Carleton University Magazine

Stories by Fateema Sayani (BJ/01)

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Cooking Up New Literature For the Post-Narrative Age

The art of storytelling can get lost in the digital age, where the restless intersecting of images, text, and flashy graphics can work wonders or simply add non-conceptual noise to an already crowded field. But the bright side to this distracting picture is the excitement of making road maps into a new storytelling world and inventing methods where none exist yet-that’s what the researchers inside The Future Cinema Lab are trying to do
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Tune In, Take a Trip

Matthew Edwards, BArch/08, MArch/11, wants you to tap in to sonic spaces. The intern architect was part of a group of electronic artists who created Polylectures, a city soundtrack for self-guided explorers
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Everybody’s Heard About the Bird

You may know of Carleton’s mascot, Rodney the Raven—he has been part of campus life for decades. But did you know that Rodney didn’t always fly solo?
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Breaking Down Walls

California architect Jennifer Luce is bringing a new kind of openness to the workplace. The cliché-busting creator (she proves that her unabashed, industrial style can also be warm and homey) has been putting her stamp on west coast buildings for 30 years. A comment on process, place and the new work-life balance
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Bound for Glory

Handmade books glow with a vintage varnish when cast against the sleek gadgetry of the information age
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End Note

Industrial designer manufactures discourse with his I Am Not Garbage chair
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