Upcoming Events

Emerging Media Community of Practice

Stay tuned for details on the next Emerging Media Community of Practice meeting! For more information, visit the EMCoP website.

Technology-Enhanced Learning: Reimagining the traditional classrooms

The following session will share ongoing research in K-12 technology-enhanced classrooms. In particular, Melanie will share how she has taken her learnings to develop an online Master of Education program

Past Events

Ocean Literacy, Aquatic VR, and Captain Nemo: Re-imagining the Tale of Scientific Studies 

The Emerging Media Lab was excited to host Pierre Friquet, award winning digital experience designer, for a lecture on environmental educational technology on November 27th.

The Beauty of Tech-Art

Emerging Media Lab at UBC and Media Studies co-hosted two exciting events in one day: a lecture and a workshop with DesignFun, TeamLab, and the Tea Community!

Summer Showcase 2024

On Thursday, September 12th, UBC's Emerging Media Lab hosted their 2024 Summer Showcase, providing the UBC Community with an opportunity to learn more about our creative, technical, innovative, and inter-disciplinary Summer projects.

Spring Showcase 2024

An event showcasing 10 different projects from EML and MDIA 470 student teams to show you how interdisciplinary project-based learning ​(PjBL) with emerging technologies happen at UBC.

Summer Showcase 2023

EML celebrated the CUCCIO Collaboration award at our 2023 Summer Showcase, where we presented five projects using creative and emerging media and discussed the use of generative AI in post-secondary learning environments.

April 2023: Using AI Tools for Creative Process

Join the UBC Emerging Media Lab for a panel discussion organized by EMCoP on using AI tools for creative process!

Spring Showcase 2023

A hybrid event on EML’s projects and presentations from “Collaborative Prototyping”, as well as a panel discussion regarding "ChatGPT and Beyond: Generative AI in Instruction and Research", moderated by Dr. Patrick Pennefather and featuring EML’s team of Faculty in Residence.

February 2023 Emerging Media Community of Practice: How AI Tools such as ChatGPT are changing conversations in Higher Education

The Emerging Media Lab presents an online Zoom seminar about AI technologies (e.g., ChatGPT), and how they will affect our world going forward.

Games in Action Conference: November 4-5, 2022

On Friday, November 4th and Saturday, November 5th, UBC’s Chan Centre hosts the Games in Action conference: two days of panels, presentations and demos from professional game designers, academics, and gamers. Emerging Media Lab is partnering with Heart Projector, a Vancouver indie games art collective that produces pop-up arcade nights featuring unique games by diverse creators.

Summer Showcase 2022

Participate in live demos of the projects using emerging technologies at the Emerging Media Lab's Summer Showcase 2022.

Book a visit

You can visit EML for a tour or demo by yourself or in a group! Book a visit or email us at emergingmedia.lab@ubc.ca.