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Engagement for Indigenous Design 2025

This workshop takes you through the process of engaging Indigenous communities in the architecture design process. 
  • Level: Beginner
  • Duration:  1 hour
  • Creator: Tawaw Architecture Collective
  • Learners: 95+ 

What to Expect

  • Real-World Engagement

    In scenarios drawn from our client experiences, you will practice techniques to establish a rapport with Indigenous community.

    You’ll review the steps required to form an advisory committee and create an engagement strategy. Then, you’ll plan a community engagement event with your advisory committee to obtain culturally relevant design input.

  • Templates and Tools

    Throughout the course, you’ll use templates and examples to create engagement strategy documents, engagement event presentations, and agendas.

  • Productive Disruption

    At Tawaw, design is not something we bring—it’s something we uncover, together.

    This commitment to productive disruption encourages the pursuit of new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to share our human-centered approach with an ever-widening community of practice.

    An AI narrator has been employed for most of the videos presented in this course. While we are pleased with the results, you may notice minor imperfections from time to time. We ask that you grant us a bit of grace as you watch these videos and enjoy the learning experience we’ve created for you.
Instructor

Wanda Dalla Costa

Indigenous | Saddle Lake Cree Nation 

Wanda Dalla Costa is a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Northern Alberta and brings 25 years of experience working with communities across North America. She is the first, First Nations woman to be licensed to practice architecture in Canada and the Principal of Tawaw Architecture Collective Inc. located in Phoenix, Arizona and Calgary, Alberta. In 2010, she created the Indigenous Placekeeping FrameworkTM a highly collaborative approach that aims to enlarge the community’s role in the planning and designing of urban and rural environments.

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