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Unknown: You can see how much
hands on the students are with

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construction. With culture, no
other school of architecture in

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Canada is operated like this.

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get on a bus. Everybody goes to
take photos. They sketch they

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talk to people. Very good
experience with students and to

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see a school that evolved or
live invested in the communities

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is very good.

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In second year design studio,
they do a six month project,

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which is a design build. So half
the students will do a birch

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bark, canoe build. And the other
half will do like a resin canoe

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or kayak. There's an elder that
comes in and does the birch bark

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canoe. So they build right from
scratch. I start with nothing.

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We gather the materials, they do
it down in the culture room. And

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then once Tony is done, then
they'll do a launch party, they

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put it out on the lake, and
they'll launch it, the elder

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will give the name and then they
will launch it has life from

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where it goes. One of the
positive aspects of Laurentian

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as University, there's 10,000
students, but 10% of the

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population is indigenous. So we
have over 1000 Indigenous

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students. It's exciting. And I
think that's the thing that drew

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me here, just to see the
opportunities, because when you

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look at the other schools of
architecture in Canada, they're

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not new for one. And they've got
a history of their own

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programming. And they are
focused on other things. So to

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build on the idea of the
university as a try cultural

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University, and then to have
School of Architecture on the

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same basis. As unique in terms
of having students enrolled in

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programs. We want to make sure
it's done right. And if it takes

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a while then it does. Because
one of the things you have to

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remember is universities and
post secondary education is

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still a colonial agenda. The
School of Architecture still is

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based on colonization, and
that's going to take time to

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deconstruct that change. It
might not happen in my lifetime,

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but we have to start somewhere
and the roots will spread out.