R E S E A R C H ・ I N T E R E S T S

  1. Body-Place and Phenomenology

  2. Body Memory and Liminality

  3. Psychogeography* and the concept of Flâneur

    • Navigating urban space as an act of artistic expression; re-imagining and being re-imagined

    *Branch of psychological speculation or investigation which is concerned with the effects on the psyche of the geographical environment. (Oxford English Dictionary)

  4. The Aesthetic of Atmospheres . Spatial Rhythms . Liminal Spaces

    • Aesthetic principles: スペース /Supesu and 間/Ma

    • A corporeal response to architecture and urban design

P E D A G O G I C A L P R A C T I C E

As an educator, my primary focus is to critically engage and research on the ‘effects of design on living-learning capacities’, specifically on the materials, functionality and conventions of educational spaces for young children. I examine both concrete and abstract aspects of generic interior-spatial design and co-designed pedagogical atmospheres in this context: physical flow and circumstantial constraints or opportunities; positive and negative spaces, ambient emotional cues, linguistics of objects and interior elements: surface/object textures and colours, light and sound (acoustics, ‘noise’), etc. What emerges from this approach is an holistic understanding of a living-learning environment, one characterized by the interdependence of elements in a physical space, the people, other-than-human, and the curriculum.

A R T I S T I C I N Q U I R Y and R E S E A R C H P R O J E C T S

The Lived Body: Inside-Outside and The Flesh of Memory. Art-based Research (BC, Ongoing)

Relational Aesthetics: ‘Space is not Empty’ (aesthetic principle Supesu) - Absence of Toys. (UBC Childcare Services, 2021 - Present)

Spatial Rhythms: Holistic approach to designing a living-learning (educational) space. (UBC Childcare Services, 2016 - Present)

Encounters with Places: Dwellings. Artistic Inquiry (Windsor Elementary, 2015) - funded by ArtStarts

Interactions: Negotiating Bodies and Materials. Artistic Inquiry (Brentwood Elementary, 2014) - funded by ArtStarts

Curriculum Room: Exploratory installation studio for educators and child care centres. Artistic and Design Inquiry (Westcoast CCRRC, 2009 - 2012) - funded by Westcoast CCRRC

L E C T U R E S and S E M I N A R S

Conferences:

Capilano University, ECEBC, Heart of the Matter, Preschool Promenade, Wonder of Learning Exhibit

Child Care Resorce and Refferal Centres:

Westcoast Family Centres, Options Community Services, YMCA, Archway Community Services, Prince George CCRR, Sea to Sky

School Districts and Child Care Centers:

Burnaby School District, West Point Grey Academy, UBC Child Care Services, YMCA, YWCA, Private Child Care Centres, Japanese Hall

Post Secondary Institutions:

UBC Department of Education, Capilano University, Vancouver Community College, MTI Community College, BCIT

S E M I N A R T O P I C S

  • On Curriculum: Relational and Contemplative Pedagogy

  • Mentorship in Education: Reflections on Student-Educators’ Contemplative Inquiries

  • The Meaning of Language in Pedagogical Practice

  • Designing Responsive Educational Spaces: Supesu and MA

  • Spatial Pathology: Narratives of the Objects, The Sounds, and The Liminal Spaces

  • The Absence of Toys: Place, Body and Sensory Experience

  • Artistic Inquiry in Education: From Individual to Collective

  • Where the Ground Stood: An urban crisis - A personal reflection on collective experience of the urban development and the ecological crisis.

 
 

R E S I D E N C I E S

YellowHouse Art Centre, Galiano Island (forthcoming, 2025)

West Point Grey Academy, Vancouver SD (2012 - Ongoing)

Windsor Elementary, Burnaby SD (2015)

Brentwood Elementary, Burnaby SD (2014/15)

E X H I B I T I O N S

Performative Geometry : Grids and Geometric Abstraction, CSA Space, #5-2414 Main St. Vancouver, BC (2021)

Walls are Not Walls, Massy Gallery, 229 E Georgia St. Vancouver, BC (2019)

Encounters with Places: Dwellings, ArtStarts Gallery, Vancouver, BC (2014/15)

P U B L I C A T I O N S / links embedded

Nowhere in Memoriam. (2024). SFU Educational Review

MA - Within. (2022). BookLeaf Publishing

Place. (2013). Canadian Children, Vol.38 No.2