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Keith Doyle

Associate Dean and Associate Professor

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Education:

MFA
BFA

Bio

Keith Doyle’s interests include collaborative practices in art and design through modalities of making and knowledge mobilization. He has led projects investigating New Craft and transformational design practices, material production technologies, regenerative material creation and textiles and design research. His projects include Pedestrian Protest, cloTHINGS as conversation, Here//Too//For, Charred Wood and the 21st Milano Triennale’s Liminal Labs.

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Research Interests

Keith's projects have been funded by the B.C. Arts Council, B.C. Forestry, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP), and others. His research interests include reflexive and translative design practices and emergent material technologies. Since 2012 he has supervised Master of Design and Master of Fine Arts candidates, and Bachelor of Design research projects.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Graduate Studies Design GSMD 600 26/FA

Description

Students will focus on their independent thesis project as the primary focus of the semester. Applying primary research conducted over the summer, students will develop their design, realized as some form of prototype/model for user testing. Outcomes include a public presentation of the thesis project early in the semester, and a substantially completed project by the end of the semester. Thesis projects may be experimental, research-oriented, educational or pragmatic, but remain directly relevant to the discipline of a design practice. The thesis project is an opportunity to demonstrate at an advanced level the integration of knowledge represented by the discipline of designing. The thesis project may exist as a designed artifact, service or system, environmental intervention, meaningful communication, media presentation, or any interactive adaption of the above. The thesis project is comprised of a production in some medium as well as a written component that progressively situates the production in and reflects on context. These two components - an innovation through media and the written contextualization of such a process, comprise the thesis project.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.