My Mission
For the past seven years in Canada since I moved from my home country Ecuador, I have dedicated my life to inquiry. Led by my curiosity and desire to learn, I have travelled across four continents experiencing food, language, and knowledge. The intense inspiration and wonder that I developed by witnessing these multiple worlds colliding in my life's journey cannot be described through words. Hence, my purpose is to create. I feel the need to collaborate with people from all kinds of walks of life and through our exchange, augment each other's knowledge and creativity.
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Modeling Street Tree Canopy
By optimising tree selection based on the ecological significance and climate suitability of the species, we simulate future tree-planting scenarios in low-canopy-cover neighbourhoods in Vancouver to maximize the total area of the city covered by tree canopy.
(MSc. Project, 2021–2023)
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Wellness Pod
A pilot project that will provide a space intentionally designed for the mental wellbeing of elementary school teachers in Vancouver. We hope to encapsulate the outside, indoors through principles of biophilic design. Our team is composed of landscape architects, civil engineers, aromatherapy and forest bathing researchers. As well as volunteers from the education sector, psychologists, neuroscientists. (Chapman & Innovation Grant Recipient, University of British Columbia, Summer 2023)
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Expedición Ecuador
A recollection of stories, traditions and knowledge from five sustainable development projects across the three in-land regions of Ecuador. Currently searching for partners and investors to create a documentary focused on the dreams and challenges in the hearts of small communities of small land-owners. (Summer 2022)