Education
Contact
kmah@laurentian.ca
Office: TE-218 - Downtown Sudbury Campus
705 675 1151 #7205
English
Kai Wood Mah is a design historian, licensed architect with l’Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ), professor, and co-founder of Afield (www.afield.ca). Mah’s architectural practice is interdisciplinary and grounded in site-specific investigations employing archives, fieldwork, social science methodologies, and research-creation. His work includes designing and building community centres and institutional spaces with Cree and Inuit communities in Northern Québec. Writings by Mah have appeared in Visual Studies, Children, Youth and Environments, and Public among other international peer-reviewed journals, as well as edited volumes like Depicting Canada’s Children and Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change.
| ongoing | Surviving a Massive Refugee Situation |
| ongoing | Democratic Early Childhood Development |
| ongoing | Dynamic Referrals for Newcomer Youth in Greater Toronto |
| ongoing | Housing Unaccompanied and Separated Refugee Minors in Toronto |
| forthcoming April 2023 | book_Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics |
| 2022 | peer-reviewed journal article_Transposing Afropolitan Mobilities |
| 2022 | peer-reviewed book chapter_Diffractive Drawing |
| 2019 | peer-reviewed journal article_Spatializing Curriulum |
| 2018 | peer-reviewed journal article_Economies of Humanitarian Architectural Practices |