Jay Irizawa is a 3rd generation Japanese Canadian interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher exploring relations in ancestral knowledges. He is the Graduate Program Director for the Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design master’s program (IAMD) at OCAD University; also known as a TroubleMaker. Jay is troubling the ways we come to know the world by inviting speculative, futurist, critical, anti-oppressive, and anti-racist methods of art and design knowledge to raise ethical questions at the forefront of creative processes, both in theory and in the materiality of collaborative making.