James Hallam

work

  • 2011

    Stantec and Emily Carr teamed up to enter the Living City Challenge together - a competition that wanted us to:

    • Imagine a truly sustainable future
    • Imagine a socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative civilization
    • Imagine what tomorrow might hold for humanity if we rise to meet the challenges of today

    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...

  • 2010

    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:

    • Research EV market using design research methods
    • Identify user based problem spaces and design opportunities
    • Apply findings by exploring one...
  • 2010

    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:

    • Arduino-based...

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