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The Library.

On: Practice

Colomina, Beatriz. “War on Architecture: E.1027”. Assemblage no. 20, Violence, Space (1993): 28-29.

“Decolonizing Design, Imagining Alternative Futures” panel discussion at Rhode Island School of Design with RISD faculty Namita Dharia, Jess Brown, Ramon Tejada, Ijlal Muzaffar, and moderated by Arturo Escobar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sqm7h8UmEo 

Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy by Jason Arday and Heidi Safia Mirza

​Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1-40. https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index. php/des/article/view/18630

George Epolito. “On Otherness: Looking at (Different Ways Of) Inculcating Diversity.” Space Unveiled (2014) 237–46. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315765990-35.

Glen Coulthard, “Place against Empire: Understanding Indigenous Anti-Colonialism,” Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, November 23, 2010, https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/affinities/article/view/6141

Samuel Ganton, Amina Lalor, and Paniz Moayeri. “Treaty Lands, GLOBAL Stories: Designing an Inclusive Curriculum.” Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 43, no. 2 (2018): 15. https://doi.org/10.7202/1058036ar.

Sierra Tasi Baker: On happiness and Indigenizing design Design unmuted podcast with SALA alum Divine Ndemeye https://www.remeshadesign.com/designunmuted/episode04 

Stratford, Helen. “Micro-Strategies of Resistance.” Resources for Feminist Research 29, no. 3 (Fall, 2002): 223-232.

 

Tristan Schultz, Danah Abdulla, Ahmed Ansari, Ece Canli, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Matthew Kiem, Luiza Prado de O. Martins & Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira, “What Is at Stake with Decolonizing Design? A Roundtable, Design and Culture,” 10:1 (2018), 81-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/17547 075.2018.1434368

“Unsettled Lands: Architecture, History, Pedagogy” panel discussion at U of T with Ana María León (University of Michigan); Andrew Herscher (University of Michigan); K. Wayne Yang (UC San Diego); Eladia Smoke (Laurentian University); and moderated by Mary Lou Lobsinger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tAdnwwAvjc 

On: Identity

Christopher Clarke McQueen, “Indigenous Healing,” Race | Space (blog), https://blogs.mcgill.ca/race-space/2020/11/18/ indigenous-healing-by-chris-clarke-mcqueen/.

David Fortin, “Reflections on Indigeneity in Architectural Education,” Race | Space (blog) https://blogs.mcgill.ca/racespace/2021/01/19/reflections-on-indigeneity-in-architecturaleducation-by-david-fortin/.

Davis, Charles. “Black Spaces Matter”. Aggregate Vol.2 (March 2015). Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 110-114. Ed. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 2007.

How Indigenous architects are resisting colonial legacies and reshaping spaces CBC Unreserved podcast with Falen Johnson https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/how-indigenous-architects-are-resisting-colonial-legacies-and-reshaping-spaces-1.5971556 

Lance Hosey. “Hidden Lines: Gender, Race, and the Body in Graphic Standards.” Journal of Architectural Education 55, no. 2 (2001): 101–12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1425611.

The Built Environment

Architectural Principles from an Indigenous Perspective, TEDxYYC, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2iqZaNlsQ 

Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) et al., “Toward Unsettling: The Swimming Pools of Nunavut,” https://www. cca.qc.ca/en/articles/76155/toward-unsettling.

David Fortin, “From Indian to Indigenous Agency: Opportunities and Challenges for Architectural Design,” Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices, edited by John Potvin and Marie-Ève Marchand (London and NY: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020), pp. 243-258

Decolonizing Architecture CIVA podcast with Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti & Nikolaus Hirsch https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rOv92siMCqsY3QTjgIX6z 

Dialectic. VII, Decolonizing architectural pedagogy by Mira Locher [and thirteen others] edited by Anna Goodman and Shundana Yusaf

Domosh, Mona. “Geography and gender: home, again?.” Progress in Human Geography 22, no. 2 (1998): 276-282.

Douglas Cardinal: Architect of the Future. National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education (NCCIE), 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_-iR69ACM 

​Gulsum Baydar. “Toward Postcolonial Openings: Rereading Sir Banister Fletcher’s “History of Architecture”.” Assemblage, no. 35 (1998): 7-17

Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighbourhoods, and Cities. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.

Hayden, Dolores. “What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?” Signs 5, no. 3 (Spring 1980): 170-181

“How urban spaces can preserve history and build community” TED Talk by Walter Hood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=762c6pFpoqg 

Katherine Flynn, “How Can We Decolonize Architecture?”, Architect Magazine (June 11, 2021) https://www.architectmagazine.com/aia-architect/aiafuture/how-can-we-decolonize-architecture_o

Koskela, Hille. “‘Bold walk and breakings’: women’s spatial confidence versus fear of violence”. Gender, Place and Culture 4, no. 3 (1997): 301-319.

Magdalena Milosz, “Settler Colonialism, Residential Schools, and Architectural History,” Active History (blog), November 21, 2019, https://activehistory.ca/2019/11/settlercolonialism-residential-schools-and-architectural-history/.

​Our voices : Indigeneity and Architecture by Rebecca Kiddle, luugigyoo Patrick Stewart, and Kevin O’Brien

​Penelope Edmonds, “Unpacking Settler Colonialism’s Urban Strategies: Indigenous Peoples in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Transition to a Settler-Colonial City,” Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire Urbaine 38, no. 2 (2010): 4–20

Phadke, Shilpa. “‘Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent.” Dissent and Resistance in Asian Cities, ed. by Selvaraj Veluthan and Melissa Butcher, 185-203. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1917.

Shiri Pasternak, “Property in Three Registers,” Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy, no. 00 (2011): 10, 15–17

​Surmann, Anita. “The Evolution of Kitchen Design: A Yearning for a Modern Stone Age Cave” in Culinary Turn: Aesthetic Practice of Cookery, ed. by Nicolaj van der Meulen and Jörg Wiesel, 47-56. Bielefield: Transcript Verlag, 2017.

​Timmah Ball, “On the Inside ‘Out’: The Architecture of Inclusion in the Diversity Economy,” The Avery Review 43 (2019), https://averyreview.com/issues/43/on-the-inside-out

Weisman, Leslie Kanes. ‘Prologue: ‘Women’s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto’’, in Gender Space Architecture, ed. by Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner and Iain Borden, 1-5. London: Routledge, 2000.

​“Where Are My People? Native & Indigenous in Architecture,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture https://www.acsa-arch.org/resources/data-resources/where-are-my-people-native-indigenous-in-architecture/.

Winona LaDuke and Deborah Cowen, “Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure,” South Atlantic Quarterly 119, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 243–68, https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8177747.

The Natural Environment

Butt, Nathalie, Frances Lambrick, Mary Menton & Anna Renwick. “The Supply Chain of Violence”. Nature Sustainability vol. 2 (2019): 742–747.

Julian Raxworthy, “The landscape of practices: Decolonizing landscape architecture,” The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design (2018) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/ edit/10.4324/9781315623412-19/landscape-practices-julianraxworthy

Katherine McKittrick, “Plantation Futures,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 17, no. 3 (42) (November 1, 2013): 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378892

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions, 2015.

Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. New York, Harper & Row, 1989.

Warren, Karen and Nisvan Erkal. Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

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