Educators on Educating - Maxe Fisher
Channel: Emily Carr University
Date: 11/03/2015

Associate Professor, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media
"The Classroom, Mobility, Technology and the Teaching Environment"
Maxe Fisher is an educator, industrial designer and artist. Maxe combines an expertise in industrial and multi-disciplinary design theory and studio teaching. Recently, Maxe was the Founding Programme Director of the Context+Culture specialization and is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University's School of Design, Wellington, New Zealand.
Currently, Maxe is a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Research at RSH at the Australian National University, Canberra. Maxe’s research examines the relationship between the aesthetics of experience, corporeal culture and our relationship to the technologies of making.
Her interest in this area developed over the course of a 25 year investigation into abandoned industry largely in Canada, while simultaneously involved in design for contemporary high-tech industry, specifically, the world’s first virtual reality helmet. These polarities are central to Maxe’s exploration of design, allowing her to interpret the silent continuity of culture as an expression of the meaning of things.
Educators on Educating is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design Teaching and Learning Centre video series on faculty talking about their approaches to pedagogy in the classroom, online and with incorporating new media and technologies in their practice. Filming began in August 2014 and will continue through to the end of the Spring semester in 2015. For more information please send an email to tlc@ecuad.ca