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<\/p>\nThe Emily Carr University of Art + Design has a long history in Vancouver. First opening in 1925 as the Vancouver School of Art, the institution changed over decades structurally, by its name and by its designation. The school\u2019s namesake is the famous artist and writer, Emily Carr, whose Modernist and Post-Impressionist artistic style captured scenes and landscapes of the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the 20th century. In 2008, the Province of British Columbia formally recognized the school\u2019s status as a full university, thus creating the name it is known by today. The university is still changing – the most recent change being their new campus on Great Northern Way in Vancouver\u2019s False Creek Flats neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
This transition to the False Creek Flats was quite recent in September 2017. Prior to this, Emily Carr occupied a large campus on Granville Island. Occupying the campus from 1980 onwards, the facilities were beginning to show their age and were forcing the university to come up with creative solutions as its enrolment numbers grew. Thus, the best option was to seek a new campus.<\/p>\n
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The intention of moving Emily Carr University of Art + Design to the Great Northern Way area of False Creek Flats is to bolster the creation of a renewed creative district<\/a>. A key aspect of this new creative district is The Centre for Digital Media (CDM)<\/a>, a collaboration between ECU, British Columbia Institute of Technology and the University of British Columbia. While some mid-rise buildings with artist lofts still remain, like the Artech<\/a>, Artworks<\/a> or Mainspace<\/a>, the new impetus to grow False Creek Flats has sought to incorporate the area’s artistic past. Adding to this, developers of mixed-use residential buildings are already incorporating facilities for artists and artisans in their new projects.<\/p>\n