Russell Taylor SFU Obituary: An online obituary on Sunday, September 1, 2024, announced the sudden death of Russell Taylor. However, his cause of death was not immediately mentioned.
According to Russell Taylor’s profile on SFU website, he has been teaching post-secondary design education since 1998, and was hired full time at Simon Fraser University in 2002, into his current full-time faculty position as University Lecturer. He was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by Simon Fraser University in 2013. He was also honored that year with The 10thth Anniversary Outstanding Faculty Award by the School of Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT), SFU. He annually teaches two undergraduate courses – IAT 233 and IAT 438.
He also established the italiaDesign Field in 2003 and the North Europe Field School in Design (dutchDesign), in 2011, and teaches one of the two field school in alternate years, as director, in conjunction with SFU International. He has operated a field school in Europe with SIAT’s outstanding students for 15 consecutive years. Over this time, he and his teams have interviewed, video recorded and shared over 400 interviews with the world’s leading designers and architects. Mr. Taylor has also established two international exchange programs; at Malmo University in 2002 and at the Politecnico di Milano, in 2003.
