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This morning, I toured a couple areas at the RARE Charitable Research Reserve with their lead conservationist, Dr. Mike McTavish, and scientific illustrator Michelle Parsons. Michelle and I were looking to better understand phragmites, an invasive species in Ontario. As it turns out, there are native phrag here too. I just received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for a project called Designing More-Than-Human Futures, and the first line of inquiry is to investigate phrag us

Since the end of May, I have been working with two interns (though I prefer to call them Visiting Scholars) from the MITACS Globalink Research program. These young scholars are students from abroad who have traveled to Canada to work with me at Laurier for the summer. They remain nameless and picture-less at the moment, as I haven't asked their permission to share details. But I wanted to start sharing some of the work we are doing together this summer. Very briefly, we are i

I've returned from the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) hosted by the University of Victoria, British Columbia (June 1-4; https://event.fourwaves.com/cagcarto2026/schedule). I presented a similar presentation as at ESAC, and I was hoping this conference would yield some feedback before I finish my article about research-creation and spaces of rest at RARE. The CAG conference is much bigger than ESAC, and so many kinds of geography are represe

Yesterday, I installed BryoDwellings (2 of 3 that exist) in their final resting place at Earthbound Gardens in Red Bay, Ontario. They were first exhibited last September at Deep Water Gallery in the group show GroundWorks (curated by Ann Marie Hadcock). Before creating BryoDwellings, I had been thinking a lot about the spaces we can design with and for non-humans. I’m also interested in rest (in all its definitions as a verb and a noun), and spaces of rest, and how rest + spa

This week, I had the opportunity to show "Suspended Ingredients for World Design", a piece I created for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) annual conference at l'Université de l'Ontario français (UOF) in Toronto. The piece hung in the North Gallery at George Brown from May 26-28, and was featured with the works of other artists in a show called From Crisis to Creativity. The art piece is a wall hanging measuring about 3' x 3', constructed from handknit ya