Social + Interactive Media Centre

Participedia

Affinity Bridge + SIM develop global platform for democracy research

DEQQ

Work at Play + SIM bring innovative social media platform to the classroom

eBook

BookRiff + SIM investigate the form and function of the ebook

Eat Street

Paperny Films + SIM explore new online opportunities

Recent Blog Posts

Ebook Design Possibilities: User Generated Content and Annotation

Jill Silva

In ECUAD's current Ebook class(DESN 214), taught by Jonathan Aitken, the students were recently broken up into groups and asked to analyze the realm of ebooks under very specific scopes...

An overview of ebook design possibilities

Alexandra Samuel

This fall, Design professor Jonathan Aitken is teaching a 4th year communications design class on Next-generation Ebook Design. In this class, students will work with content teams to develop design prototypes for 5 different ebook...

The post-reading generation talks about the future of books

Alexandra Samuel

Today I got to be a (tweeting) fly on the wall in Jonathan Aitken's ebook design class. Somewhat to my amusement, Jonathan began by explaining how old people...

Think I Can Sync Up My Death with Google Calendar?

Jill Silva

What is Elysium? Simply put, it is "The next generation of social media subdermal implant". This next generational idea was planted, molded and digitized by the Vancouver-based conceptual designer Desmond Wong.

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Back to school at the juncture of art & social science

Alexandra Samuel

Walking through the front doors of Emily Carr today after a few days in political science land was a reawakening to the extraordinary.The gallery by the front doors was bursting with fresh pieces, including something that requires you to put on headphones and look at a painting of...

Welcome to the SIM Centre

The Social + Interactive Media Centre is a new research centre that supports a wide range of applied social, interactive and design projects. Funded by a 5-year grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the centre offers BC companies a way to tap the design, creative and technical expertise of Emily Carr faculty and students.