In the 2015/2016 academic year, S.P.A.C.E. hosted and participated in twenty one events. The events were well attended with over 1,700 students, faculty and staff present and 750 students and faculty actively engaged in one or more projects. Most of these events related to this year’s theme: VISION(S). The events were highly varied and unique, the numbers and scope of the participants reaching across the disciplines, programs and departments, and included students, faculty, staff and members of the broader community. Some of the projects spanned a number of months; the students involved in both the artSPACE and SPACEcorp groups met on a regular basis throughout the entire academic year.

1. August 14– August 19, 2015: Welcome Week: The S.P.A.C.E. coordinators made presentations about S.P.A.C.E. to incoming students during the Welcome Week sessions.
2. August 2015: Discover S.P.A.C.E.: An information table was set up in the atrium during the day, followed by an evening social get together in Oliver’s. The evening event was attended by 20 First Year students.
3. September 2015: SPACE Get Together: The first meeting of the project groups, SPACEcorp and artSPACE. (62 students attended)
4. September to June 2016: SPACEcorp: 18 project groups, each with a student lead, met on a weekly basis; the majority of the leads did independent study and completed their CEs through SPACE. (60-70 students involved)
5. September to June 2016: Labstories: A virtual platform for video documentation for the SPACEcorp projects done in collaboration with students from Cinema-Communications and Media Arts. (12 students)
6. September to June 2016: Metafix Project: Students were involved with Research and Development with Metafix, an external partner interested in collaborating with students interested in engineering and innovation. (4 students)
7. September to June 2016: artSPACE: A core group of 16-20 students met on a regular basis with the focus on creating a number of interdisciplinary projects. (60 students involved in total)
8. September to June 2016: Reviewed: An interdisciplinary project involving visual artists and students from across the disciplines. (31 students involved)
9. January 2016: Broken Tele/Vision project: A collaboration between visual artists and writers. (30 students, faculty and alumni involved)
10. January 2016: The TransLuminal mural was permanently installed in the College.
11. January to April 2016: IceVisions: a large ice snow sculpture was created on the grounds of Dawson involving students from several departments and programs. (150 students)
12. January 2016: Dawson Open House: S.P.A.C.E. participated in Dawson’s Open House (interacted and provided information to 110-120 prospective students and parents of prospective students. 18 potential Dawson students signed up expressing a strong interest in participating in S.P.A.C.E. next year)
13. February 2016: Indigenous Resurgence in Media Arts: S.P.A.C.E. sponsored a panel discussion in collaboration with the First Peoples Initiative. (400 students attended)
14. February 2016: Morgan Kahentonni Phillips presented to an IS class in which students did research related to First Nations issues and concerns. (25 students)
15. February 2016: Webzine Publication: 20 new items were published on the S.P.A.C.E. webzine
16. April 2016: VISION(S) Exhibition: The S.P.A.C.E. annual exhibition took place in the Warren G. Flowers Gallery. The exhibition was accompanied by a print and virtual catalogue. In addition to 49 individual participants, this year the exhibition included a significant number of Installations involving more than two hundred students from classes and college wide projects. (And in addition approximately 200 attended the vernissage).
17. May 2016: Science Project Fair in Conrod’s: A component of this was a Comprehensive Examination independent study project, competitions and extracurricular projects. (20 S.P.A.C.E. students presented projects, 30 students brainstormed and participated in a learning activity related to the discovery of Gravitational Waves.
18. May 2016: S.P.A.C.E. ScienceFest talks: Students presented talks on their SPACEcorp projects in the CoLab and in ALC. (15 students gave talks over three sessions)
19. May 2016: Bettina Forget; artist, educator and researcher: S.P.A.C.E. sponsored plenary speaker for ScienceFest, presented on her work at the intersection of art and science. (96 people attended the presentation)
20. May 2016: Editorial Illustrations for Webzine: 34 graduating students from Illustration & Design illustrated articles from the S.P.A.C.E. webzine. This provided students with a chance to showcase their work in a professional manner and an experience that resembled that of a real world author/ illustrator assignment.
21. May 2016: Unveiling of 2015-2016 GL.TCH theme: A gathering of faculty took place to unveil the new theme and discover possible directions for next year. (16 faculty and staff attended)