORION working group

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Innovation ModelsCross-Disciplinarywww.ocad.on.c
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• Three areas today
• Strategic Creativity trend prediction and
  business innovationAlex Manu, Director, Beal
  Centre
• Design research and sustainability, design
  with/for user communitiesJohn Danahy, Centre
  for Language Research
• Mobile Digital Commons Networknext generation
  mobile experiences and engineering, Michael
  Longford, CoPI, Concordia U.