Chilliwack is more than just streets and buildings.
This project studies how an environment and daily life overlap to shape a city over time. Through photos, videos, and maps, it explores the place many call home.
01 Photos
These photographs document how people move through and occupy space, revealing that Chilliwack is shaped less by its parameters and more by its daily patterns of use by a diverse range of people, animals, and things.
02 Video
The video shifts away from interaction and instead observes Chilliwack as an environment. It reveals how infrastructure and development directly shape the experience of place.
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03 Maps
These maps transform lived experience into measurable visuals. By assigning colour to infrastructure, social activity, and environmental elements, the city becomes readable as density reveals how areas of Chilliwack are developing.
04 Exhibition
This research was developed with the goal of being a display as a part of a larger physical spatial exhibition. The project was translated into a spatial installation that viewers could move around and experience in person. The exhibition brought together the maps, video, and photography into one environment, allowing the study of Chilliwack to be seen and felt at full scale.
This project was conducted on the traditional and unceded territory of the Stó:lō peoples.