Seminar Series

Drawing on the Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s Shoreline Adaptation Project, Vancouver’s Sea2City Design Challenge, and ongoing restoration efforts at the Maria and Hope Sloughs, the seminar will explore how design can support Indigenous priorities, revitalize ecological and cultural relationships, and reimagine adaptation as an act of reciprocity and responsibility.

Using the example of solar-driven carbon dioxide capture and conversion, this talk will explore this problem, and discuss novel, community-led implementation strategies for new technology deployment.

I propose strategies to restore acoustic biodiversity through urban design (from lower speed limits to sound-conscious green spaces) as a pathway to healthier, more equitable, and ecologically vibrant cities.

This talk explores how militarization, as a form of coercive power, contributes to global carbon emissions. Drawing on collaborative research, it examines the short- and long-term impacts of militarization on national emissions, its influence on the carbon intensity of economic growth, and its role in enabling Global North nations to outsource pollution to the Global South. The talk also highlights findings that show how even modest cuts to U.S. military spending could significantly reduce fossil fuel use by the Department of Defense.

This talk examines the EUDR’s initial reception in producer countries for one ‘forest risk commodity’ – rubber. By reviewing the chain of events through which rubber came to be prioritized, and comparing three sustainable rubber initiatives that served as precursors to the EUDR, it shows how power imbalances between producer and consumer countries are reproduced in emerging sustainable supply chain and corporate accountability initiatives.