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<\/a>The symposium topic discussions will explore how to develop a fuller understanding of human sensory messaging systems, using them to enhance our human experience, as well as strategies and educational approaches that can be utilized to heighten sensory awareness, improve sensory literacy, and enhance learning.<\/p>\nThe featured speaker will be Dr. Sara Diamond, president of OCAD University, formerly known as the Ontario College of Art and Design. Located in Toronto, the institution bills itself as Canada\u2019s \u201cuniversity of the imagination.\u201d <\/p>\n
She recently was honored as one of Canada\u2019s 150 leading women. Since her appointment in 2005, she has led OCAD University\u2019s evolution to a full university, helping to build its transdisciplinary and research-creation research capacity and infrastructure; integrating STEM subjects; creating its Digital Futures Initiative; launching the Indigenous Visual Culture Program; strengthening its approach to inclusion; and growing its undergraduate and graduate programs in studio art and design. <\/p>\n
Diamond is a researcher in media arts history and policy, as well as visual analytics. She has created wearable technologies, mobile experiences and media art. She is an appointee of the Order of Ontario and the Royal Canadian Academy of Artists.<\/p>\n
Her talk, \u201cSteam+D \u2014 21st-Century Knowledge,\u201d will take place at 4:15 p.m. in the Thompson Student Union Auditorium.<\/p>\n
Titles of other sessions include \u201cShared Fantasies: Becoming Political, Becoming Pedagogical,\u201d \u201cStudio Matrix System: Identifying Motivation and Setting a Course for Creative Artists With Disabilities,\u201d\u00a0\u201cMultisensory\/Multimodal Learning in Community Programs,\u201d\u00a0and \u201cA Picture\u2019s Worth 500 Typed, Double-Spaced Pages: The Use of Infographics for Improving Student Writing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lance Gharavi, associate professor and artistic director of theatre at Arizona State University, will discuss \u201cTruth, or Something Like It: Science, Art and Narrative\u201d at 10:30 a.m. in Thompson Student Union Room 2592.<\/p>\n
An experimental artist, scholar and early pioneer in digital performance, Gharavi specializes in collaborating with transdisciplinary teams of artists, scientists, designers and engineers to create original and innovative works of media-rich, live performance. <\/p>\n
He collaborated with EarthScope \u2014 the largest solid Earth science project funded by the National Science Foundation \u2014 to write a children\u2019s book about earthquakes. Other projects include an ongoing initiative in robotics and performance, a production about the physics of the Earth\u2019s deep interior, and a game-based investigation into the sociology of human space exploration.<\/p>\n