The next gathering of the Community for Belonging Reading Group, an initiative open to all Daniels Faculty students, alumni, faculty and staff, will explore spacemaking and placemaking and feature a special book launch for ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards Home: Inuit and Sámi Placemaking.

All Daniels Faculty community members are invited to participate on Wednesday, November 20, from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m., in the Eberhard Zeidler Library. Register in advance.

The publication—in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Architecture exhibition presented at the Daniels Faculty last fall—presents memories, experiences and projections that hold the potential to shape what home in and for Northern Indigenous communities can be. It ultimately asks: Where is home? Where does land begin? And where do we go from here?

One of the publication’s editors, Jocelyn Piirainen, will join CCA editor Alexandra Pereira-Edwards to facilitate discussion and speak further about the making of the book and its thematic framework.

Participants are asked to review the curator interviews as a companion reading piece (and to provide context for the book and exhibition). Of the eight interviews, participants should read at least two:

• Futurecasting: Towards Indigenous-Led Architecture

• Calling Home

• Borderless Inventing

• A Guide Towards Home

• Designing a Space for Home

• The Presence of Sámi Knowledges

• Towards Inuit Futures

• Welcome Home

Limited copies of the book will be available for free on a first-come, first-served basis in the Eberhard Zeidler Library beginning November 8. 

The Community for Belonging Reading Group is sponsored by U of T Affinity Partners, Manulife and TD Insurance.