ASHEVILLE, NC 4.30.20¾College La Cité, the largest French-language applied arts and technology college in Ontario, prides its educational program beyond knowing theory and practice, pushing for mastery that goes along with a trade – creativity, autonomy, adaptability and more. This also involves incorporating technologies of tomorrow for today’s students to better prepare them for the professional industry they are striving to enter.
For their new 360-degree immersive studio, ‘Excentricité’ located at their main campus in Ottawa, La Cité had a clear conceptual idea that came direct from Executive Director of the Office of Ideation and Creativity, Suzanne Gibault. She wanted the immersive experience to be total: not just visual, but also sound. Beyond simple surround, she envisioned a spatial dimension that placed the viewer/participant within the context of the environment in a real-world experience. In other words, “what you saw would relate directly to what you...
