Transformative Design projects are ideas-based works, often collaborative and aimed at systems change.
Design Guide and Construction Standards: Renovations. Reference Guide for the Stewardship of Community Owned Scatter Home Properties (in progress). Neighbourhood Land Trust 2022-2023.
Ritualized Destruction: House of Carnage. Ongoing constructed ritual/performance exploring life, death and the destruction of ego. 2010-2023.
Yarns.world Prototype: Using Interactive Storytelling to Trace the Threads of Urban Connectivity. Ignite Research Grant, Car Martin, Principle Investator. George Brown College School of Design 2021-2022.
"Aljumaine Gayle and Car Martin: Quayside Futures". Desire Paths podcast episode produced by Luminato Arts Festival; Toronto 2021. (process imagery pictured left)
Twinplex, In collaboration with Maya Orzechowska. Interactive art piece exhibited at 'Seeking the Periphery' Paul H. Cocker gallery, Toronto 2021.
“Fashion and Design in the Age of Digital Surveillance”, M. Valverde & A. Flynn (Eds.) Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs; Lorimer Press, Toronto, 2020.
“Co-designing the Active City”, Conference Presentation, Ontario Association of Architects Annual Conference: Empowering Change, Quebec City, 2019 (On behalf of The Centre for Active Transportation)
“Walking in the Suburbs: Five Qualitative Tools for Mapping Low-density Environments”Workshop guide and online publication, The Centre for Active Transportation, 2018 (On behalf of The Centre for Active Transportation)
Active Neighbourhood Vision Documents: 2016-2019. Participatory design projects managed on behalf of The Centre for Active Transportation:
“County Road 21/Highland St., Haliburton”
“Stewart Street Neighbourhood, Peterborough”
“Donovan Neighbourhood, Sudbury”
“Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park, Toronto”
"Digital Junkyard: Experiments in Virtual Salvage" Exhibited at Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. Toronto Metropolitan University,Toronto, 2017.
“Designing for Environmental Justice”, Conference Presentation World Design Summit,Montreal, 2017
“Creating a Town Centre in a Tower Neighbourhood” Action-research Project in collaboration with Dr. Suzanne Jackson, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, 2017
“Experiential Mapping and Collaborative Urbanism,” Urban Ecologies Conference, Proceeding Journal & Paper Presentation, Toronto, 2015. (On behalf of The Centre for Active Transportation).
“Participatory Design” Conference Presentation, Livable Cities Conference, Vancouver, 2014 (On behalf of The Centre for Active Transportation).
"Behind Closed Doors" Masters Thesis Project. University of Washington, Seattle Washington, 2012.
"Household Regurgitation" Film photography documentation of garage sales in North America. University of Washington, Seattle Washington, 2008-2010.