Sola Olowo-Ake at Atlanthos Soft Launch Exhibition. The Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.
Jazz Groden-Gilchrist (Project Lead) & Sola Olowo-Ake (Project Researcher). Atlanthos: Youth-Driven Innovation through Afrofuturistic Storytelling by the Ethos Lab Griots, The Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
TEACHING & COURSE DEVELOPMENT
Ethọ́s Lab’s Griots Program (2023-2024)
Developed and facilitated teaching speculative storytelling afrofuturism course on the Atlanthos educational lore project for Grade 7-12 participating youth.
Developed an African Grounding Methodology for the Atlanthos Project.
Facilitated Museum site youth research in collaboration with Museum of Anthropology, UBC curator
Exhibition planning and execution
Ethọ́s Lab’s Atlanthos Box Program in select VSB Schools (2023)
Redeveloped and facilitated Ethos Lab’s afterschool storytelling and virtual reality program for Grade 5-6 & 8-9 in select schools in the Vancouver School Board.
Exhibition planning and execution
Research Support for students of the ‘Design for Regional Resilience’ Program at Emily Carr University (2022)
Facilitated research support for students in the Design for Regional Resilience Program (designed by the Shumka Centre & DESIS Lab) at Emily Carr University .
Weekly group and one on one tutorial for students
WORKSHOPS
‘tablenotable’ research project with Helene Day Fraser & Jihyun Park
Lead researcher and community engagement lead at Emily Carr University, where the project took place. [Project Archive]
2 Part Storytelling workshop for ‘Design for Regional Resilience’ Program at Emily Carr University (2022)
Developed and executed storytelling mapping and materiality workshops for participating students and organisations.
Conceptualised a methodology workbook for participating students and organisations.
The Writing Circle Project Creative Art 8 week Program for Youth at Delta Family Resources Centre (non-profit)
Facilitated an 8 week creative art and writing program with my collective- The Writing Circle Project, for youth in the Delta Family Resource Centre afterschool program
Guest Designer for Decolonizing Design’s Material Practices at Emily Carr University (2021 & 2022)
Developed and facilitated a 2 part workshop for Helene Day Fraser’s course, ‘Decolonising Design’s Material Practices’ at Emily Carr University. It explored using stories, positionality and embodiment to decolonise and re-think commonly used prototyping and production
Facilitated peer review sessions and presentation within the workshop for Industrial design students.
Sola Olowo-Ake, Jihyun Park & Helene Day Fraser (‘tablenotable’ Project Leads). Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Workshop 1 & 2 for Design for Regional Resilience Program. Shumka Centre x DESIS Lab. Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Design Researcher and Team Leader for ‘probes. for Plurality!’ at the Canadian Fashion Symposium (2022)
Team Leader and facilitator in collaboration with Helene Day Fraser for a group of fashion scholars on a project called ‘probes. for Plurality!’
‘Yorùbá storycharting as storytelling’ workshop for Transformative Storytelling for Social Justice at Emily Carr University (2021)
Developed and facilitated a workshop for Dr Cissie Fu’s class, ‘Transformative Story-telling for Social Justice’ at Emily Carr University.
‘On storylistening…’ 2020
Organised a Graduate students symposium for MFA and MDes students at Emily Carr University as part of a MITACS Research Assistant Grant.
Developed and facilitated a storylistening workshop as part of my design contribution to the symposium and the issues it was tackling.