Author: Rebecca Caines
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Excited to launch our new Moccasin Path at Markham Oct 9
Hope you can all join us to launch our Moccasin Identifier partnered Moccasin Augmented Reality Path this October 9th at 2pm at Markham Campus.
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Advisory Circle continues to meet every term (or when events are happening)
Very grateful to our Advisory Circle, who have been meeting for 4 year now! Our meetings are full of laughter, serious conversation, planning and connection.
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Our new educational resource is now live!
Thanks to the whole team for their amazing feeedback and ideas. Our new report/resource guide entitled “Open Educational Resource: Creative Land-based Teaching at Universities with Indigenous Partners” is now available for free download here: https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42932 Abstract: This Open Educational Resource is a guide intended to support those working in universities and other educational institutions who…
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Moccasin workshop a success
It was a delight to welcome the team from our partner, the Moccasin Identifier initiative to Markham campus to work with first year students in the Creative Technologies program and members of the public. We were also grateful to member of our Indigenous Advisory Circle, Tristan Martell, who came and offered opening prayers for the…
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Finding a name
It has been an adventure thinking how to collectively name this group and given its very diverse backgrounds and activities. With advice from knowledge keepers and community leaders, we continue to think of this project’s “journey” as a series of parallel and occasionally intersecting paths with different names and different purposes. We asked community members…
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Partnered project got funding!
So pumped for our Circle and team to get to work on this project, with our partners. Game design camps supporting Indigenous youth, community visits, experiential education for York students, its going to be exciting!
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Land-based knowledge sharing (and graduate class)
What a gift to have Circle member, Dustin Brass, sharing his knowledge with us as we develop land-based learning strategies. Dustin worked with graduate students in the AMPD Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Summer Institute class, visited with York centres and partners , and did site visits at Markham to plan our future experiential…
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The Connected Minds project is supporting our work
Delighted that the incredible research project Connected Minds has given us seed funding to support our Circle’s work and partnered projects. The project “Towards Socially-Responsible “Transfer Learning”: Connecting Artists, Engineers, Neuroscientists and their Partners through Interdisciplinary Knowledge Mobilization”will be helping to support our explorations of land-based learning through augmented reality and moccasin stencilling, as well…
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Our opening meetings and events brought us together
Before we even had a University campus building at Markham, we were planning how we might build partnerships together, with the advice of an incredible team of artists and Indigenous leaders, professors, students, and guests. We began this work with an event at the Royal Ontario Museum entitled “Art, Tech, Education and Listening to the…
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Training to learn about history, cultural competency, and trauma
So grateful for this incredible training designed by Dr. Maya Chacaby (leader of our partner project Biskaabiiyaang through York’s Glendon Campus. It is open to all people (you do not have to be a York student), and attracts settler and Indigenous people from across the country, helping to better understand history, trauma-awareness, and cultural competency.…