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Transcribe to Survive

A tabletop escape room for Genome BC's Geneskool program that aids in teaching high school life sciences across classrooms in British Columbia. The Challenge How might we design a lightweight, portable, and interactive tabletop escape room that aids in educating a group …
2025
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4 min read
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Tales of Moments

This project shows the culmination of my Master’s research findings through a modular lithophane lamp comprised of everyday scenarios in two very different contexts. It showcases Filipino and Vancouver contexts through everyday interactions with people and objects, contextualizing the cultural …
2024
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3 min read
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Shifting Patterns

This project shows my Master’s thesis research’s conclusions on interactions with objects through an exploration of 3D printed zoetropes that puts emphasis to the varying factors affecting one’s perception. With the variation of form, pattern, rotation speed, camera shutter speed, …
2024
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2 min read
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Nimble Animation Stand

A simple and open-access digital fabrication design for a portable multiplane animation stand. This project with the Animate Materials Workshop called for designing, testing, and fabricating a portable multiplane animation stand for artists with any level of animation experience to …
2023
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3 min read
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Traces: Invisible Imprints

This project sought to investigate whether we are directed to handle objects in ways dictated by how they are structured through the use of hand dishwashing with invisible ink as an activity of research. The Challenge As someone who lived …
2023
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4 min read
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Strange Familiarity

This project aimed at comparing the perceptible affordance of everyday familiar objects most of us have been accustomed to and primed for a certain way of opening simply just by looking at it and the tactile interaction as well as …
2023
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5 min read
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Social Coordination

As part of my master’s research, I conducted a three-day ethnographic observation in front of the bus 84 stop at VCC-Clark station in order to observe people’s behaviours and interactions in that specific place. I looked at how they paced …
2023
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5 min read
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Stuck in the Middle

This project is a data visualization of one’s planned schedule in contrast to their lived time while working in one time zone and living in another and was conducted during the start of my MDes program’s first semester while I …
2022
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2 min read
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Whitespace

This project is my bachelor’s thesis on investigating self-directed learning behaviours of university students in the Philippines during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and the design of a tactile time visualization tool to help address issues of burnout. Read full Bachelor's …
2022
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10 min read
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reBIRTH

A woman-centered birthing tool that helps accommodate a variety of birthing positions for a positive birthing experience. This project is a group entry for the James Dyson Award in 2020 where it won as the Philippine National Winner. Read JDA …
2020
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5 min read

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