Research creation · working notebook
Thinking Blue
This inquiry begins in thinking blue and seeks to find blue resonances across atmosphere, language, memory, and digital mediations. Blue appears in sky and water as gradients of light and depth—continuous phenomena produced through atmospheric scattering and relational perception. The inquiry thinks planetary blue together with digital and posthuman theory, tracing how blue becomes abstracted, permuted, and discretized as it moves and becomes digital. This project seeks to follow the continuous phenomena of blue and identify multimodal flight patterns across different registers: planetary blue; languaged blue; #0000ff; memory blue, blue stored in dreams and digital architectures, invisible blue, and sounded blue.
Thinking blue is both method and matter. Through fictopoeisis, a form of speculative theory writing, and arts-based digital inquiry, this project explores how the discreteness of blues moves across perception, language, and digital mediation shaping how skies and blue guitars might come to be.
Orbits of Blue · plates from the notebook
Current study · SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Holding pedagogy and AI systems in productive tension: Designing sociotechnical practices for AI-mediated learning
Generative AI now mediates a growing share of academic work, but its integration remains pedagogically opaque: students lean on unsanctioned tools outside institutional governance while universities invest in sanctioned ones that sit at the margins of coursework. The study calls this the sociotechnical integration gap, and asks how AI systems and pedagogy can be brought into a co-productive relation in graduate education.
It treats AI literacy not as a set of transferable skills but as a sociotechnical practice enacted through epistemic agency — the situated exercise of judgment, ethical deliberation, and responsible refusal in AI-mediated knowledge work. The site is UBC’s Master of Educational Technology programme, and the instrument is HelpMe, a course-embedded retrieval-augmented system whose interaction traces make patterns of use, verification and refusal visible as they happen.
