Greetings Design Educators, Graduates, and Recent Students,
OCAD University is seeking for four positions qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous to Turtle Island and/or as racialized peoples, which includes individuals who identify as Black of African descent, as well as individuals who identify as of South Asian, Southeast Asian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and Korean descent, and individuals who identify as of non-white Arab, North African, and West Asian descent as well as non-white Latin American descent (this list reflects the Statistics Canada categories of ‘visible minority’ groups, as defined for federal employment equity purposes). This initiative is a special program under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Application deadlines for most likely review are February 4, 2022.
Chair of Advertising Program in the Faculty of Design
The Faculty of Design is seeking a dynamic academic leader steeped in decolonial practices to assume the position of Chair of the Advertising program. The successful candidate will teach in the Faculty of Design and help to carry out the ethos of Respectful Design. We are especially seeking candidates who can teach in the areas of algorithmic advertising, data analytics, and/or 3D augmented and mixed reality advertising.
More information at OCAD U Advertising Chair<https://tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=OCADU&cws=37&rid=2240>.
Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor Industrial Design, specializing in Interaction Design
OCAD University invites applicants to one (1) Tenure-Track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the program of Industrial Design, with a focus on designing interactive, technology-enabled products, services, systems, and/or environments. The Faculty of Design seeks candidates who can demonstrate how their lived experiences and community connections inform their work and whose theoretical, technical, and making/design expertise provide offerings that meet one or more of the current areas of need within the Faculty:
1. The dismantling of racial, gender, and cultural biases in machine learning which affects communities’ interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) enhanced products, services, systems, and/or environments;
2. The inclusion of Indigenous and/or racialized perspectives and intersectional experiences into the design and engineering of smart “sensing” products, services, systems, and/or environments; and/or
3. The ethical engineering and use of machine movement in robotic products, services, systems, and/or environments to support and include culturally, physically, and cognitively diverse communities.
More information at OCAD U Interaction Design<https://tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=OCADU&cws=37&rid=2241>.
Tenure-Track Position Assistant/Associate Professor Graphic Design, typography (non-Latin writing systems)
OCAD University invites applicants to one (1) Tenure-Track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the program of Graphic Design, with a focus on typography and non-Latin writing systems. The Faculty of Design seeks candidates who can demonstrate how their lived experiences and community connections inform their work and whose theoretical and technical expertise in the making of images and text informs their teaching. Applications should demonstrate expertise in the trends and technologies of either interaction, editorial (print and screen), wayfinding, and/or letterform design as it relates to one or more writing systems and contemporary typography needed within the program:
1. Perso-Arabic;
2. Indic-derived (ex. Devanagari, Bengali-Assamese, or Thai);
3. East Asian scripts such as Chinese or Korean;
4. Indigenous scripts, such as Cherokee syllabics or those derived from Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics;
5. African scripts, such as Ethiopic (Ge’ez) or Adlam
More information at OCAD U Graphic Design<https://tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=OCADU&cws=37&rid=2242>.
Tier 1. Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Creative Practice
OCAD University invites applications from researchers and creative research/practitioners in the area of Indigenous Creative Practices to be the University’s nominee for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in this field. The University is seeking an outstanding Indigenous researcher recognized by their peers as an international leader and cross-disciplinary scholar/practitioner who has demonstrated significant contributions to knowledge production and scholarship in one or more areas of Indigenous Visual Art, Curatorial Practice, Media, Performance, and Design as well as having generated a substantial, internationally celebrated record of work at both national and international levels. The CRC in Indigenous Creative Practices will be expected to build research capacity in keeping with the OCAD U Strategic Research Plan, as well as support and facilitate the integration of Indigenous research into the curriculum across OCAD University.
More information at OCAD U CRC Indigenous Creative Practice<https://tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=OCADU&cws=37&rid=2044>. NOTE: This position has been open since June 2021 so apply ASAP.
I am the chair of the first three searches so feel free to contact me with any questions. I will point you in the right direction for the fourth position.
OCAD University is doing very dynamic work in the decolonization of design. We are eager for new colleagues who might join our movement.
Dori Tunstall
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ELIZABETH (DORI) TUNSTALL (She/her)
DEAN, FACULTY OF DESIGN
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OCAD University acknowledges the ancestral and traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe and the Huron-Wendat, who are the original owners and custodians of the land on which we gather and create.
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