You may have heard the acknowledgement that the Cambridge School of Architecture building and the main University of Waterloo campus sit within the Haldimand Tract treaty lands and the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Have you considered more deeply how this might affect and be meaningful to your work in architecture? (more…)
On June 1, the Balsillie School of International Affairs will host “Indigenous Visions of the Global Extinction Crisis”, an art exhibition and public event that grapples with indigenous and non-indigenous understandings of the global extinction crisis. They invite Indigenous artists and performers from the Waterloo region to submit their work for inclusion in this public event. They are considering all artistic formats, including (but not limited to): painting, sculpture, readings (stories, poems, etc), short films, song, dance and ceremony.
Magdalena Miłosz will defend her thesis, “‘Don’t Let Fear Take Over’: The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools” on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 10 am in the Architecture Loft. The thesis explores the design politics and collective memory of the Indian Residential School system in Canada, which existed for 150 years until about 1970.