Hi! I'm Cole, a 21-year-old civil engineering student at Polytechnique Montréal, one of Canada's top engineering universities. I'm passionate about transportation planning, technology, urbanism, and LEGOs. These interests often intersect with wayfinding, maps, diagrams, user experience, and design—areas that inspire many of my projects and fuel my creativity.

I am born in Winnipeg and had spent a few years living in St. John's, Newfoundland. In these places, my parents owned a car, and we were frustrated of it. When we moved finally to Montreal, I've been living here since 2014, we had decided to not own a car, and it changed everything. This is when I finally realized how poorly cities are designed, and how much of our problems (climate change, loneliness epidemic, housing crisis, etc.) are related to how society lays out cities.

Therefore, I had set myself up on a path to change this, especially in North America, and change the way that cities are planned and designed. Having been able to live without a car, has made me wonder how could more people live the same way I have for years and finally find true freedom, which is living without a car, and not being burdened by the endless car payments, maintenance fees, accidents, fuel costs, etc.

Running around Montreal also made me passionate about urbanism. Seeing how the city is formed during my dozen or so kilometers that I travel each time. It allowed me to look around, and see how the city was laid out, as well as observe all its deficiencies.