Designing with both eyes open
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued 94 Calls to Action to build a collective future for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. Colleges and universities are now turning to designers to help formulate a response; in various ways, they?re asking architects to answer a very difficult question: how can reconciliation become a core design principle"
?Two-Eyed Seeing? is a Mi?kmaq concept of observing the world through both an Indigenous and Western lens. When Centennial College issued a request for designs for its A-Block expansion project, DIALOG + Smoke Architecture turned to Two-Eyed Seeing. The firms? winning design suggests a path forward for architects, and potential solutions to the ongoing crises of climate and inequity. Eladia Smoke, Principal at Smoke Architecture, and Craig Applegath, Principal at DIALOG, discussed these ideas with writer Thomas Hirschmann.
Craig and Eladia smudging
?We?re all Indigenous from somewhere?
Thomas Hirschmann: What does it mean to place Two-Eyed Seeing at the heart of the design process"
Eladia Smoke: Elders have said to me, ?we’re all Indigenous from somewhere.? Land-based teachings originate within all our cultures. In some cultures, those teachings have been sublimated. We’ve developed really astounding technologies, but at the same time pretend we can live without natural systems. Technology gives us ways of putting together materials and sharing knowledge, but we have this very deep me...
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