Instructor

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Sylvain Després obtained a Bachelor in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1995, an Interior Design diploma from La Cité collégiale in 1998 and more recently a Master's degree in Industrial Design at Carleton University in 2016. Sylvain has worked in the public and private sector in the field of office design, exhibit design, alternative offices, commercial and custom millwork. He has won several provincial and national awards for Interior Design excellence.

He is currently coordinator and professor in the new media arts program at la Cité (Arts numériques) where he teaches creative coding, video mapping and theory of art and design. His interests gravitate towards human centred design, social innovation, design thinking methods particularly within cultural contexts, interactive and immersive art, participatory design and creation as well as leveraging design and art as a means to bridge cross-cultural divides.