Meet some of our students from the 2023-2024 cohort
Emily Bain is a graphic designer, artist, and researcher focused on the intersection of spatial design and accessibility. Her work explores interactivity, tactility, and multi-sensory information as means to enhance or move beyond standard visual communication methods. Informed by critical cartography, ethnography, and critical design studies, her thesis research examines the inadequacies in pedestrian and active transit infrastructure caused by car-centric urban design.
Abygail is a designer located in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Their Master of Design research investigates how user-modifications to objects can influence designers to create more inclusive products, and asks about the ways our current systems of mass production fail our users. Abygail holds a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta in industrial design, and has since worked with medical and healthcare organizations in design and communications. They are interested in design for social change, inclusive design, accessibility, and speculative design.
Florence Boucher is a designer and visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Through her design practice, illustration, printmaking and zines, she shares her sensitive view on her immediate environment. Wonder, contemplation, long walks and interaction with the very small and very large elements of nature are at the core of her symbols. She is currently working on a MDes in research-creation which seeks to rethink design through the poetic experience of urban wastelands. The rest of the time, she picks bouquets of wild plants, prints cyanotypes in the sun, or identifies birds in the big tree next to her apartment.
