OCAD University, officially the Ontario College of Art and Design University, is a public university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school is within the Grange Park neighbourhood, and adjacent to the Art Gallery of Ontario. The school is Canada's largest and oldest educational institution for art and design. OCAD U offers courses through the Faculties of Art, Design, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and alternative programs. The enabling legislation is Ontario College of Art and Design University Act, 2002.
James Karl Bartleman, is a Canadian former diplomat and author who served as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 2002 to 2007.
Downtown Toronto is the city centre and main central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located entirely within the district of Old Toronto, it is approximately 14 square kilometers in area, bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don Valley to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west. It is also the governmental centre of the City of Toronto and the Province of Ontario.
SP!RE is a high-rise condominium building located at 70 Adelaide Street East at Church Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Context Developments. Construction was completed in 2007.
Rebecca Belmore is an interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is particularly notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. She is Ojibwe and member of the Lac Seul First Nation. Belmore currently lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Martha Jane Ladly is a Canadian academic, designer and musician. She is professor of design at OCAD University. Ladly also has had a long career as a musician and achieved international fame as part of rock band Martha and the Muffins. She had a solo career in the mid-1980s and then worked in design and education.
William Arthur Stewart "Bill" Buxton is a Canadian computer scientist and designer. He is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. He is known for being one of the pioneers in the human–computer interaction field.
Ontario College Advanced Diploma (OCAD) is a diploma awarded by certain colleges in Ontario, Canada, upon completion of a three-year program of study. These colleges are of a special type named Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology; see List of colleges in Ontario.
Grange Park is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded on the west by Spadina Avenue, on the north by College Street, on the east by University Avenue and on the south by Queen Street West. It is within the 'Kensington-Chinatown' City of Toronto planning neighbourhood. Its name is derived from the Grange Park public park. The commercial businesses of Chinatown extend within this neighbourhood.
McCaul Loop is a turning loop and the western terminus of the 502 Downtowner streetcar line of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of McCaul Street north of Queen Street West at the Village by the Grange mixed-use development, across the street from OCAD University.
Sara Louise Diamond, is a Canadian artist and the current president of OCAD University, Canada.
Bonnie Devine is an Anishinaabe/Ojibwa installation artist, performance artist, sculptor, curator, and writer from Serpent River First Nation, who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently an Associate Professor at OCAD University and the Founding Chair of its Indigenous Visual Cultural Program.
The Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) is a research and development centre at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. The centre defines inclusive design as that which "considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age and other forms of human difference." The research centre is directed by Jutta Treviranus. In 2011 the centre launched a Master of Design in Inclusive Design.
Toronto Design Week is the unofficial name of the events and exhibitions hosted by the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. It is a design showcase in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where numerous design exhibitions take place over a period of approximately one week towards the end of January.
Wendy Coburn was a Canadian artist and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. She is known for her sculptures and for her video-based show "Anatomy of a Protest" (2014).
Simone Jones is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist known for her kinetic artworks. She currently lives and works in Toronto as an artist and educator.
Wrik Mead is an artist/filmmaker from Toronto, Ontario and teaches at OCAD University.
Paul Epp is a Canadian professor and industrial designer from Toronto, Ontario.
Joan Burt is a Canadian architect and educator.
