Unknown Speaker  0:00  
You can see how much hands on the students are with construction. With culture, no other school of architecture in Canada is operated like this.

Unknown Speaker  0:21  
get on a bus. Everybody goes to take photos. They sketch they talk to people. Very good experience with students and to see a school that evolved or live invested in the communities is very good.

Unknown Speaker  1:05  
In second year design studio, they do a six month project, which is a design build. So half the students will do a birch bark, canoe build. And the other half will do like a resin canoe or kayak. There's an elder that comes in and does the birch bark canoe. So they build right from scratch. I start with nothing. We gather the materials, they do it down in the culture room. And then once Tony is done, then they'll do a launch party, they put it out on the lake, and they'll launch it, the elder will give the name and then they will launch it has life from where it goes. One of the positive aspects of Laurentian as University, there's 10,000 students, but 10% of the population is indigenous. So we have over 1000 Indigenous students. It's exciting. And I think that's the thing that drew me here, just to see the opportunities, because when you look at the other schools of architecture in Canada, they're not new for one. And they've got a history of their own programming. And they are focused on other things. So to build on the idea of the university as a try cultural University, and then to have School of Architecture on the same basis. As unique in terms of having students enrolled in programs. We want to make sure it's done right. And if it takes a while then it does. Because one of the things you have to remember is universities and post secondary education is still a colonial agenda. The School of Architecture still is based on colonization, and that's going to take time to deconstruct that change. It might not happen in my lifetime, but we have to start somewhere and the roots will spread out.

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