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Strategic Facilitator & Creative Leader | Principal, JVS Consulting Inc. | Former Chief of Staff, Squamish Nation | Former President, ICoD

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Proud to be working with James Xwalacktun Harry, and to share his work on stage in Beijing this week as an example of why the artist belongs at the beginning of a design project, not at the end.

Intention versus perception.
Invitation versus appropriation.

Keynote: Before the First Sketch. Chair of the International Jury, 3rd Global Sportswear Design Award, Tsinghua University Art Museum.

Thank you to Tsinghua University and ANTA Sports for a generous welcome.

#design #GSDA #Beijing #culturalheritage #CoastSalish @jamesharryart

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Birthday month finished on a high note. #birthdaymonthsarefun #borenfree #friendship #takeawalk #bruncheslunchesanddinners

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Last month in Shenzhen, I stood at a podium and said something I’ve been thinking about for years:

“The question is not whether we will transform — we know we will. The question is how high we dare to fly, and whether we dare to fly together.”

The room was full of design cities and communities from across the Asia-Pacific, and the world. The occasion was the World Designers Congress and Shenzhen Design Week, one of the more significant gatherings of global design leadership I’ve had the privilege of being part of.

I delivered the opening keynote and facilitated the UNESCO Cities of Design roundtable on how Asia-Pacific design cities can strengthen cooperation in the age of AI. The conversation was honest, urgent, and genuinely hopeful, exactly the kind of thinking our world needs right now.

Canada is a founding member of APEC. Being in that room, in Shenzhen, as APEC 2026 approaches — representing a country that helped build this Pacific partnership — felt like more than a professional milestone. It felt like a responsibility. One I don’t take lightly.

What struck me most wasn’t any single presentation or panel. It was the collective intelligence in that room. Around the table sat UNESCO Cities of Design from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and China — each carrying distinct cultural wisdom, each holding pieces of an answer that no single city possesses alone. We are not competing archives. We are complementary vocabularies.

And in the AI era, that matters more than ever. AI can generate form. It cannot generate meaning. That work, the work of deciding what should be made, and why, and for whom, still belongs entirely to us.

Grateful to the organizers of Shenzhen Design Week and the World Designers Congress for creating space where these conversations can happen at scale. And to the participants of the UNESCO roundtable, your perspectives made this one of the most substantive dialogues I’ve been part of in years.

Design integrates cities. And right now, cities need each other.

#ShenzhenDesignWeek #WorldDesignersCongress #UNESCOCitiesOfDesign #APEC

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The Truth of Moments

It’s not about the years in your life, it’s about the life in your years. #people #puppies #profligacy

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Calling all Lego lovers.. 👀✨

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#pacificcentral #station #vancouver #lego #viarail 🚉

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Happy to share this portrait of me by one of my favourite Vancouver photographers, Wayne Hoecherl (@wahpix / @ordealart). His ability to reveal both the nature and mystery in his subjects is something I have admired for years. I was truly honoured when he invited me to be part of his new portrait series, which features 52 remarkable individuals.

The exhibition opens tomorrow night — Friday, December 5 — from 7 to 10 PM at Room 46 Gallery. I’m looking forward to seeing all 52 portraits together and celebrating the vibrant community of visual artists who make this city such an inspiring place to live and create.

#Vancouver #Photography #Portraiture #WayneHoecherl #ArtCommunity

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2-8 June, Ljubljana.
What a week filled with inspiration and great friendship! It was an honor as the International Council of Design to cohost the European Design Festival in Ljubljana with @europeandesignawards and @fundacijabrumen

It was an amazing ICoD Regional Meeting and was so rewarding to get together with old friends, make new friends and enjoy this amazing city 💚🐲

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🚂 European Design Festival 2025 | Day 2 Timetable

Get ready for the day packed with creativity, exchange, and eccentricity! See you around!

🕒 Swipe to check the full timetable!
📅 Date: June 6, 2025

Organised by: @europeandesignawards @fundacijabrumen @theicod

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🎉 The full European Design Festival Ljubljana 2025 programme is here!
Get ready for 4 unforgettable days packed with over 30 inspiring events: from international lectures and temporary exhibitions to creative workshops and the prestigious European Design Awards gala!

✨ Whether you’re a design pro or just curious, there’s something for everyone.
🌍 Join a vibrant gathering of designers from across Europe, all in one of the continent’s most beautiful and welcoming cities.

🗓️ Ljubljana, 5–8 June 2025
🎫 Full Programme & Tickets: https://europeandesign.org/festivals/ljubljana-2025/

Eccentricity in Focus!

Organised by:
@europeandesign, @fundacijabrumen, @theicod

#EDA25 #Ljubljana25 #FundacijaBrumen #ICoD #EuropeanDesignFestival #EDAwards25 #DesignCulture #EuropeanDesign

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Meet the visionaries behind The Next Code of Conduct:

– Prof. Melike Tascioglu Vaughan: "Rethinking ICoD's Role Today"

– Prof. Lawrence Zeegen: “Gen Alpha – coming soon! What this might mean for design…”

– Iva Babaja: “Advocating Design Professionalism”

– Anssi Kähärä: “From Paper to Practice”

– Johnathon Strebly: “From Code of Conduct to Collective Action”

– Dr. Kyle Rath: “The Next Code of Conduct” (workshop)

– Jonas Liugaila: “Collecting Insight, Shaping Action”

– Qin Du: “From Dialogue to Direction”

Discover their stories and join the conversation on the future of design.

#ICoD #Ljubljana25 #DesignLeadership #EuropeanDesignFestival #TheNextCodeOfConduct #DesignEthics

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