Talks + Publications + Recognition

Thought leadership:

Guest lecture – Experiential Futures, Graduate Studies, OCAD University
(Toronto, U.S., 2019)

Guest lecture – Sharing my practice, Graduate students and faculty, Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology
(Bangalore, India, 2019)

University of Michigan, Design Salon
(Detroit, U.S., 2017)

• Private two day design salon to discuss the intersection of “Design + Happiness + Futures”

Conferences:

National Women’s Studies Association Conference
(Atlanta, U.S., 2018)

• Roundtable Panelist- A Dialogue on NGO-Academic Collaborations: Pitfalls and Promising Steps Forward

Stanford Medicine X Healthcare Conference 
(Palo Alto, U.S., 2018)

• Workshop Co-facilitator – System mapping to visualize patient experience for visual insight translation

Design-Develop-Transform Conference
(Brussels/Antwerp, Belgium, 2017)

• Talk: “Going analogue: auto-ethnographic insights on being steeped in analogue (while doing futures work)”

Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium
(Toronto, Canada, 2016)

• “Made-In-Canada system ecology: Towards a more sustainable garment industry”

International Fashion Incubators Global Conference
(Virtual, 2013)

• Talk: “Fashion Incubator’s: the next well positioned social catalysts?”

Design Installations:

EPIC  Ethnography Conference
(Hawaii, U.S., 2018)

The Gardiner Museum
(Toronto, Canada, 2018)

• Reclaiming Artefacts

Nuit Blanche Toronto
(Toronto, Canada, 2017)

• Nature Deficit Disorder Clinic 2067

IIDEX Canada
(Toronto, Canada, 2015)

• NaturePod

Publications:

NaturePod featured in the book ‘Discursive Design’ by Bruce and Stephanie Tharp, published by MIT Press (March 2019)

Current Oncology: A Canadian Cancer Research Journal (April 2017)

Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD5) 2016 Symposium

Globe & Mail (National Canadian newspaper)- Co-authored article (2016)

Media:

Project: Reclaiming Artifacts

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) – Radio Interview (2018)

CBC Online Article (2018)

The Gardiner Museum Blog (2018)

Project: NDD Clinic 2067

Buzzfeed Feature (#2 of 20 top installations) (2017)

Toronto Guardian (10 Nuit Blanche Hot spots list)  (2017)

Project: Policy Innovation- Canadian Immigration- Spousal Sponsorship Visa Program

Toronto Star feature – a collaboration with Canadian Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship  (2017)

Project: FEM-LED

FemRadio Interview (2016)

Co-author Globe & Mail Opinion Article (2016)

Project: NaturePod

Business Insider (2016)

Treehugger feature  (2016)

Project: NDD Clinic 2040

The Economist- project acknowledgement (2015)

Awards:

Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioner Main Award (2019)

So(cial) Good Award – Designer Driven Projects- NDD Clinic (2018)