I’m a strategic designer, craftswoman and farmer, sensing and creating my way towards systems change.

All of my work draws on an intrinsic motivation to empower one another and forge systems change for a more just and caring world. I’ve been lucky to develop educational programming around material reuse, food sovereignty and alter-economics; To design logistics for large-scale material recuperation and Community Supported Agriculture deliveries; And to offer facilitative leadership and action-oriented strategy in my collaborative work.

My strengths lie in my ability to sense, listen and connect as well as, in my affection for planning, strategizing, organizing and getting things done. I also rely on my dexterity in a great variety of artistic mediums which lends well to visual thinking in collaborative processes and creative problem solving.

CAMPUS MIL: THE ABUNDANCE OF AN URBAN VOID

Winter 2021.

The unfinished Campus Mil site, located in Montreal's Outremont neighbourhood, analyzed during its drawn-out construction phase is used as a case study. The site and its conditions is a pertinent demonstration of environmental and social benefits which arise in informal, non-prescriptive, and ambiguous urban spaces. The paper proposes more nuanced and dynamic perspectives on urban development in contrast to the increasing trend of commercialization and privatizaton in cities.

Three theoretical frameworks were selected to demonstrate the abundance that arose from the site: Interstitial Space, the Open City and Urban Commons.

This research paper is the result of an independent study undertaken as part of a Design Arts Bachelors at Concordia University.