2015 Playscape OCADU Art and Design Exhibition
445 Adelaide Street West M5V 1T1 Toronto, ON, Canada

Here is an introduction to one of our jurors of 2015 Playscape Call for Submission. We look forward to all your submissions!!! Sarah Tranum is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University. She works with students from across the various design disciplines at OCAD U, including Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Environmental Design, Advertising, Illustration, and Material Art & Design. Social innovation design is imbued within each of her courses as Sarah... encourages her students to think through the entire life cycle of their designs and consider the social, environmental and financial impacts of their work. In addition to her teaching practice, Sarah is the founder and director of TrickleUp Design Inc. As a social innovation designer and strategist, her goal is to use design and strategy as tools for creating positive social change, whether it’s in her own neighbourhood or on the other side of the globe. Sarah received a master’s degree in design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, where she majored in Policy Analysis & Management. She has worked as a microfinance practitioner in the U.S. and Canada assisting new and existing enterprises in business planning and obtaining access to capital. Sarah also completed the Institute without Boundaries program in Toronto, where she worked with a multidisciplinary team of designers to rethink the future of global housing design. She has lived and worked on both sides of the border and now calls Toronto, home.