{"id":1128,"date":"2017-10-05T13:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T17:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:20:12","slug":"cheryl-schramm-and-the-gather-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/2017\/cheryl-schramm-and-the-gather-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl Schramm and the Gather-Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cheryl Schramm and the Gather-Ring\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/our-stories\/story\/gather-ring\/?utm_source=faculty-staff-sept20-2017&amp;utm_campaign=06ea420120-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_04&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_ac3a09a51a-06ea420120-441437805\">Gather-Ring<\/a> is a unique indigenous-themed structure on Victoria Island, the Algonquin territory at the very heart of Ottawa. It was designed by Prof.&nbsp;Manuel B\u00e1ez in the Carleton School of Architecture, but Systems and Computer Engineering professor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/people\/schramm\/\">Cheryl Schramm<\/a> and students are also involved.&nbsp;Glass pendants dangle above the space and&nbsp; catch the light as the sun rises and sets. At night they are illuminated from beneath by LED strip lights, whose colours and sequences will be programmed by Carleton engineering students as part of a collaboration including Cheryl Schramm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe always talk about multidisciplinary work,\u201d says Schramm. \u201cIt\u2019s such a thrill to be doing this. This is the type of project I want my students to experience. It\u2019s public, it\u2019s creative and it brings an element of Indigenous culture to an engineering class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProfessional engineers are servants of the public,\u201d she adds, \u201cand this provides a way to talk about Indigenous issues and reconciliation with our students. It feels very real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gather-Ring is a unique indigenous-themed structure on Victoria Island, the Algonquin territory at the very heart of Ottawa. It was designed by Prof.&nbsp;Manuel B\u00e1ez in the Carleton School of Architecture, but Systems and Computer Engineering professor&nbsp;Cheryl Schramm and students are also involved.&nbsp;Glass pendants dangle above the space and&nbsp; catch the light as the sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}