RAIC Journal: Canada?s First Nations Designers / Wanda Dalla Costa
Wanda Dalla Costa. Photo: Mariela Pajuelo
Wanda Dalla Costa, 49, is Visiting Eminent Scholar at the Del E. Webb School of Construction at Arizona State University. An architect and member of the Saddle Lake First Nation in Alberta, she has spent nearly 20 years working with Indigenous communities with a focus on culturally responsive design and built environments as a teaching tool for traditional knowledge.
After university, you backpacked through 37 countries in seven years. How did that shape your career as an architect"
There are a lot of Indigenous people around the world who are still living in a very, very traditional environment and attuned to their culture. When I came home I thought ?what happened here [in Canada]" How are we so far removed from what traditions we had"? The principles aren?t there and the values aren?t embedded in our environment, and so much is missing. I thought we had to rebuild that connection. What is the importance of story-telling in architecture"
There are 1,184 diverse communities in North America, each with a unique story to tell and each with a distinctive protocol, process, and systems to be understood. The lessons are compounded as architecture acts as a convener for multiple disciplines: environment, economics, knowledge, art. In this light, architecture is a potent vessel of communication. It is a teaching tool, a preservation mechanism, a knowledge bridge between disciplines and between worldviews, and it is a ...
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