material world
design//action//research
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The historic Donovan Neighbourhood is located in the Northern Ontario City of Greater Sudbury. In this project we developed a community vision for streets and public spaces that is reflective of diverse resident's voices and will serve as the foundation for a future Community Improvement Plan.
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Donovan Participatory Neighbourhood Vision//Toronto Centre for Active Transportation//Sudbury//2017
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As both a highway and a village main street, County Road 21 must maintain traffic flow while providing safe and inviting spaces for pedestrians and cyclists. This 20 year vision is based on a series of workshops with underrepresented groups and a design charette with local officials.
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County Road 21: Complete Streets Vision //Toronto Centre for Active Transportation//Haliburton Village//2017
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The digital junkyard is an experiment in virtual salvage. It is a repository of donated digital information that is used to generate real physical objects. Making use of the derelict bits of ideas, lines, code, vectors, patterns, curves that we all have cluttering up our hard drives, the digital junkyard seeks to mine the embodied intellectual energy stored in digital files.
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Digital Junkyard//DFZ Ryerson//Toronto//2017
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This action research project culminated in the creation of a temporary pavilion in Flemingdon Park, a mid-century tower apartment neighbourhood in Toronto. The approach sought to enhance community cohesiveness while testing co-design methods.
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Flemingdon Town Centre Project//Toronto Centre for Active Transportation//2016
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Spur Collective is a team led by Car Martin and Maéva Baudoin that creates quick, low cost installations in public space aimed at changing the way people view shared spaces and encouraging people to interact with each other in different ways. (Un)familiar was the inaugural installation.
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(Un)familiar//Spur Collective//Toronto//2016
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These custom wood cargo boxes can be seen delivering prepared meals around Toronto for Feast, a local food delivery company.
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Custom Cargo Box//Feast//Toronto//2016
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Secure Personal Access (SPA) is a community organization seeking to develop a model and facility for a unique homeless hygiene centre in Skid Row, Los Angeles. I worked with them to develop programming and concept designs for the partnerships and fundraising campaigns.
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Skid Row SPA//Secure Personal Access//Los Angeles//2015
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This plan seeks to insert a cohesive community-lead vision into the planned reconstruction of Bethune Street in Peterborough, Ontario. Bethune Street is under redevelopment for flood mitigation purposes. This plan ensures that the surface redesign of the street is informed by resident voices and ideas.
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Participatory Neighbourhood Vision//Toronto Centre for Active Transportation//Peterborough//2015
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This modular booth was designed to showcase an emerging toronto-based bicycle company, Simcoe Cycles. It was presented at the North American Bicycle Tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV.
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Bicycle Display//Simcoe Bicycles//Las Vegas//2015
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Developed through a community arts grant, this temporary tree-fort was constructed in the woods near Toronto Community Housing site, Villawayz. The project was inspired by a fort the kids had built on site that was torn down by the housing corporation. A custom modular building system allowed the kids to collaborate in building the structure.
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Villawayz Treefort//ArtStarts//Toronto//2014
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Through funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada's innovation strategies, this project explored community mapping, citizen science and unique outreach activities towards a neighbourhood portrait & plan. This plan provided local officials with a robust set of prioirites towards improving streets and public spaces in tower neighbourhoods.
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Thorncliffe & Flemingdon Active Neighbourhood Plan //Toronto Centre for Active Transportation//Toronto//2014
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The Guerilla Park Bench was commissioned by a local business in Northeast Los Angeles to create seating in an adjacent park. The bench is designed to be collapsed and wheeled inside at night in order to avoid lengthy and costly permitting for permanent public amenities.
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Guerilla Park Bench//Los Angeles//2012
