Pursuing a PhD degree

Research Areas: Knowledge, Ideas, Practices; Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS; Urban Everyday; Research-creation

Supervisors: Trevor Barnes and Luke Bergmann

Committee Member: Priti Narayan

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

Entry Date: 2024

Research Statement: 

I am interested in how ubiquitous use of digital navigational applications is reshaping the urban everyday. In what ways does habitual reference to Cartesian configurations of the city influence how urban inhabitants navigate and imagine their surroundings, and, in turn, cultivate spatial awareness? What is the significance of Google Maps increasingly directing our everyday spatial practices and thus the production of urban space? My research-creation will think through the speculative design and digital construction of a counterhegemonic wayfinding practice and navigational application for destination-disoriented discovery of Vancouver.