See the video of the workshops Manitoba’s First Nation communities are facing a severe housing shortage due to population growth, inadequate funding from the government, restrictive government policies, lack of land ownership on reserve by communities, lack of homeownership by residents and culturally inappropriate housing designs, among other factors (Kendall, 2001; Mctavish et al., 2012)….
Win the Dragon’s Den: Proposal Writing Workshop March 6 & 7, 2019
Registration: 120$/person Registration Deadline: Wednesday, February 27th at 4:30pm Register at: http://umanitoba.ca/institutes/natural_resources/mino/mino.htm Agenda Download Poster Download
Designing Culturally Appropriate Homes with Local Youth and Local Materials
First Nation youth are designing and building culturally appropriate homes from local wood they have logged and sawn. A housing design workshop occurred October 2nd and 3rd, 2018 with the Boreal Homebuilders in the communities of Wasagamack and Garden Hill First Nations.The design workshops were led by two University of Manitoba architects Lancelot Coar and Shauna Mallory-Hill, as well as Architect Master…