dc.contributor.author | Grant, George | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-13T11:43:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-13T11:43:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-07-07 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/82683 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis proposes strategies for architecture to redress the impacts of colonization and industrialization that have overshadowed and erased Indigenous narratives from public memory in lands and waters of Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal). The thesis questions whether architecture can facilitate reconciliation for Indigenous people and decolonize its extractive ways. Perspectives of Indigenous knowledge and the history embedded in the land inform a design methodology that aims to tell a deeper and more complete story of place, while creating a system and platform for Indigenous storytelling and collective healing. The resulting architecture is a series of seven built interventions including programs of community center, daycare, co-housing, and clinic in the former cradle of Canadian industrialization along the Lachine Canal. The design is positioned as a story of architectural possibilities stanced as solidarity from a settler perspective, that reflects upon truths of colonial trauma, and the potentials of reconciliation over seven generations. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Architecture | en_US |
dc.subject | Reconciliation | en_US |
dc.subject | Decolonization | en_US |
dc.subject | Indigenous | en_US |
dc.subject | Storywork | en_US |
dc.subject | Lachine Canal | en_US |
dc.subject | Montreal | en_US |
dc.title | Architecture of Reconciliation on the Lachine Canal: A Story of Decolonization over Seven Generations | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2023-06-20 | |
dc.contributor.department | School of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Steve Parcell | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Lisa Binkley | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Catherine Venart | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | María Arquero de Alarcón | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Michael Faciejew | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |