Bryn Ludlow

brynludlow@ocadu.ca
Instructor, Faculty of Design
Faculty of Design
Health
Technology
Art
Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
Body Mapping
Digital Storytelling
Video Elicitation

Bryn Ludlow, Ph.D. is a woman of colour with ancestral roots from apartheid South Africa. Bryn’s artistic, research, and pedagogical practice centre around the following objectives: ensuring equitable access to digital technology, improving digital literacy for, and with underrepresented populations in community-based participatory research and practice, and creating meaningful and memorable arts-based ambient experiences that enhance quality of life for creative producers and the public. Currently, Bryn is developing a series of mobile, immersive, Augmented Reality (AR) experiences for mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to support people with resocialization after isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2020–2022 she produced an online, interactive ballet in memory of George Floyd that employs scenographic principles with AI-generated imagery, and digital storytelling. Bryn is currently a Sessional Instructor in the School of Graduate Studies at OCAD University.

Bryn’s doctoral research at York University (October 2022), “Multidisciplinary, and international perspectives on digital stories by youth formerly in foster care in Canada” combined a study of digital production techniques, reflexive praxis, and storytelling facilitation strategies with insights into how researchers can collaborate to improve support for various stakeholders. Bryn completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at OCAD University (2010) in Integrated Media for which she received the Sir Edmund Walker Award for Proficiency in Integrated Media, and a Master of Arts at McMaster University (2012) in Health and Aging. In her Master’s program she explored the use of the arts-based method, “body mapping” with geriatric inpatients receiving daily haemodialysis for End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. For this work, she received the McMaster University Master of Arts thesis award (2012).

To support an interest in combining a critical lens on design, health, equity, and social justice, Bryn completed a graduate-level certificate in Health Equity and Diversity (2017–2019) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, in-partnership with the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Office of Continuing Professional Development, and a graduate certificate in Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation at York University (2020). In fall 2023, Bryn was recognized with a teaching award at the School of Graduate Studies, OCAD University. In December 2006, Bryn founded the Canadian Artists Against Sexual Assault” (CAASA), which now exists as an online resource directory for survivors and secondary survivors of sexual assault. Since launching in 2006 the site has had over 1 million visitors (https://caasa-accas.igloocommunities.com).