Room LB-205 Ehsan Akbari (Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, Canada)Sensing the Environmental through Art EducationIn this presentation, I will explore ways educators can integrate art and sensory education to sensitize learners to environmental issues. Bertling (2023) argued for the urgency of incorporating eco-pedagogy in art education to inspire a generation of ecologically aware citizens. Such teaching aims to nourish l...

In "Learning(with)plants" interactive workshop we will invite one guest plant to participate in our practice-based research space of sensing and healing with plants. We will reflect on vegetal intelligence and will question what plants can teach us and how they can participate in our mutual learning to respond to the challenges of the fast-changing world. We will be sharing stories, memories, experiences, feelings, diverse knowledges and we will be writing(with)plants by shapeshifting into a ...

The sound, video, performative site-specific intervention Nous sommes au cinéma will be presented in Cinéma moderne’s projection room. In order to highlight the very sensorial sense of presence in this piece, the site-specific experience is necessary. The relationships between seeing, listening and touching are tightened by a confusing sense of what is real or not. In order to address the huge challenges that are linked to the environmental collapse, I strongly believe that it is not only o...

Organizer: Ayaka Yoshimizu ∆ (Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada)Reorienting ourselves to various multisensorial experiences, this panel brings together concepts, applications, and unintended consequences of sensory education from three different fields of intercultural learning: communication studies, language studies, and an international exchange program. To explore the ways of attuning to what is otherwise insensible or unintelligible, Sekimoto w...

Organizer: Carsten Stabenow ∆This proposal is a data sensing and sonification approach focused on monitoring and comparing water qualities with a modular and lightweight field-kit. A sensor-data-input/CV-output module on Arduino base can monitor basic water quality parameters – pH-value, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Dissolved oxygen (DO), Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) and temperature. The CV outputs can be patched to a VCLFO/VCO circuit and filter banks to generate an audio and ...

Organizer: Akihisa Iwaki ∆ (Kindai University, Japan)Scented Acrylic Colors (https://camp-fire.jp/projects/777431/view) is a scented acrylic paint released at the end of 2024.This innovative product is a collaboration between @aroma’s "100% pure natural essential oils" and Holbein’s high-quality acrylic paints, Acrylic Color (Heavy Body). The project began with a meeting between Masaki Taniguchi (affectionately known as Maa-chan), a visually impaired painter, and scenting design...

Organizer: David Garneau ∆ (Visual Arts, University of Regina, Canada)  David Garneau ∆ (Visual Arts, University of Regina, Canada)The Extended Field of Indigenous Traditional and Contemporary ArtMétis Sensuality is a panel consisting of three artists struggling to make art that expresses the complexity of contemporary, urban, Indigenous lived experience inflected by Métis specificity. According to Plains Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and do...

Innovobot Labs is an innovation Design House, dedicated to tackling real-world problems through the development and application of cutting-edge technologies. Innovobot’s mission is to foster innovation across industries for the benefit of society. This event is of particular relevance to those interested in the development of haptic technologies. Places are limited. Pre-registration is required.Here is the link to register fo...