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CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE and the HEALTHY SOCIETY: A RESEARCH & INNOVATION SUMMIT

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM - Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 2:00 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE and the HEALTHY SOCIETY: A RESEARCH &...

Ticket Information

Type End     Quantity
Café Scientifique #1 / HospiTALK #1: Design, Art and the Healthcare Environment: Better Outcomes November 23 7:30pm-9:30pm Ended Free  
Café Scientifique #2; DESIGNing Health 2.0: Changing the Way We Manage Our Health November 24 12:15pm - 1:30pm Ended Free  
Café Scientifique #3 / HospiTALK #2: Art & Health: Healthy People, Healthy Communities November 24 7:00pm - 9:30pm Ended Free  
Plenary Session #1: Shadow Play: Exploring the Relationships Between Body and Space in Physical Rehabilitation and Public Health, November 24, 9:30am - 10:25am Ended Free  
Plenary Session #2: Integrating Art, Science and Health: Medical Visualization, November 24, 10:40am - 11:50am Ended Free  
Plenary Session #3: Total Design in the Health Space November 25, 11:15am- 12:15pm Ended Free  
Strategy Session #1: November 24, 3:45pm - 4:40pm Ended Free  
Strategy Session #2: November 25, 12:30pm - 1:50pm Ended Free  
Break-out Session #1: Design Methodologies November 24, 2:00pm - 3:30pm Ended Free  
Break-out Session #2: Art, Performance & Knowledge Translation (or Ways of Interpreting), November 24, 2:00pm - 3:30pm Ended Free  
Break-out Session #3: Inclusive Design for Health and Wellness, November 25, 9:20am - 11:00am Ended Free  
Break-out Session #4: Art, Rehabilitation and Mental Health, November 25, 9:20am - 11:00am Ended Free  
Break-out Session#5: Art, Design and New Product/Company Development, November 25, 9:20am - 11:00am Ended Free  

Event Details

EXPLORING THE WAYS IN WHICH ART, DESIGN AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE ARE IMPORTANT TO THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF THE PUBLIC AT-LARGE.

Cultural Knowledge and the Healthy Society: A Research & Innovation Summit was born of the belief that adding the knowledge and insights from design, cultural industries and creative/artistic research to health research will lead to a more effective system of health care and prevention as well as foster technological innovation.

This 2-day summit will bring together leading thinkers in Canada and internationally in the areas of design, art/creative research, cultural industries, health, humanities, social science, science and engineering to explore the possibilities of this interdisciplinary collaboration.

Interested in how design can help us understand mental health? What about how design thinking can direct health research to better outcomes in rehabilitation research?  How about what happens when artists and designers seek to chart patterns of psychosis? And how design research is important to successful health technology adoption? And then there's the space of medical visualization, ripe with myriad of collaborative possibilities among artists, designers, social scientists and medical researchers of all fields.

These are just some of the topics we'll be exploring over the course of the 2-day program which includes large keynote presentations, smaller panel discussions and presentations and intimate break-out sessions -- all for free. We just ask that you register as space is limited.

For more information on the sessions, please visit the conference website at http://www.ocad.ca/healthsummit.

This event is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC/CRNSG); the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (OAHPP), the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design; SHARCNET and the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION).

When & Where



Ontario College of Art & Design
100 McCaul Street
Various rooms
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Canada

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM - Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 2:00 PM (ET)


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OCAD (Ontario College of Art & Design)



The Ontario College of Art & Design has more depth and breadth in visual arts and design programs than any school of its kind in Canada. OCAD offers its students a unique environment that combines studio-based learning with critical inquiry. Programs lead to a BFA or BDes and, as of 2008/2009, an MA, MFA or MDes.

At OCAD, we educate imaginations. We consider the future. We also honour our history, recognizing the more than a century of achievement that distinguishes our alumni. Joining the remarkable artists and designers we’ve graduated are established cultural leaders, educators, innovators, creative thinkers and strategists.

OCAD students experience a range of research contexts and methodologies via the university's significant research arm. Soon they'll also have the opportunity to experience graduate programs, beginning in September 2008.

OCAD is located in the heart of Toronto, Canada’s largest centre for design, culture and business. This vibrant nexus brings together a diversity of creative forces. And where great minds meet, magic happens.

The Digital Futures Initiative is one such meeting. Breakthrough partnerships like this one represent the emerging imagination economy, and open the door to greater innovation, collaboration and research at OCAD and beyond. They unleash a wave of talent whose imaginings will revolutionize how Canada works, builds, designs, thinks and lives.

With the Age of Imagination upon us, creativity and innovation are transforming cultures and economies worldwide. Now more than ever before, we speak the language. We are the currency. Members of the OCAD community – our students, faculty and graduates – are uniquely qualified to act as catalysts for the next advances in culture, technology and quality of life for all Canadians.

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