August 2011 - MADELINE ASHBY

From my design thesis on the future of border security:

1 Comment / These fragments I have shored against my ruins / By Madeline

As part of my thesis for the Strategic Foresight & Innovation program at the Ontario College of Art and Design, I’m writing fictionalized scenarios on the future of “service as security” in the customs clearance context. Here’s a snippet: The communications training had gone a long way to preparing her for the transformation. Part of […]

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To the young man who asked my name:

Canadians like it on top / By Madeline

This is the song I was listening to when you wondered if it was the source of my disposition.

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On cancer

2 Comments / Canadians like it on top, Life / By Madeline

My mother is a cancer survivor. During my third year of university, we learned that she was suffering from ductal carcinoma in-situ, a slow form of breast cancer that was undetectable by self-exam or mammogram. In her case, it took a stubborn doctor and a galactogram to diagnose her. Another family member had been diagnosed

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