He is a Co-investigator with the Coastal Communities Project, a multi-year research initiative of UBC and allied communities along the coast of British Columbia.His research and teaching interest centers on the architect’s role as a mediator in debates communities engage in regarding their own development and change. This interest begins by focusing on the process of translating a wide variety of information sources into maps, narrative drawings, and other visual descriptions of “contested” landscapes and places, both natural and developed. Among other subjects, he has represented traditional ethnic practices, narrative accounts, iconic artifacts, physical and historical events, and economic and political structures.