Co-design

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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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AllSet is a jacket designed for people suffering from Parkinson’s disease. This training wearable promotes the formation of new neural pathways for routine movements, in order to facilitate energy conservation. Symptoms of the disease are most often triggered or worsened by fatigue and stress, so reducing these factors makes daily activities easier. The jacket functions as a passive reminder system, promoting certain motions over others. For example, when swiping an access card, it is easier for someone with a limited range of motion to do so with his or her arm extended; however, the natural motion for swiping a card involves bending the elbow, which causes more strain on the arm muscles.

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Inspiring confidence in children through movement & play, this pediatric physiotherapy kit provides families with a way to bring the benefits of phsyiotherapy into their day to day lives.

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AllSet is a jacket designed for people suffering from Parkinson's disease. This training wearable promotes the formation of new neural pathways for routine movements, in order to facilitate energy conservation. Symptoms of the disease are most often triggered or worsened by fatigue and stress, so reducing these factors makes daily activities easier. The jacket functions as a passive reminder system, promoting certain motions over others. For example, when swiping an access card, it is easier for someone with a limited range of motion to do so with his or her arm extended; however, the natural motion for swiping a card involves bending the elbow, which causes more strain on the arm muscles.

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The 60 Degree home is a 160 square foot design which makes use of a new building technique that utilizes Cross Laminated Timber. The targeted user groups were students and recent immigrants- groups with lower income who had recently arrived in the community. We designed an affordable home in the context of a multiple-home arrangement which encourages community engagement and pride in one’s self and home.

The design process was comprised of iterative physical modeling with some user research as a driver. Field trips to different wood processing and modeling facilities informed our work, and weekly review sessions with our Professor and peers helped us to remain on track.

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Playces is a project that intends to nurture imaginative play in children through use of wood panels and found objects that serve as connectors.

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Specially designed joints to fix and assemble broken toys. This was a co design project between a grade one class at False Creek Elementary School (very close to Granville Island) and Emily Carr University. The goal was to create a solution for how children's toys can have a second and/or multiple lives.