Chantal Trudel
Director and Associate Professor (School of Industrial Design); (Co-Chair Academic)
Chantal Trudel is Director and Associate Professor in 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 School of Industrial Design. A graduate of 杏吧原创鈥檚 Bachelor of Industrial Design program, she also holds a Master of Science in Applied Ergonomics from the University of Nottingham. Her career reflects a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and the role of design in understanding people, processes and the environments in which they interact.
Trudel’s聽expertise聽spans industrial design, ergonomics, architecture, interior聽design聽and the planning and design of complex environments.聽Early in her career, she conducted research for Teknion鈥檚 Advanced Concepts group and worked as a product designer for Umbra.聽Trudel later spent more than a decade working in architecture and interior design, including commercial interiors at B+H Architects and health-care design with Parkin Architects. Through her work on major health-care projects such as Winnipeg鈥檚 Health Sciences Centre, Women and Newborn Hospital and the McGill University Health Network Glen Campus competition, she developed a particular interest in the relationship between built environments, products and user needs.聽
Trudel鈥檚 work has received national and international recognition, including a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence and a High Commendation from the International Academy for Design and Health.