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Tak Pham

Curator, Art Critic, Researcher
Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Tak Pham participates

Thursday 25 May, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
communitiesdomestic architecturesocial relationsdecolonizationindigenous issuesmodernismmethodologypedagogyarchitectural practice

As a marker within territory, architecture stakes a claim over that territory on behalf of those who design and build. In Canada, this dynamic inscribed colonial powers onto the land in the wake of Indigenous dispossession, and this architecture is often celebrated as reflective of settler nationhood. Yet other architectures also emerge out of this colonial past: those specifically constructed to further Canada’s attempts to assimilate First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities into the do...