“This talk will discuss the colonial premise for contemporary forms of urban life and the possibilities for Indigenous agency within this context. The fantasy of property is presented as central to a detached relationship with the Land that presents significant challenges for alternative futures.”
Hosted by the UCSD Department of Urban Studies and Planning, co-sponsored by The Design Lab, the Institute of Arts and Humanities, and the Indigenous Futures Institute.
Link here
Event description - “In this panel we hear from five distinguished Indigenous architects who practice as designers, planners, and community organizers while making extensive contributions to scholarship, research and the education of future generations of practitioners. Practice-defining pedagogy that emerged in the Beaux Arts and Bauhaus traditions has persisted for decades. This panel presents contemporaneous alternative Indigenous Practice and Pedagogies, where, from the words of Dr. Jojola, “planning is a culturally responsive and value-based approach to community development; where the measure of form is its cultural meaning rather than building elements as style, function and form; where the process of design is an orchestration of public engagement that gives voice and clarity to built form; where buildings are the narrative of a community and a metaphor for stories that are invested in place and time.” Description here.
Tamarah Begay
Indigenous Design Studio + Architecture & University of New Mexico
Chris Cornelius
studio:indigenous & University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Theodore Jojola
Indigenous Design + Planning Institute & University of New Mexico
David Fortin
David T. Fortin Architect Inc. & Laurentian University
Rau Hoskins
TRIBE Architects & UNITEC Institute of Technology
Tillicum Lelum’s Housing Building. (Designed by DYS Architecture. Photo: Jason Surkan)
Indigenous Homes Innovation Initiative Brings Together Indigenous Innovators and Mentors to Further Develop Indigenous-Led Housing Ideas
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Photo by David Fortin
Here are some Indigenous influencers who made waves in 2019. From left to right: @elisapie, @jasonsurkan, @notvanishing, @instanyla, @larissa_speaks, @Nickdangeli. Stay tuned to learn more about each individual and their accomplishments over the past year.
Keep an eye out to see what’s next for these change makers in 2020!
David Fortin article published in Roca Gallery (Spain).
Read the full article here: http://www.rocagallery.com/towards-indigenously-intelligent-housing
Image courtesy of Two Row Architects and KPMB Architects
NEWS
Teachers, students have a global view, but local focus, councillors told.
Officials from the McEwen School of Architecture updated city council on their progress earlier this month, taking time out to thank councilors for being an early supporter of the project.
The school opened in 2013, led by founding director Terrance Galvin, and later opened a campus downtown, in the former location of the farmers market.
“We are here as a school and individuals because this council brought a bold vision of the school of architecture into downtown Sudbury — from a far-fetched idea into reality when many doubted this could ever succeed,” said David Fortin, the current director of the school.
Excerpt from Sudbury.com written by: Darren MacDonald
The full article can be read here: https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/continue-to-be-aspirational-sudburys-school-of-architecture-plans-to-be-around-in-100-years-1983763
CBC NEWS
Assistant Professor David Fortin has been named the new director of Laurentian University's McEwen School of Architecture. He will take over from current director Terrance Galvin in January 2018. (Samantha Samson/CBC News)
Principal Architect, Dr. David T Fortin was recently interviewed by CBC Unreserved’s Rosanna Deerchild.
"Indigenous people are in a great position right now to expect more of the built environment and to challenge their architects and their builders to work toward expressing those values again," Fortin said.
You can listen to the full interview here:
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/celebrating-the-arts-downtown/
“Current director David Fortin explains that every aspect of the campus – from its central location to the building’s exposed architectural details and its use of wood throughout – was designed to support the architecture school’s mandate to serve, and draw inspiration from, Northern Ontario.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/venice-architecture-biennale-canada-indigenous-exhibit
Principal Architect, David T Fortin is a guest on CBC’s Radio's Morning North. It is a weekday news and current affairs program hosted by Markus Schwabe.
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David Fortin is the director of the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University. (Waubgeshig Rice/CBC)
“A team of Indigenous architects from across the country is getting ready to represent Canada in a prestigious international architecture competition.
Led by renowned architect Douglas Cardinal, the exhibit called Unceded: Voices of the Land will showcase Indigenous architecture at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale from May to November.
David Fortin, the newly-named director of the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University, is curating the project along with Gerald McMaster from OCAD University.
"We're going to show Europe and the global architectural world that the Indigenous voice is strong in architecture," said Fortin, who's Métis and is the first Indigenous director of a Canadian architecture school.”
Excerpt Written by Waubgeshig Rice/CBC.
The full article can be read here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/indigenous-architects-venice-biennale-1.4487546
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/governor-generals-medals-architecture-call-submissions/
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-trouble-with-trudeaus-indigenous-centre-plan/
