The Changelog

Design

Social Architect

Whether I earn the title and position in the Buckminster Fuller Institute or not, Community Builder & Systems Designer for the Co-Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is already an identity that I aspire to and that I am trying to live into.

Design

Mentoring with Designlab

Since August of 2018, I have been helping people who are actively seeking a shift in their careers as they learn user experience design. Designlab is training the next generation of designers.

Ecology

Philosophical Humour

“If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.” — Alfred North Whitehead

Culture

Excluded from Participating in Your World

This is the abuse of the power of the state to enforce the abuse of power of a tactical military police force to enforce an unlawful provincial court injunction in breach of Indigenous, Canadian, and international law.

Design

The Story of Design

At the heart of the human project is the story we tell ourselves about who we are.

Culture

Modern Dance

We dance because we are human. It is a rebellion against the conformity of our age to a belief that we exist to feed the machine.

Design

The Big Picture

We are concerned with the minutiae, especially as our roles within the process become much more specialized. My question has often been, who is thinking about the big picture?

Design

The Evolution of a Designer

As a designer, I have been adapting to the social, economic, political, and technological environment for fifty-one years.

Design

Cultural Evolution, Social Physics, and Metaphysical Design

The spiritual vision of the Bauhaus was a faith in people’s ability to transform society for good by breaking down divisions and working together toward a common purpose.

Ecology

The Butterfly Effect

A lecture at L’Abri Southborough by Peter Harris, co-founder of A Rocha International, an international Christian organization that engages communities in nature conservation.

Build

Contestants in a Suicidal Race

We thought that what we were building represented progress, when in fact it involved the active participation of vast populations to effectively enact a form of suicide.

Imagine

The Adjacent Possible

The phenomenon of coinciding discoveries or inventions without direct communication, coordination, or cooperation.

Design

Redesigning Education

Can we shift our focus from designing physical artifacts to designing living systems?

Imagine

A Prayer for the Earth

I haven’t prayed for a while because I was wondering who I was praying to. I wrote a liturgy for Gaia, the incarnated universe, the divine feminine, Mother Earth.

Imagine

A Legacy of Courage

In honour of Rachel Held Evans and as a testimony to her humour, insight, power, gentleness, and courage.

Design

Becoming Human

Becoming human is more than an individual desire. It is a collective aspiration. How can we become more human?

Imagine

Finding that Resilience

You have to be resilient if you want to produce your own art in Canada.

Build

Making the Switch

I retired my old blog and started up this new site created with Ghost and hosted on a new server on DigitalOcean.

Work

Builders Collective

Human-centred design involves a process of understanding what is most important and what we can do that will be the most effective in solving the challenges we face.

Ghost

Building a UX Design Portofolio

I have been exploring some ideas about how to build a user experience design portfolio with Ghost. This seemed like a good opportunity to explore the possibility of using Ghost as a static site generator to publish to Netlify.

Design

Motion Design for BLDRS Collective

Bringing people together can be the beginning of reflection, reconciliation, restoration, and rest. This was my first time working with Adobe After Effects.

Build

Minimum Viable Product

Showing the slide deck and the lean canvas prototype was key to having a conversation about an idea that resonated with a desire to do something about climate change.

Ghost

Publishing with Ghost

Several years ago, out of necessity, I built my own static site generator with XSLT. Ever since, I have been exploring static site generators and building sites on the JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup).

Imagine

Master World Builder

Last summer, Ezra Klein had one of his favourite conversations with N.K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth Trilogy.

Teaching

Teaching at the University of the Fraser Valley

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to teach at the University of the Fraser Valley as part of the Graphic + Digital Design program.