Yuya Takeda is a PhD student at the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia. He is exploring pedagogical and methodological possibilities of participatory documentary filmmaking with participator focus on critical literacy, digital (media) literacy, and civic engagement. Takeda is a member of Digital Literacy Centre. There, we run a place-based, geotagged, online mapping of an innovative spoken word poetry project called PhoneMe. He is also an experimental photographer. For more information about his projects, please visit yuyapecotakeda.com.