Stantec and Emily Carr teamed up to enter the Living City Challenge together - a competition that wanted us to:
To do this, we were asked to concieve a vision of a city that would be truly living, and to present out concept in a series of...
Powertech is a subsidiary of BC Hydro, focused on testing services and technology innovation. During the summer of 2010, Sarah Bailey and I were able to work with them on a project focused on clean transportation technologies, such as electric vehicles and hydrogen fueling stations. The goals of the project were to:
The haptic harness grew out of an investigation into movement instruction. Our primary question was whether a person could learn to move entirely through haptic communication, or vibrations against the skin. We developed this as a conceptual project, and set ourselves the task of building a flexible harness that would easily place up to 16 haptic buzzers on any part of the body, in order the test the potential of our interface. Our final deliverable included:
The BC Children's Hospital Patient Tracking project gave us the opportunity to work directly with BCCH to create a proposal for a streamlines patient tracking system. To accomplish this we visited the facility, interviewed the staff and collected information about their current systems.
My contribution to the project was to research the potential uses of RFID tags in a patient authentication system. After learning about the technology and interviewing BCCH staff and Provincial...
VancouverGirl re-imagines fashion dolls by creating new products from local waste stream materials. We have three different sustainable strategies for creating value in fashion dolls: making new dolls from old ones, giving dolls makeovers to extend their life, and exhibiting unique designer doll outfits to inspire creativity.
Toy manufacturers hasten the end of life of their products through stylistic obsolescence, leaving a waste stream of durable but forgotten dolls. These can be...
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