Social Practice
My work is interdisciplinary, and engages social and system theory, observing how bodies and environments co-shape one another, the grounding logic of my access-design methods.
Following a continuous line from early childhood through present civic-scale work, many of my earliest notes were unknowingly boxed away, returned to me much later in adult life.
Revisiting the stored sketches of childhood, I was presented with the same questions my practice still asks:
How can disability-led survival co-form environmental infrastructure?
This multi-modal practice links lived experience, digital connection, relational care, and material research, mapping how private survival methods can be externalized into shared systems, public space, and design. My work transposes through technoculture, ecological systems, disability theory, and civic infrastructure, observing how bodies adapt to and reshape the built world.
Early records resurface throughout my civic-scale access-design projects, forming a throughline, the result is a social practice that treats access not as accommodation, but as an evolving ecological system shaped by lived experience, constraint, and design.
Arm Wrestle Award, 1995
Provisional Structures,
Vancouver Art Gallery, 2022
City of Vancouver Civic Installation Project:
East Hastings, Nanaimo & Commercial Drive,
City of Vancouver, 2021
↳ for more social practice see: Civic Access Design