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May 20, 2008
Open House
The countdown is on for SFU's Open House 2008 on Saturday, May 31 from 12noon to 4:30, rain or shine, at the Burnaby campus. The university will showcase hundreds of exhibits, interactive displays, lab demonstrations, performances and presentations.
Here are a few:
Fun eats & treats
Liquid nitrogen ice cream – that’s just a taste of the interactive presentations to be found at SFU’s Open House. Visitors can make a milkshake using pedal-power at the bicycle blender station and visit the top 10 earth-friendly tips table. Cotton candy and popcorn will be abundant at the carnival at Convocation Mall.
Interacting with technology
Meet E2, an immersive and interactive building model. The E2 real estate project is for those who want to buy a condo in a new development but can't be there to view the showroom suite. Press a touch-activated window on E2 to view the unit's architecture and design on a computer screen. Photos are available.
Visit the ultimate reality - enter a mixed-reality environment and experience digital projects and spaces in the physical world. Explore the prototyping process from initial concept to modelling and creating manuals. Create and manipulate digital faces with specialized software. Play a video game that strives to help the homeless.
Making a difference for children
SFU child psychiatrist Charlotte Waddell is one of several faculty who will be on hand during Open House to share their research and expertise. Waddell, who heads the Children’s Health Policy Research Centre at SFU’s Vancouver campus, specializes in the development of children’s health policy. She’ll give an informative talk on how investments in children's mental health are among the most important investments that society can make.
Fiona Burrows, PAMR, 778.782.3928, cell: 604.812.9949
Documentary Divas
Two leading Canadian documentary artists will discuss “The state of the art of documentary” at a public lecture to be held at 8 pm on Sunday, May 25 at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. in Vancouver; tickets available through www.vifc.org. Genie-award winner Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes) and Academy Award-nominee Connie Field (Freedom On My Mind) will be in town to mentor 12 talented Canadian filmmakers during The Art of Documentary, a four-day intensive workshop to be held in Vancouver May 23-26 and sponsored by SFU’s Praxis Centre for Screenwriters and the National Film Board.
Michel Boucher/Patricia Gruben, 778.782.7880, praxis@sfu.ca
The countdown is on for SFU's Open House 2008 on Saturday, May 31 from 12noon to 4:30, rain or shine, at the Burnaby campus. The university will showcase hundreds of exhibits, interactive displays, lab demonstrations, performances and presentations.
Here are a few:
Fun eats & treats
Liquid nitrogen ice cream – that’s just a taste of the interactive presentations to be found at SFU’s Open House. Visitors can make a milkshake using pedal-power at the bicycle blender station and visit the top 10 earth-friendly tips table. Cotton candy and popcorn will be abundant at the carnival at Convocation Mall.
Interacting with technology
Meet E2, an immersive and interactive building model. The E2 real estate project is for those who want to buy a condo in a new development but can't be there to view the showroom suite. Press a touch-activated window on E2 to view the unit's architecture and design on a computer screen. Photos are available.
Visit the ultimate reality - enter a mixed-reality environment and experience digital projects and spaces in the physical world. Explore the prototyping process from initial concept to modelling and creating manuals. Create and manipulate digital faces with specialized software. Play a video game that strives to help the homeless.
Making a difference for children
SFU child psychiatrist Charlotte Waddell is one of several faculty who will be on hand during Open House to share their research and expertise. Waddell, who heads the Children’s Health Policy Research Centre at SFU’s Vancouver campus, specializes in the development of children’s health policy. She’ll give an informative talk on how investments in children's mental health are among the most important investments that society can make.
Fiona Burrows, PAMR, 778.782.3928, cell: 604.812.9949
Documentary Divas
Two leading Canadian documentary artists will discuss “The state of the art of documentary” at a public lecture to be held at 8 pm on Sunday, May 25 at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. in Vancouver; tickets available through www.vifc.org. Genie-award winner Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes) and Academy Award-nominee Connie Field (Freedom On My Mind) will be in town to mentor 12 talented Canadian filmmakers during The Art of Documentary, a four-day intensive workshop to be held in Vancouver May 23-26 and sponsored by SFU’s Praxis Centre for Screenwriters and the National Film Board.
Michel Boucher/Patricia Gruben, 778.782.7880, praxis@sfu.ca