This Circle works closely with educators at York University and in the community to forward our shared values and goals.
Current activities:
AMPD Creative Technologies Program, Markham Campus, York University, supported by the York University Academic Innovation Fund, with research components supported by Connected Minds.
Advised by the Indigenous Advisory Circle, the Creative Technologies projects are partnering on experiential education courses with the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at the brand new York campus at Markham.
Students in three Creative Technologies classes (Fall, 2024 Winter, and Spring/Summer 2025) are currently participating in land-based learning advised by our Circle, through class visits, experiential education modules, and land-based intensives with guests. Activities include: helping to prototype public art research with partners, land-based learning with creative technologies tools in the Markham area, and co-creating augmented reality projects, and other land-based creative outputs.
Planning is also in progress for partnered Indigenous computer game design camps, and community workshops as part of the Biskaabiiyaang project (see Partnered Projects) in Fall of 2025. Classes will also be connected to this project.
The instructors in the Creative Technologies program at York (Markham) also continue to build Indigenous content and guests into their classes. If you are local to York Region or Toronto and want to get involved, contact us!
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land that the York University campuses are on, the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region. The territories in the Markham area are covered by the Upper Canada Treaties. We also acknowledge the current land claims for the Rouge Tract by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This land acknowledgement is in process as together, we continue to learn more about the land of the Markham campus and its history.