Jacquie Shaw
Jacquie Shaw is a strategic futurist, and design anthropologist, with a hybrid practice that combines design, research, education, and consulting, Their work is grounded in and supports critical explorations of design’s role and use in creating the future. Inspired by understanding their own lived experience as a Filipinx-Bermudian settler in what is currently Canada, their work orients towards inclusive, equitable, and liberatory futures informed by decolonial, feminist, respectful design, design justice, anti-oppressive oriented praxis. Jacquie holds a MDes in strategic foresight and innovation from OCAD University and a BDes in communication design from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. They are currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto.
Our conversation was recorded in Tkaranto, on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations.
This episode of Hopping the Fence contains the “d” slur, discussions of the carceral system and cannabis use.
Show Notes
Cop owned cannabis shop in Kensington
Ontario’s cannabis legalization
Tokyo Smoke near Gladstone Ave (ish)
Bodega Black-owned dispensary in Toronto
“As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” Donald Rumsfeld (not Rush Limbaugh)
Corner Gas Ending Theme “I don’t know the same things you don’t know”
“Do white people dominate the outdoors” a letter from MEC
“Portrait of a Lady With a Lap Dog” Rembrandt Van Rijn, c 1665, installed in Gallery 121 at the AGO
Podcast Recommendations
One Dish, One Mic “We’re Smarter”
One Dish One Mic Patreon
Canadaland #337 “1492 Land Back Lane”
Thanks for listening to Hopping the Fence a podcast dedicated to the fringes of the Canadian art scene.
If you have an artist you would like to hear interviewed, would like to correct / fact check a past episode or would like to chat feel free to send me a message on Instagram @hoppingthefence or by email rebeccaecasalino@gmail.com
Thanks to OCAD University for their financial support, my project supervisor Amish Morrell for his advice and guidance and Claudia Slogar Rick for all of her extra help. Original artwork for Hopping the Fence by Alex Gregory and original music by Jessica Price Eisner.