Book Review: Our Voices?Indigeneity and Architecture
Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture
Edited by Rebecca Kiddle, luugigyoo patrick stewart and Kevin O?Brien. ORO Editions, 2018.
REVIEW Shelagh McCartney
I am a settler-scholar, architect and planner living in tkaronto. Over the last five years, through work on housing systems, I have had the privilege to partner with First Nations across the Treaty 9 territory and to often be generously welcomed onto their lands.
View of the 2017 Niitsitapi Learning Centre in Calgary, Alberta, by Wanda Dalla Costa. Photo by Pierre Comty.
As a settler on Turtle Island, I do not have one of the voices being shared in the book Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture by Rebecca Kiddle, luugigyoo patrick stewart and Kevin O?Brien. This book is about voice?Indigenous voice?and is an important contribution to the small but growing global body of literature on the relationship between Indigeneity and architecture. A self-declared ?unashamedly Indigenous-centric book,? Our Voices offers a model for Indigenous scholarship by carefully curating texts by a range of practictioners, academics and advocates with diverse perspectives on design. Our role as allies is to find a central place for Indigenous partners and their stories, and most importantly, to listen to those stories. The book?s creation itself exemplifies a decolonized process that included reimagining the review process, offering various presentation formats, and itself being of a place. (It?s described as being hosted in Aotearoa New Z...
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