Pursuing a PhD degree

Supervisor(s): Trevor Barnes and Luke Bergmann

Degrees: B.S. Geography (Honors) & Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst; MA Geography from the University of British Columbia

Research Statement: 
I am a bricoleur-as-researcher, conducting transdisciplinary investigations into everyday urban geographies through both affective and technoscientific research practices. I craft multimodal artifacts which perform bricolage with the physical-conceptual fields of my encounter. My current research-creation concerns the interference of so-called ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ mapping practices and the entangled viscera of urban bodies. Specifically, I am interested in how pedestrian tracings of Google Maps––a locative technology which renders the city down from above as a fixed, determinate place––inform everyday navigations and thus the production of urban space. My theorizing will emerge through and inform the design of a destination-disoriented navigational application for otherwise performing “the city”.