Back in Spring 2011, three Emily Carr University students in the Industrial Design program (Jesi Carson, Jesse Mah and Irene Schmid) embarked on the task of redesigning North Vancouver's Lions Gate Hospital foyer. Working with hospital staff, architects, and ECUAD's resources, the three...
Come on down to the Vancouver Convention Centre August 9-11 to meet the team from the Emily Carr Health Design Lab. In addition to the Health Design Lab, the booth will showcase applied research partnerships of the Social +...
The Birthing Stool project aimed to produce a piece of furniture that would provide the birthing partner with their own place in the maternity room, while providing a means to unify the couple and give the partner a meaningful role.
The social model of disability challenges the idea that it is a medical problem requiring “treatment”, and asserts that it is a problem of overcoming barriers to ordinary life. Design seeks to serve this by providing solutions that are rooted in deep contextual understanding and integrate...
