Systems Design

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Cultivate was my undergrad final project, and I had the pleasure of leading a multi-disciplinary student team including Theunis Snyman (ID), Sam Jiang (IxD) and Emily Neufeld (Sculpture). Cultivate evolved into a non-profit society, helping grow the connection between community building and food by creating opportunities for collaborative gardening on a neighbourhood scale by frowing food in orphaned spaces. Before closing the society in 2016, the Cultivate team built the Queensbury and Blueridge Sharing Gardens in North Vancouver, BC. Both gardens continue to thrive. 

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Welcome Home works as a three part initiative: a campaign, workbook and website, to better prepare family members and potential residents for the realities of long term care. Rather than conceptualizing older people as needing to be placed in a care home which implies passivity, Welcome Home encourages their involvement as active participants in their own health -making active choices, decisions and judgements about their new environment.

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The Commons @Public Libraries was featured on the DESIS research lab website for social innovation and sustainability. 

The Commons @Public Libraries is a communal, modifiable space in libraries that all members of the public can interact with or curate on any topic that interests them. It enables individuals to contribute directly to the content of the library, while providing a physical and virtual platform in which to engage in public discourse.

The Commons aims to tap into each person's interests and expertise to create shared learning experiences, while empowering both the individual and collective voice. It is about taking one person or group’s idea and seeing how we, as a community, can collectively expand upon it.

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The Tag Project was featured in the Spring 2013 edition of the Current Design Research Journal.

Design students were asked to collaborate with children with special learning needs to create an interactive textile-based artifact or system that would encourage sustainable practices within Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School. The resulting design would be gifted to KGMS and its students for implementation in their school.

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This is a new system of moving goods around the city of Vancouver by using the existing skytrain network as the primary means of transport. The container is the key to the entire system as it will be carried by the skytrain and received by secondary transport at various stations. These will be small electric and pedal powered vehicles which will pull and carry them to their final destinations. This system will run 100% free of fossil fuel dependence and will help Vancouver transition through and beyond peak oil while growing a strong, sustainable, and local economy.

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'eddit Exploded' is an analog representation of my grad project 'eddit'. This display is inspired by Gabriele Meldaikyte's “Multi-touch Gestures,” in an effort to helps articulate the framework to viewers. 3D materials and craft are used to communicate the nested layers of the 2D 'eddit' system. This method gives the viewer something tacit to consider while learning about the complex website framework (which layers 3D processes into the 2D world). Still in progress, 'eddit Exploded' is being expanded to communicate the multiple features of the system for display at the grad show in May.

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Local Interactive Trails is a website and systems design that encourages users to create and share their own urban walking experiences. Once a route is uploaded on the LIT website, the creator puts up queues in the form of stickers for both directional instructions and observational instructions. The system encourages users to explore and share their findings without using a mobile device once outside. Local Interactive Trails empowers pedestrians to reclaim public space and share their findings with other urban explorers.