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Indigenous Urban Design: The Thesis Research Begins!

4/10/2017

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Today I submitted my thesis proposal! The working title is "From Vision to Visuals: A Generative Process Tool for Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Urban Design and Cultural Revitalization", but that's pretty long and will probably be changed. Essentially I want to look at how the Gwa'sala and 'Nakwaxda'xw people originally designed and built communities, using the four village sites shown in the map as the sample sites.

The "norms" of how we built our traditional communities can be called place-based norms and would include things like "a boardwalk along the beach" and "houses in a row facing the water" etc. etc. Then I want to take those place-based norms and figure out how they might have all been woven together to help our ancestors build our villages. Then, I want to try and figure out how they might be written down so that they can guide the way we build and develop our villages in modern times.

It's going to be a big, exciting project, and I'm excited to spend a lot of the summer at home in Port Hardy diving into the research and elder interviews, and maybe learning a bunch of new Kwa'kwala words over the summer as well.

In the meantime, here's a copy of the literature map, I'd love to have suggestions about anything to add, especially around analyzing place-based norms and/or traditional Indigenous urban design research.

​- J

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