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The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in the Built Environment

Indigenous Knowledge is intimately connected with nature and is a recurring topic in the design and planning of urban built environments.
  • Level: Beginner
  • Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Video Time: 42 minutes
  • Creator: Tawaw Architecture Collective Inc.
  • Learners: 30+ 
Overview

What to Expect

  • Learning Topics
    Introduction to emerging fields related to Indigenous knowledge in the built environment including Biocultural Landscapes, Ethnobotany, Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology.
  • Introducing a Native Scholar
    Gregory Cajete, the author of Native Science; The Natural Laws of Interdependence, is one of the authors featured in this lesson, who helps bridge western and Indigenous concepts. 
  • Lecture Video Insight
    To introduce the subject, Wanda provides an overview of material to guide the learners. 
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 30 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 Framework™ 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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