Photo credit: Francis Fougere
Members of the Queen?s community recently gathered to celebrate the official opening of a new outdoor Indigenous gathering space on campus.
The new space, designed by Smoke Architecture, is located at the south end of Tindall Field, and will now serve as a place for learning, ceremony, and reflection.
Photo credit: Francis Fougere
?This is a teaching and learning space for the whole campus, with a focus on the teaching of Indigenous studies and giving Indigenous faculty a space where they can teach classes in the ways they have always taught, in the ways we have always come to know things,? said Kandice Baptiste, senior director, student inclusion, equity, and belonging, during remarks at the event.
Photo credit: Francis Fougere ?I look forward to seeing many classes here that are taught in circle and flipped from the traditional lecture style so that folks have an understanding of the history of this territory and are exposed to different ways of knowing and being on this campus. The land is our first teacher, and this is purposefully made to be in the land so that we can as a campus better understand our roles and responsibilities as human beings.?
The building is an outdoor classroom inspired by the wakaaigan | teaching lodge, a bentwood frame clad in wiigwaas | birchbark.
Photo credit: Francis Fougere
According to Smoke Architecture, the building was designed collaboratively with Indigenous faculty and advisors and is an outdoor-integrated ...