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Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Specializing in Interactive Practices Jobs in Toronto – Ontario at OCAD University
Title: Tenure-Track: Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Specializing in Interactive Practices
Company: OCAD University
Location: Toronto – Ontario
Category: Design & Architecture
Tenure-Track:
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Specializing in Interactive Practices Job Code 3188 Department Faculty of Design
Employment Type
Permanent
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Job Brief This position seeks graphic designers with a focus on any of the following practices: interactivity, generative media, creative computation, post-digital design practices, usability, and/or experience design. OCAD University acknowledges the ancestral territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabeg and the Huron-Wendat, who are the original owners and custodians of the land on which we live, work, and create.
This opportunity is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as Black peoples of African descent (including Africans and African heritage people from the Caribbean, North America and Latin America) and Indigenous Peoples of North America or Peoples of Turtle Island, including those who identify as First Nations (status, non-status, treaty or non-treaty), Métis, Inuit, or Alaskan Native, Native American, and Native Hawaiian Peoples.
This initiative is a special program under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
OCAD University (OCAD U),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.
Itisanexciting time to join the OCAD U community. The University is at a key stage in its institutional transformation, with the implementation of its Academic and Strategic Plan and guiding principles—driving
positive impact
, decolonization, indigenization, and equity, environmental
sustainability
, emerging as a vibrant hub, student-centered approaches,
innovation
in learning, teaching, and research, and financial stewardship.
The Faculty of Design is the largest of OCAD U’s three faculties. It boasts six undergraduate programs:
Advertising, Environmental Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, and Material Art & Design (i.e. textiles and jewelry). The design-related
Graduate Programs
include
Inclusive
Design, Design for Health, Strategic Foresight and
Innovation
,
Interdisciplinary
Art, Media, and Design; and Digital Futures. The University is especially seeking candidates who might also contribute to the
Inclusive
Design and Strategic Foresight and
Innovation
graduate programs
.
The Faculty of Design invites applications for one (1) Tenure-Track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the program of Graphic Design. The position seeks graphic designers with a focus on any of the following practices: interactivity, generative media, creative computation, post-digital design practices, usability, and/or experience design.
The candidate should demonstrate a critical engagement with their field and familiarity with contemporary issues pertaining to design and its relationship to digital technology. Candidates who demonstrate capacity to …
