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Outgoing OCAD University dean Dori Tunstall

Editor’s Note: This listing was updated on October 26, 2022.

OVERVIEW

With a focus on decolonizing design, OCAD University has made meaningful change over the past several years. In 2018, under the leadership of Dean Dori Tunstall, who has employed cluster hires as a strategy for transforming the school’s culture, it hired five new permanent Indigenous faculty, including the Faculty of Design’s James Miller, Howard Munroe and Melanie Printup Hope. And two years later, the Faculty of Design also hired five tenure-track faculty members who self-identify as Black peoples of African descent: Angela Bains, Kestin Cornwall, Kathy Moscou, Michael Lee Poy and Marton Robinson. Since joining the school in 2016, Tunstall has implemented “respectful design” as a pedagogical framework.

Wenjing Hong presented her Oriqlo concept for recyclable kids’ clothing at GradEx 2021

For prospective students, this signifies that the Faculty of Design means business when it speaks of providing them with the skills to develop sustainable products, services and interactions that honour socio-economic and planetary boundaries. In the four-year Bachelor of Design program, students learn systems and service design; design with and for emerging technologies; interaction and experience design; and product and service design for health and wellness sector. Fourth-year students present their work at GradEx, Toronto’s largest free art and design exhibition; recent projects have included a dating app for people with visual impairments, and a kids clothing line that teaches children how to upcycle their outfits into household wares (a hand towel, a pet’s toy) after they outgrow them.

Notable alumni

Shary Boyle, Matthew Evans, Rebecca Belmore

Notable faculty

Howard Munroe, Maya Desai

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