Research interests:
- The intersection of climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainability
- Sustainable buildings and urban design
- Transformative societal change at the urban scale
- Sustainable built environment performance evaluation – monitoring, and design of evaluation systems, including a focus on the behavioural interface: building/inhabitant hybrids
- The potential to create processes and activities that are net positive in biophysical and human terms at the building or urban scale
- Tools and processes for community engagement – the focus here is on using backcasting and scenario analysis techniques to engage citizens in exploring sustainable futures
- Creating partnerships for sustainability with non-academic partners
- The intersection of art and scenario analysis in interactive participatory processes
- The role of the university as living lab and agent of change for sustainability
- Generally, the intersection of sustainability, social and technological change, behaviour change, and community engagement processes.
Here is a brief video overview of my research activities as of Sept, 2020: https://play.library.utoronto.ca/ae618b16359be9c3aa3750b56314f44a