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Book Review: Blueprint for a Hack
Book Review: Blueprint for a Hack
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By Vikram Bhatt, David Harlander and Susane Havelka (Actar Publishers, 2020).
Blueprint for a Hack describes a five-day project that took place in 2017 in a village in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec. The Kuujjuaq Hackathon saw Inuit community members work alongside designers from southern Quebec, with the aim of examining and improving public spaces within Kuujjuaq, reducing landfill waste and participating in a cultural exchange.
The Hackathon resulted in the construction of a community sports pavilion. Created with materials salvaged from the local landfill a shipping container, scrap lumber, tractor tires and septic tanks the pavilion, and the processes that shaped it, represent an unassuming yet critical precedent for challenging formalized practices of architecture and design. In recognition of this importance, it was awarded a National Urban Design Award in 2018.