At June's Culture in Place public Symposium, the team premiered Uncovering the Ground — a short film grown out of a Project Lab built on one question: how can Indigenous knowledge shape the way we plan, design, and build our cities?
The Lab starts with listening — to land, to story, to community — and treats every building as part of a longer narrative, not an isolated structure. It's an approach that holds economic realities and cultural memory in the same hand, working toward a framework for development rooted in place, memory, and reconciliation in the urban realm.
Developed in partnership with the Central City Foundation around the Abbott Mansion project in the Downtown Eastside, the Lab produced two things: a prototype layered cultural mapping system, and the film that debuted at the Symposium on June 11th.
Thank you again to Jennifer Johnstone, President & CEO of Central City Foundation for her vision and support throughout this amazing journey.
Our UEA Project Lab team:
UEA Member: Taizo Yamamoto, Yamamoto Architecture
UEA Member: Cory Douglas, Modern Formline
UEA Member: Shanti Williamson, Modern Formline
UEA Member: Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Ginger Gosnell-Myers
Collaborator: Jennifer Johnstone, Central City Foundation
UEA Member: Ryan Savella, Arcade Original
UEA Member: Michael Menten, Bouva Media
UEA Member: Geoff Hunt, Tiny Vikings
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