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Faculty of Education » Home » Congratulations to Dr. Derek Gladwin

Congratulations to Dr. Derek Gladwin

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Derek Gladwin and his team on receiving a $20,000 UBC Public Humanities Hub (PHH) Priority Thematic Research Incubator Grant for their project, “Sustainable Sound Installations: Harmonizing Aesthetics, Education, and Upcycling”. This project and team are affiliated with the Systems Beings Lab, a transdisciplinary research collective centred on systems and complexity education at UBC.

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Derek Gladwin, Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Faculty of Education.

Team members include:
Dr. Michele Koppes, Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts; 
Dr. Kedrick James, Professor of Teaching, Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Faculty of Education; 
Dr. Naoko Ellis, Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science; 
Dr. Danielle Ignace, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry; and 
Dr. Will Valley, Associate Dean, Equity, Decolonization, and Inclusion, and Associate Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Land & Food Systems.

Thematic area: Environmental/Climate, Land & Place-Based Humanities

Abstract: This transdisciplinary project proposes a collaboration that integrates sound, aesthetics, regenerative design, and sustainable engineering to create, install, and exhibit wood resonators (sound speakers) at UBC. Aligned with Berkowitz and Gibson’s (2022) perspective on public humanities emphasizing relationships across time and interconnectedness, the project explores the ecological and aesthetic impacts of upcycling as creative use into artistic installations of wood resonators that function as translators of soundscapes and ecologies. The focus is on aesthetic experience for the public, with resonators serving as eco-aesthetic representations incorporating humanistic and environmental elements. The investigation involves a highly multidisciplinary team, reflecting the diverse research praxis intersecting in the project. The project aligns with the principles of public humanities, emphasizing the active engagement of “doing” in the design, production, and immersive experiences of artistic upcycling. The project plans to install the resonators inside the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) and another external space on the UBC campus. Research on public and user impact will be conducted to assess the broader implications of the resonator installations and their scalability for future funding.

Learn more about the PHH Priority Thematic Research Incubator Grand here.


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