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Three graduate students, Aamirah Nakhuda, Aidan Qualizza, and Sofia Munera Mora, have published their research undertaken as part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Master’s Students Program. Their project is the second in the three-year thematic series “In the Postcolony: Everyday Infrastructures of Design.” Building on the Toward Unsettling project conducted by the 2020 Master’s […]
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Entitled “Toward Unsettling,” the resource was prepared by Alexandra Pereira-Edwards, Misca Birklein-Lagassé, and Zaven Titizian. The three graduate students were part of the 2020 Master’s Students Program at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the first in a three-year thematic series entitled “In the Postcolony.” The research was guided by Rafico Ruiz, Associate Director of Research at the CCA, and in virtual conversation with Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts and guests.
The open-access syllabus questions settler colonial perspectives and research practices across design disciplines.
The syllabus’s introduction, presented in Inuktitut as well as in English, reads in part: “Colonization is embedded deep within built and educational structures and is continually furthered through the attempted dispossession and erasure of Indigenous lands and Peoples. This syllabus, as an infrastructure of education, can be used as a tool to restructure current pr