By espousing the cost-recovery operations and social purpose mandate of cSPACE, the facility design and operations of the King Edward Arts Hub is managed with the intent to support our tenants, staff, and varied audiences while balancing the needs of the building. The 47,000 s.f. arts hub includes some 35 multi-disciplinary arts tenants (artists-makers, arts organizations, and cultural con, coworking space, cafe, meeting spaces, exhibition spaces, and a public park. A fully provisioned theatre with up to 138 seats can support cinema, performance, dance, conference, rehearsal and event uses.In addition to the design of placemaking interventions and managing the building mechanical system, my oversight includes operations staff, service contracts, in addition to the building’s 9kW photovoltaic array for onsite electrical generation, automated blinds for energy efficiency, and our operations as an Internet Service Provider to deliver fibre and telephone service at below market rates for our tenants.

Throughout the development of cSPACE King Edward Arts Hub, management expertise has been extended to support all aspects of the project: community engagement, feasibility studies, design development and construction processes, tenant curation, operations planning, budget modelling, funding and programming cultivation, promotional film and branding materials, to juried public art installations and general building operations. As a designer working across varied scales of artistic practice, stage designs, architecture and the urban realm - a holistic and comprehensive approach to adaptability is undertaken when considering the inner working of these facilities within their community contexts.

Stage Designer with designed projects across much of Canada including Alberta Theatre Projects, Theatre Calgary, Tarragon Theatre, Canstage, and the Shaw Festival. Most recent project includes, "Lucy Lost her Heart" at Theatre Junction in Calgary and Usine C in Montreal.Associate Set Designer on the Canadian Opera Company's production of Wagner's Ring Cycle. (2003-2006)

This course was developed in conjunction with Robert Kelly's Design Thinking for Innovation Graduate Program. This course intent was to apply creative design practice towards the spatial relationships of the environments we occupy. This highly participatory course aimed to develop understandings of spatial relationships through methods that promote awareness and engagement of space at the scale of the body, architecture and urban realm. As a central part of the course, participants engaged in embodied learning, reflective practice and collaborative exchange to develop subjective and conceptual understandings of the relational dimensions that inform space and placemaking practice. Participants were engaged in projects out in the Calgary community to explore spatial relationships at different scales with intent to inform innovative design solutions for the educational context. In an article entitled, “Imagining an Innovative Educational Place” insights from this course were relayed to a larger audience via Robert Kelly's book on, Creative Development: Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation and Invention.Schurig, Deeter. “Imagining an Innovative Educational Place.” Creative Development: Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation and Invention. Robert Kelly. Brush Education. 2016. 83-88. Print.

Sessional Course Director in stage design and mechanical drafting.