What is Human Centred Design?
What is Human Centred Design reflects upon the meanings of the word design and how the relatively complete definition of the paradigm of human centred design is formulated. The article explores design and various the meanings along with both the background and the current practice of the paradigm.
Public attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian prairie urbanism: Indigeneity in prairie urbanism
Decolonizing the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies, in ‘Culture and waste: the creation and destruction of value’
The book chapter, Decolonizing the Discourse of Environmental, is written by Deborah Bird Rose. The chapter, written in the form of an essay, discusses decolonisation as a practice, Indigenous ecological knowledge and ethics through and in comparison, to a western worldview.
White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism
White Fragility: Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? written by Dr Robin DiAngelo, explores the racialized victimhood white people experience when their assumptions about race are challenged and how this serves to maintain racial inequality. Dr Robin DiAngelo explores how the defensive moves and counterproductive reactions which are characterised as white fragility prevents meaningful cross-racial dialogue and protects racial inequality.
UMCycle Bike Kiosk
UMCycle Bike Kiosk and Cycle Plaza opened in 2017 and is located at the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus, Canada. The built project forms an active transport hub and serves as a campus landmark, linking to The Great Trail. The UMCycle Bike Kiosk was also the first project at the university to incorporate the Indigenous Planning and Design Principles.
Traditional Knowledge and Renewable Resource Management in Northern Regions
The area study published by the University of Alberta Press, explores the sometimes problematic relationship between traditional and scientific wildlife management knowledge and practices.
Towards an Aboriginal Knowledge Place: Cultural Practices as a Pathway to Wellness in the Context of a Tertiary Hospital
The journal article, Towards an Aboriginal Knowledge Place: Cultural Practices as a Pathway to Wellness in the Context of a Tertiary Hospital, discusses the health of the Indigenous community in comparison to the non-Indigenous. In light of dire statistics, the article proposes a new framework in urban hospitals for Aboriginal young people and their families, embedding culture into assessment, formulation and treatment.
Te Ara Kotahi (Our Māori Strategy)
Te Ara Kotahi (our Māori Strategy) is a written document for Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. The document provides strategic direction on how Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency plans to work with and respond to Māori as the Crown’s Treaty partner. The purpose is to work with Māori to build strong, meaningful and enduring relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. The Strategy document includes their objectives, their vision and an action plan.
Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture
Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is a book published by ORO Editions in 2018. The book offers multiple indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice. Indigenous authors explore the making and keeping of places and spaces which are informed by indigenous values and identities. This indigenous expertise combines both architecture and design with a frame of reference that roots this architecture in the indigenous places in which it sits.
Our Voices II: The DE-colonial Project
Our Voices II: the DE-colonial Project is a book published by ORO Editions in 2021. The book showcases decolonizing projects which work to de-stable and disquiet colonial-built environments. It discusses the disregard and appropriation of Indigenous places, values and identities and how Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of places and discussions they belong.