Arts, Culture & Creativity

Art and creative practices expand the ways we think about the world and our place in it, enrich our lives, advance new forms of knowledge, and help us arrive at creative solutions to real-world problems.

By challenging dominant narratives and amplifying underrepresented voices, the arts serve as powerful tools for confronting systemic injustices and inspiring collective action. The arts are vehicles for collective memory, the formation of cultural identity, and imagining better futures.

Blurring the line between conventional research and creative practice, and drawing from a diverse urban and academic milieu, TMU researchers engage in creative scholarship and arts-based research methods to advance new theoretical paradigms and ways of thinking within and beyond the creative sectors in domains as diverse as healthcare, education, migration, environmental sustainability, emerging technologies, and cultural policy.

Using a range of methods of curation and creation, our SRC leaders are forging new practices and standards for academic, professional, business, and public audiences by creating avenues where all voices are heard and valued.