Yule Heibel

Current

• Writer at Focus Magazine
• Board Member, Arts Advisory Council at Capital Regional District (CRD)

Past

• School Planning Council (SPC) and Parent Advisory Council (PAC) member at South Island Distance Education School
• Lecturer at Harvard University, Extension School
• Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dep’t. of Architecture

• Assistant Professor at Brown University, Dep’t. of History of Art & Architecture
• Teaching Fellow and Tutor at Harvard University, Dep’t. of History of Art and Architecture

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Education

• Harvard University
• The University of British Columbia

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Fine Art

Websites

• My Blog
• My Victoria City wiki

Yule Heibel’s Summary

An experienced writer, well-versed in both academic and popular media. Specializing in architecture and public art; place-making; creative cities; urbanism and urban design. Also experienced in writing about education (distributed learning; learning styles; gifted issues). Brings to the fore a synthetic view of technology, entrepreneurship, and the arts as producers of value. Lateral thinker able to synthesize across disciplines; skilled multitasker capable of absorbing new information rapidly. Engaging public speaker who uses visual material effectively. Consistently meets deadlines. Passionate about connecting people and ideas.

Yule Heibel’s Experience

• Writer

  Focus Magazine

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Newspapers industry)

  October 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  I write a regular feature for Focus Magazine, which is a monthly magazine of people, ideas and culture, published in Victoria British Columbia by Campbell Communications, Inc.

• Board Member, Arts Advisory Council

  Capital Regional District (CRD)

  (Government Agency; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years)

  I serve with 10 other volunteer board members who meet monthly on the Capital Regional District's Arts Advisory Council. We work with the CRD's Arts Development Office to adjudicate project and operating grant applications from Victoria-area arts groups of regional significance. Based on recommendations by the Arts Advisory Council, CRD Arts Development Office, together with the Arts Committee, awards project grants totalling ~$95,000 and operating grants totalling ~$2 million annually.

• School Planning Council (SPC) and Parent Advisory Council (PAC) member

  South Island Distance Education School

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  February 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 10 months)

  From February 2003 till November 2007, I worked with South Island Distance Education School (S.I.D.E.S.), British Columbia's leader in online distributed education, as a volunteer member of the School Planning Council and the Parent Advisory Council. In recent years, B.C. Education Ministry changes in funding of and access to e-learning, as well as revisions in high school graduation requirements made the creation of a flexible, student-centered and teacher-led program focused on active learning imperative to S.I.D.E.S.'s ongoing success. I am proud that I have been able to contribute to its development.

• Lecturer

  Harvard University, Extension School

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 5 months)

  * Designed and taught lecture courses in 19th & 20th centuries Art History
  * Guided students through the process of writing scholarly essays

• Assistant Professor

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dep’t. of Architecture

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 1992 — January 1997 (5 years 1 month)

  * Designed and taught lecture course in Modernism and Mass Culture; designed and taught a graduate student seminar in European Post-World War II Modernism; taught lecture courses in 19th century Art History as well as Introduction to Art History

• Assistant Professor

  Brown University, Dep’t. of History of Art & Architecture

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 1993 — May 1993 (5 months)

  * Designed and taught a lecture course as well as a graduate seminar in Modernism & Modernity and European Painting of the 1920s and 30s

• Teaching Fellow and Tutor

  Harvard University, Dep’t. of History of Art and Architecture

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 1987 — May 1989 (1 year 9 months)

  * Designed and taught undergraduate tutorial, Art of Europe Between the Wars;
  * Assisted in teaching undergraduate lecture sections: Romanticism; Abstraction; Beginnings of Modernism

Yule Heibel’s Education

• Harvard University

  PhD, Art & Architectural History, 1986 — 1991

  Prior to academic studies, the hands-on:
  Sculpture Studio, Pre-Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany, 1977-1980

• The University of British Columbia

  M.A., Art History, 1981 — 1986

  B.A.Hons. '83 (Fine Arts), M.A. '86 (Fine Arts)

Additional Information

Yule Heibel’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Victoria City wiki

Yule Heibel’s Interests:

E-learning, education, learning and cognitive styles; new media; design, architecture, urban planning, urbanism, urban infrastructure; evolutionary psychology, biophilia; painting, sculpture.

Yule Heibel’s Groups:

College Art Association, CRD Arts Advisory Council, Downtown Residents Association (Victoria)

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Yule Heibel’s Honors:

* Alternate, Postdoctoral Fellowship: Columbia University, New York, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
* Dissertation Fellowship: Social Science Research Council, New York, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies
* Doctoral Fellowship: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (initial award, plus two renewals)
* First Alternate, Merit Fellowship, Harvard University
* Award for Distinction in Teaching, Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning,
Harvard University
* Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia (awarded two years in a row)

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