Irwin is a Dutch/Canadian artist and administrator doing cultural planning, cultural infrastructure development, and support for a media arts cluster in Vancouver's inner-city. www.creativetechnology.org is a 16,000 square foot media arts centre being developed parallel to a massive inner-city redevelopment www.woodwardsdistrict.com that opens before the 2010 Winter Olympics. Irwin works with Fearless Media as well as an ICT Cluster, a unique grouping of tech companies, open source activists, low income residents and artists codesigning open source communications systems for this area—one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods. Fearless City is in beta stage, while it's mobile arm, supported by the Mobile Muse 3 platform, is developing infrastructure for urban poor/artists to access an open mesh network, recycled mobile devices, two-way rich media file sharing, and interactive live screens in public spaces. Irwin is also a parent, media artist, curator, and recently worked as Executive Director of Gallery Gachet, an interdisciplinary cultural centre for artists informed by mental health issues, trauma and/or addictions. He has an Honour's Post-Graduate Certificate in Media Arts from Capilano University.