{"id":411,"date":"2019-03-06T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.eciad.ca\/gr\/?p=221"},"modified":"2025-01-31T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:15:35","slug":"activating-the-graphic-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/graphicresearch\/2019\/03\/06\/activating-the-graphic-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Activating the Graphic Lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After more than a year of work, the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.eciad.ca\/gr\/graphic-lab-for-teens\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graphic Lab for teens<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is almost ready. Research, consultation, acquisition, prototyping, exploration&#8230; a lot of preparatory work has been done. It is now time to gather it all together and activate the space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 7 and April 12, members of the Graphic Research Unit (GRU) will travel to the Sunshine Coast to help re-envision and activate\u00a0the Graphic Lab at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/shard\/s411\/client\/snv?noteGuid=1a9651b3-e518-4616-ada9-1baae38864be&amp;noteKey=cc1113454fcd6a8016625ec9bd1fd409&amp;sn=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.evernote.com%2Fshard%2Fs411%2Fsh%2F1a9651b3-e518-4616-ada9-1baae38864be%2Fcc1113454fcd6a8016625ec9bd1fd409&amp;title=Gibsons%2BYMCA%2BYouth%2BCentre\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gibsons YMCA Youth Centre<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Members of the GRU will\u00a0deploy their design skills to help draw traffic to the youth centre and demonstrate to youth some of the great possibilities and potential held within the space. During the site visits, the GRU Master of Design students\u00a0will also hold small workshops, collaborating with youth around their specific areas of design research. What better way to showcase the potential of a Graphic Lab than to give the space a little design makeover, and then put it all to use?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many lessons can be learned from adapting design resources to the specific needs and skill sets of teenagers. Those lessons can be applied\u00a0to make mainstream design resources more accessible, safer, easier to understand, less expensive, and more impactful. By engaging with teenagers (our edge case), we learn how to make design practices more accessible and empowering for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many thanks to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gv.ymca.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YMCA of the Greater Vancouver<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrd.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunshine Coast Regional District<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrd.ca\/Gibsons-and-Area-Community-Centre\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gibsons Area Community Centre<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> without whom this collaboration would not have been possible. Many thanks also to the Master of Design student members of the Graphic Research Unit: Medha Mistry, Devansh Parikh and Laura Caceres Rivero. This project is made possible by a grant from the President&#8217;s Office at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a year of work, the Graphic Lab for teens is almost ready. Research, consultation, acquisition, prototyping, exploration&#8230; a lot of preparatory work has been done. 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