TY  - JOUR
TI  - Embedding Indigenous Knowledge into Housing Design with the Homebuilding Students in Wasagamack and Garden Hill First Nations, Manitoba, Canada
AU  - Sallese, C.
AU  - Mallory-Hill, S.
AU  - Thompson, S.
T2  - Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
AB  - Wasagamack and Garden Hill First Nations in Island Lake, Manitoba, are experiencing a housing crisis, with severe overcrowding. This article describes a research analysis of local materials, building skill levels, environment, demographics, and cultural aspects completed by graduate students in interior design as part of collaborative design/build activities, training programs, and community workshops. This study is part of a First Nation community/university partnership. Healthy, culturally appropriate, resilient single-and extended-family homes were designed using local materials and labour. This pilot project offers a pathway to build capacity to fill the gap of 150,000 homes in a way that advances cultural, health, social, and economic development. Further, a decolonizing policy and the provision of adequate infrastructure, such as access roads, in Indigenous reserves are needed to create a sustainable home-building ecosystem. © 2024 Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research.
DA  - 2024///
PY  - 2024
DO  - 10.29173/cjnser582
VL  - 15
IS  - 1
SP  - 28
EP  - 45
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85193715199&doi=10.29173%2fcjnser582&partnerID=40&md5=8d84c49e201dfd9ef90fd6c2ed8f3366
DB  - Scopus
KW  - 54141:Interior Design Services
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Business And Economics
KW  - Canada
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Interior design
KW  - Inuit
KW  - Local materials
KW  - Manitoba Canada
KW  - Mortgages
KW  - Native North Americans
KW  - Students
ER  -