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Canada's largest and oldest art and design university, is a vibrant community of bold, curious, and compassionate artists, designers and scholars who are imagining and creating a joyful, equitable, and sustainable world. The University is an internationally renowned hub for art, design, digital media, research, innovation and creativity, and arts administration. It embraces collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to change-making through art, design-thinking curriculum, and research, making OCAD U a local, regional, national, and global leader in art and design.
Students benefit from hands-on studio learning and have access to state-of-the-art shops and studios for both traditional and digital creation. Alongside a diverse and supportive team of instructors and peers, students gain employable skills. The offers numerous programs where students may earn a Masters of Design: Strategic Foresight and Innovation, Inclusive Design, Design for Health, Interdisciplinary Art/Media/Design, Digital Futures as well as a forthcoming Ph.D. in Creative Practice. The offers Bachelor of Design degrees in Advertising, Environmental Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Illustration, and Material Art and Design.
OCAD U graduates work in a variety of sectors such as advertising, art history and curatorial studies, digital futures, strategic foresight, inclusive design, health design, urban planning, environmental design, gaming, film, animation, publishing, illustration, graphic design, product design and consultancy, material-based design, visual arts, and arts administration.
OCAD University invites applications for a full-time Tenure-Track Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in research relevant to the future of Design at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank. The position is expected to commence January 1 or July 1, 2027, and is subject to budgetary approval. In addition, this position is contingent on the candidate's successful application to the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) program. The successful candidate will be required to participate in preparation of a CRC nomination package for submission in April 2026.
The successful candidate will demonstrate intersectional expertise in areas of research in the context of or related to the future of Design in areas such as: diverse modes of practice, community-engaged design practice, industrial design, health design , inclusive design, disability studies, decoloniality and social justice, sustainability and climate change action, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, design foresight, systems design, social/political creative practice, strategic foresight. Bringing together tangible design research, the Canada Research Chair (CRC) will provide visionary leadership for the development, deployment, and use of design principles and decolonial practices within a matrix of fields.
The Canada Research Chair Tier II is for exceptional researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. The successful candidate should have experience as a Principal Investigator on at least one major, multi-year Tri-council grant or other national/external grant, either held previously or currently.
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