Stories with photos from Luther Caverly
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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Flip Your Lids
You never know what you’ll find when you open the boxes of history. That was the starting point for a photo essay on some of the rare finds within the buildings on campus. The university’s archivists and collectors preserve diverse bits of history—from newspaper clippings to architectural projects—for study, for teaching, and for posterity. They may seem utterly ordinary but are often of invaluable assistance to scholars in research, storytelling and reflection.
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Bubble, Bubble, Debt’s a Trouble
An out-Rage-ous fist tap for the house lager at the campus pub brings a whiff of politics to every glass
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Fuel for School
Quick eats for on-the-go intellects range from vending-machine manna to table served treats. An overview of new nosh and standby favourites from your student days
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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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A Place to Roost
It has been a lounge, a coffee house, a bar and a cybercafé—no matter the guise, Rooster’s has been meet-up central for students wanting to decompress, study or start a movement. Charting the history of Carleton’s sometimes notorious, sometimes neglected undergraduate oasis
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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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Low-Flow Bro
Stuart Hickox wants to get inside your toilet to see if it’s leaking. It’s not glamourous work, but it makes a difference. Stop a leak here and there, and you’ll save some dough and some water. Get thousands to do the same, and it’s a movement with a message. Unpacking the mantra of Hickox’s non-profit eco org one change
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Parting Shots
Eager to step back from teaching and administrative work for a spell, these professors will get back into the thick of their research, pursuing intellectual passions and ways of bettering the world, as well as the mind. Before leaving on sabbatical, four academics let us into their offices to document their big-picture pursuits in words and tableaux
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