CCA Master’s Program students release Toward Unsettling syllabus
An open-access syllabus focused on critically examining colonial practices in Canadian architecture has been released by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, along with a supplementary index of short writings.
Entitled “Toward Unsettling,” the resource was prepared by Alexandra Pereira-Edwards, Misca Birklein-Lagassé, and Zaven Titizian. The three graduate students were part of the 2020 Master?s Students Program at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the first in a three-year thematic series entitled ?In the Postcolony.? The research was guided by Rafico Ruiz, Associate Director of Research at the CCA, and in virtual conversation with Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts and guests.
The open-access syllabus questions settler colonial perspectives and research practices across design disciplines. The syllabus’s introduction, presented in Inuktitut as well as in English, reads in part: “Colonization is embedded deep within built and educational structures and is continually furthered through the attempted dispossession and erasure of Indigenous lands and Peoples. This syllabus, as an infrastructure of education, can be used as a tool to restructure current processes within the design disciplines to reflect the multiplicity of voices seeking to disrupt colonial action. It is an opportunity to construct new frameworks of collaborative, inclusive design and research with an emphasis on Indigenous Knowledge and resilience.”
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