Birthspace, light and embodied experience
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An international project, this SSHRC-funded Insight Development Grant aims to develop a knowledge mobilization hub to inform a paradigm shift for birth environment design, understood as an imperative of our time that will influence the health and wellbeing of countless women and their children, families, communities.
My collaborators are J. Davis Harte (US), Nicoletta Setola (Italy), and Elizabeth Newnham (Australia).This initiative is part of a larger transdisciplinary international project, a network of interest co-founded (w/ J. Davis Harte) –the Global Birth Environment Design Network – seeking to build a community committed to improving birth environment design across the globe.
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This book accompanied my doctoral dissertation as a distillation of key ideas, quotes, images, and process work. It presents the concepts developed within the thesis in a format that allows a visual and short form understanding of the larger practice-based research and its long-form discussion/presentation.
View ‘Light in the Reimagined Birth Environment: Process Book’
Publications:
Using a virtual platform for an asynchronous co-operative inquiry 2023
Color, light, and birth space design: An integrative review 2023
Disrupting the status quo to create the mindful birth space–spaces that ‘sing’! 2022
Spirituality and childbirth: An international virtual co–operative inquiry 2021
Global Birth Environment Design Network: Developing an International Collaborative Birth Environment Design Resource. 2020
Spirituality and childbirth: An international virtual co–operative inquiry 2020
The inappropriate birthing body and how the birth environment is implicated 2019
An Artistic Praxis: Phenomenological colour and embodied experience, 2017
Light and embodied experience in the reimagined birth environment 2017
Colour and Light
President, Colour Research Society of Canada (National/Regular Member of AIC)
Co-President, Colour Research Society of Canada (CRSC)
Member group of AIC: Association Internationale de Couleur/International Colour Association <www.aic-colour.org>
Publications:
Colour, Light & Environment: An Experiential Course 2022
An Artistic Praxis: Phenomenological colour and embodied experience 2017