ALCHEMIST OF ANCESTRAL SERVICES
JACQUIE SHAW
"Hi, I'm Jacquie. I am a Filipinx-Bermudian design anthropologist and strategic futurist whose practice combines design, research, education, and consulting, My work is grounded in and supports critical explorations of design’s role and use in creating equitable futures."
QUICK INFORMATION
HERE'S A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THEIR PROFILE.

PRONOUNS
They / Them

IDENTITIES
Asian, Gender-queer, Non-binary, Disabled

LOCATION
K’emk’emelay (Vancouver, British Columbia)

LANGUAGE
English, French, ASL

EXPERTISE
Futurism, Research, Foresight Strategy, Anti-Racism, Decolonization

PAST WORK
Overseas Filipina Workers Analysis, Postage Stamps for Canada Post, Bookplate speculative interaction design
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
SOME REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD LOVE THEM
AS MUCH AS WE DO.
Jacquie Shaw (they/them) is a Future Ancestors Services, Alchemist of Ancestral Services. Their practice sprouts from critical explorations of design’s role and use in creating the future and combines design anthropology and strategic foresight. As a queer disabled Filipinx-Bermudian immigrant settler in what is currently Canada, their work orients towards inclusive, equitable, and liberatory futures, built by decolonial, feminist, design justice, and anti-oppressive learnings and practices.
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 Vancouver which occupies the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh).
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RESPECT
honour fluid office hours; honour mental health and disabilities

TIME ZONE
Pacific Standard Time