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Hi, I'm Erik.

I am an industrial designer, educator, and researcher based in BC, Canada with a passion for developing a conscious awareness of our physical interactions and engagements with the world through the use of design. I am a big advocate of education and learning, especially through exploratory methods of embodied cognition.

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DESIGNER

I am an industrial designer with a focus on human factors design, tangible interactions, discursive design, and digital fabrication.

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EDUCATOR

I am an advocate of education, empowering the youth to appreciate the value of education through tangible real-world approaches.

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RESEARCHER

My research involves affordance-based design approaches to exploring embodied cognition principles, especially in design pedagogy.