• Wed 8:30am–11:20am — MAIN B3110

This course focuses on the ways in which design developed in Canada throughout history, taking European contact and colonialisms into account. It will address Indigenous materials and creations that designers have learned from, appropriated, and entangled, and examine the late 19th and early 20th-century conflation of designing and consuming with Canadian citizenship. Eras such as the Good Design movement and Canadian modernism/nationalism, Canada's history with DIY and repair, and anonymous/unacknowledged works will be examined within their social, cultural, political, technological, and economic contexts.