Maanjiwe Nendamowinan (The Gathering of Minds)

Connecting Indigenous placemakers and caring for place through co-creative research with the Toronto Islands

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ID22223299
AuthorsNicole Latulippe (0000-0002-2229-0550, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Biddy Livesey (Ngā Aho Māori Design Network, Aotearoa, New Zealand), Desna Whaanga-Schollum (0000-0002-0772-0081, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pahauwera. Chair, Ngā Aho Māori Design Network, Aotearoa, New Zealand), Cathie Jamieson (Canadian Celiac Association), Jym Clark (Ngā Aho Māori Design Network, Aotearoa, New Zealand), Rebecca Kiddle (0000-0003-0394-3234, Ngāti Porou, Ngā Puhi. Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, New Zealand)
Year2023
Volume2
Issue1-2
Pages96-120
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning F (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2634-9825 • E-ISSN: 2634-9825
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/26349825231163152
PMID41907453
OpenAlexW4366189069
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited37

Connecting Indigenous Placemakers was a week-long practitioners’ retreat and public symposium held on Menecing, the Toronto Island (Treaty 13a). The collaborative project was supported by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN), Ngā Aho Māori Designers’ Network, and other institutional partners. Based on the success in Aotearoa New Zealand of supporting Indigenous placemaking practitioners and shaping opportunities through a network, the 2019 gathering created a supportive space for Indigenous creatives to be on the land, work on collective and individual projects, build relationship with one another, share knowledge and shape broader discourse on Indigenous placemaking in Toronto. As retreat participants integrated the teachings of Menecing, the Treaty Lands and Territory of the MCFN and a gathering place of many nations, the group began referring to the project as Maanjiwe Nendamowinan, the Gathering of Minds. This co-creative experience made clear the primacy of Place. That is, ‘we don’t make place – Place makes us’. Grounded in Menecing, and in dialogue with many voices, we demonstrate the more-than-ontological significance of Indigenous conceptualizations of and relational practices in (uppercase- P) Place, an entity with a specific identity. We conclude with key considerations that keep Place and placekeeping at the heart of research: respect for the sacred, living well with all our relations, relationship with the peoples of Place, and rethinking research

Aesthetics · Aotearoa · Archaeology · Geography · Indigenous · Media studies · Place attachment · Placemaking · Political science · Public relations · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Architecture

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