Katie Graham

Biography

Katie Graham joined the Bachelor of Media Production and Design (BMPD) faculty in the School of Journalism & Communications, Carleton University, Ottawa, in 2019. She teaches topics related to visual communications, digital media, photography, and storytelling.

Katie’s commitment to student engagement, community, and sense of belonging is evident in the various student-centred initiatives she has developed, including BMPD Storytellers, the Create-action, and Create-Collab. She has won multiple teaching awards, including the Teaching and Learning Services’ “Excellence in Blended and Online Teaching Award” in 2021 and the Faculty of Public Affairs’ “Teaching Excellence Award” in 2024.

Katie is an associate faculty member at Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS), a research lab that focuses on how advanced digital technologies and hybrid forms of representation reveal the invisible aspects of architecture. Before her appointment with BMPD, she led multiple digitally assisted storytelling projects at CIMS, using digital assets to create public outreach projects for the web, mobile, and virtual reality. These projects include Parliament: A Virtual Experience, which won a prix gémeaux in 2020.

Katie is the Digital Initiatives Advisor for the Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats, a non-profit organization that engages in thoughtful conversations regarding mindfulness in areas including storytelling and digital technology. With the organization, she has collaborated on various projects, such as the 2022 webinar series “Negotiating Digital Space in Culturally Significant Storytelling.”

Katie received her BAS (2008) and M.ARCH (2010) in architecture at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University. When she isn’t busy with her role as faculty, Katie continues to work on her PhD dissertation, focusing on virtual reality storytelling of space and architecture.

Selected publications

Graham K (2024). Forms of Discourse: An Exploration of Medium’s role in Storytelling through the Retellings of the Canadian Parliament Buildings and the Rehabilitation Project. “Adda: A Place for Conversations,” Issue 1: Mindful Conversations: Culture and Design.

Graham K, Pybus C, Arellano N, Doherty J, Chow, L, Grunt T, Fai S (2019). Defining Geometry Levels to Optimize BIM for VR: Insights from Traditional Architectural Media. “Technology | Architecture + Design Journal.”

Graham K, Chow, L, Fai S (2019). From BIM to VR: Defining a Level of Detail to Guide Virtual Reality Narratives. “Journal of Information Technology in Construction.”