About Us
THE SYMBIOSIS OF PRACTICE RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGY
Cheryl Giraudy
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Cheryl Giraudy B.Arch. MSc. OAA MRAIC Educator, ARIDO is an Associate Professor at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. She practices architecture, with a focus on residential design, design research, and advocacy for equitable built environments and public space. Cheryl has also been a facility consultant on access standards for large government and corporate complexes. At OCAD U, she held posts of Associate Dean, Graduate Program Director (Inclusive Design) in the Faculty of Design, is currently in her 25th year of teaching in the Environmental Design and Interior Design programs. Over these years, she has engaged with communities across the city of Toronto as part of outreach, design and course based research including projects with major healthcare and social housing providers, and youth-focussed non-profit organizations. She holds a Masters in Inclusive Design from University of Salford, UK. and a Bachelor of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa.
Saskia van Kampen
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Saskia van Kampen (MDes) is an Associate Professor and program coordinator of the Visual Communication Design program in the School of Design at San Francisco State University in California. She is a former faculty member in the Graphic design program at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Her research orbits critical design pedagogy, creative practice as protest, and her creative practice involves working with designed artifacts using handcraft methods of making. Her work has been disseminated internationally through academic conferences, articles, and art exhibits. She has recently developed an interdisciplinary course on climate change activism which she is co-teaching with an environmental studies expert. Her pedagogy focuses on empowering the next generation of designers to take on the challenges of social and environmental issues.