Towards Home: Inuit & Sámi Placemaking: Inuit & Sámi Placemaking - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9493246256 ISBN 13: 9789493246256

Publisher: Valiz, 2024

Synopsis

Design and building concepts that pay respect to the land and empower Indigenous communities across the Northern Hemisphere

An Indigenous-led publication, Towards Home explores how Inuit, Sámi and other communities across the Arctic are creating self-determined spaces. This research project, led by Indigenous and settler coeditors, is titled after the phrases angirramut in Inuktitut, or ruovttu guvlui in Sámi, which can be translated as "towards home." To move towards home is to reflect on where northern Indigenous people find home, on what their connections to their land means and on what these relationships could look like into the future. Framed by these three concepts--Home, Land and Future--the book contains essays, artworks, photographs and personal narratives that express Indigenous notions of home, land, kinship, design and memory. The project emphasizes caring for and living on the land as a way of being, and celebrates practices of space-making and place-making that empower Indigenous communities.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Towards Home / / Ruovttu Guvlui, an Indigenous-led publication,
explores how Inuit, Sámi, and other communities across the Arctic are creating
self-determined spaces. It is informed by the perspectives of a group of Inuit,
Sámi, and settler co-editors who share the ambition to promote northern Indigenous
forms of sovereignty shaped by an understanding of the land as home.
The project emphasizes caring for and living on the land as a way of being, and
celebrates practices of spacemaking and placemaking that empower Indigenous
communities.
(angirramut) in Inuktitut, or ruovttu guvlui in Sámi, can be translated
as ‘towards home’. To move towards home is to reflect on where northern
Indigenous people find home, on what their connections to their land means,
and on what these relationships could look like into the future. The publication
is framed by these three concepts: Home, Land, and Future. It contains essays,
artworks, photographs, personal narratives, and other forms that express
Indigenous notions of home, land, kinship, design, and memory. The publication
ultimately asks: What could home become across Inuit Nunangat, Sápmi,
and the North more generally when defined by Indigenous architects and
designers? Where do homelands begin?
This publication was conceived in parallel to research, workshops,
and an exhibition at the CCA, Montréal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Valiz
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9493246256
• ISBN 13: 9789493246256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Nango Joar, Partridge Taqralik, Piirainen Jocelyn, Ruiz Rafico