Professor
University of Alberta
Edmonto, Alberta
– Canada
MEGAN STRICKFADEN is a design anthropologist, researcher, and educator. She is a professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta (Canada) and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at Hasselt University (Belgium). Prior to entering academia, Strickfaden worked full-time as a design consultant for twelve years and continues to combine practice with research. She is in her twenty-eight year of teaching and has hundreds of scholarly outcomes (patents, designed products, exhibitions, films) including recent films Light in the Borderlands (2013), Evolving Lines (2015), Dementia Care by Design (2015), and Smoke Time (2019). Her research programme focuses on looking into how specialty environments and products support quality of life for people with different abilities including older adults and those with disabilities. Strickfaden is the author of Foundations in the Material Environments of Aging (Yunshi Beijing Publishers, 2017); co-editor of Rethinking Disability: World Perspectives in Culture and Society (Garant Publishers, 2016); Space and Culture, Special Issue: (Im)Materiality: Designing for More Sense/s, 15, 3 (2012); and the sole editor of Societies, Special issue: Interrogating Representations of dis/Ability within and through Material Culture (2016).
Wednesday, November 6
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM