Artist, Educator, Pub Quiz Host
It was an absolute pleasure to be invited the other day by artist Teresa Ascençao to participate in a “world cafe-style” conversation with her students at OCADU about their end of term projects. CoExistence Lab is a speculative design course Continue Reading …
The eightieth anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Japan, occasioned the mounting of Nuclear Topographies, at Artspace TMU, Toroonto Metropolitan University’s offsite, student-run gallery space. The photography exhibition brings together the work of Dr. Blake Fitzpatrick, and recent School Continue Reading …
Last week I returned from research trip to University College Dublin, and I am very excited to share with you everything I learned! In that spirit I’m happy to announce that I’ll be giving a slightly modified version of the Continue Reading …
Last week I was honoured to deliver a lecture to conclude my time as a visiting Craig Dobbin Legacy Scholar at University College Dublin (UCD). During this forty minute presentation I shared with my colleagues an overview of my doctoral Continue Reading …
It was truly an honour to be able to take my first-ever trip to the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, to participate in Learning Together: Connecting Researchers Examining Colonial Injustices and Inheritances at their Universities. Continue Reading …
This summer I was pleased to play a primary development and coordination role in the launch of CRISP: The Creative Research Intensive Summer Program. This program was developed by myself, in partnership with my Media and Design Innovation (MDI) PhD Continue Reading …
On August 23, 2025 Toronto officially inaugurated Sankofa Square, with the first-ever celebration of Sankofa Day! Timed to coincide the the UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, Sankofa Day, which also marks the Continue Reading …
It was quite the honour to visit Dr. Lena Morten’s UTSC Anthropology seminar Critical Urban Heritage: Making Place and Claiming Space in the City! We did a special adaptation of my Heritage Toronto walking tour on Creative Memory Activism and Continue Reading …
This weekend I had the incredible opportunity to present my research and research methods to friends and colleagues as part of a newly commissioned walking tour of Toronto’s underground PATH system. The tour was created as part of POPECULLEN Projects’ Continue Reading …
Happy to let you all know that I’ll be presenting next week at The 9th Annual Finnish Oral History Network Conference: Memory in Movement: Pace, Connection & Introspection at the University of Jyväskylä. I will be delivering a paper, entitled Continue Reading …