I’m happy to be participating in the upcoming Planner’s Network Conference: PN 2019 Montreal conference: Resisting Displacement & Dispossession. The workshop takes place June 21-22 in multiple cities! You can register for the conference here. I’m going to be running a participative workshop called “What is a home?” “What is a home?” is a facilitated […]
I’m very excited to be sharing a place at the table with a group of super smart women – we are going to have a lively conversation about self-directed seniors housing at the conference “From the Ground up.” I’ll be sharing the stage with Janet Torge of Radical Resthomes and Isabelle Duclaud et Vouli Mamfredis […]
Concordia University’s Institute for Urban Futures is presenting a round-table discussion, and I’m lucky enough to participate! I’m going to be talking about (surprise! surprise!) cohousing! Specifically: Drawing Back to Leap Forward: Rebuilding the Village Together, the Case of Collaborative Housing “How can researchers from different disciplines and practices come together to diversify and critically […]
I’m going to be participating in the upcoming conference at Concordia University – taking place March 19-21 on both campuses of the university. You can check out the full conference schedule here. I’m going to be part of a panel addressing the issue of urban sprawl, that takes place on March 20th starting at 11h45 […]
IT IS POPULAR today to claim that polity is giving way to tribalism, whether of the partisan or lifestyle-politics variety, making a widely shared understanding of the challenges we face, and the possible solutions to them, feel out of reach. In such a situation it would seem foolhardy to try to invite closed-up people into […]
The idea that technology will fix complex and systemic problems like climate change, poverty, the housing crisis or health care is simplistic to say the least. We need a radical shift in how we live, and designing for environmental and social sustainability cannot simply be about applying new technologies to our existing models of living. We need […]
I was very honored to be asked to talk at the most recent Chancellor’s Builders and Friends Dinner on October 25, 2018. I was asked to speak about my research into cohousing and it’s relationship to the concept of smart cities. It’s just 3 mins long, so as a person who is, despite my best […]
I’ve joined the 500 Communities Program, run by Cohousing Solutions. That means I’m joining a growing network of cohousing practitioners who are learning from the most experienced cohousing consultants in North America. This means that people who are in Eastern Canada who are looking to get help from the best… I can help you! We […]
In Act II of An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, there is a line that states “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” Wilde is being snarky, yet there is a certain truth to what he wrote as it relates to […]
This article first appeared in Communities: Eco-Building, (Summer 2018); for further information on Communities: ic.org/communities-magazine-home Eco-Design for Behavior Change: Sustainability is people The notion that technological innovations will save the day as it relates to environmental problems such as climate change and “the Great Acceleration” seems simplistic to me, to say the least, and dangerous when we consider the […]