{"id":480,"date":"2026-07-02T14:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=480"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:48:49","slug":"chantal-trudel","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/people\/chantal-trudel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chantal Trudel"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chantal Trudel is Director and Associate Professor&nbsp;in&nbsp;Carleton University\u2019s School of Industrial Design. A graduate of Carleton\u2019s Bachelor of Industrial Design program, she also holds a Master of Science in Applied Ergonomics from the University of Nottingham. Her career reflects a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and the role of design in understanding people, processes and the environments in which they interact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trudel&#8217;s\u00a0expertise\u00a0spans industrial design, ergonomics, architecture, interior\u00a0design\u00a0and the planning and design of complex environments.\u00a0Early in her career, she conducted research for Teknion\u2019s Advanced Concepts group and worked as a product designer for Umbra.\u00a0Trudel later spent more than a decade working in architecture and interior design, including commercial interiors at B+H Architects and health-care design with Parkin Architects. Through her work on major health-care projects such as Winnipeg\u2019s Health Sciences Centre, Women and Newborn Hospital and the McGill University Health Network Glen Campus competition, she developed a particular interest in the relationship between built environments, products and user needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trudel\u2019s work has received national and international recognition, including a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence and a High Commendation from the International Academy for Design and Health.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":900,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Chantal","cu_people_last_name":"Trudel","cu_people_initials":"CT","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[47],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-480","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-co-chair-1"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Director and Associate Professor (School of Industrial Design); (Co-Chair Academic)","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/480\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}