About this Gathering
Date and Location
Date: November 21st, 2023
Where: Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon, SK
About the Community Conversations
The meeting provided a forum for researchers, industry partners, and local/provincial/federal policy writers to listen to First Nations and Metis community members about their lived experience and preferred pathways for changing the built environment that reflects Indigenous ways. This can guide research, improving relevance, usability and uptake to reduce health impacts over the housing lifecycle. The meeting facilitated the development of a new network of people who are working on built environments while providing opportunities for interdisciplinary learning for researchers and trainees. The meeting aimed for meaningful engagement between First Nations and Metis community members, home builders/engineers, policy makers, and researchers working across these areas. For example, health research knowledge may not be well known to home building industry partners. There is multiple advantages to listening to First Nations and Metis community members and applying this knowledge to optimise healthy built environments in Saskatchewan communities. The knowledge we gain from this process is directing plans for a national network to advance First Nations and Metis built environment.
Through this meeting, we facilitate knowledge-to-action as determined by First Nations and Metis people. We identified barriers to Indigenous built environment and levers for change. In combination, these outcomes are supporting the development of a framework for research, knowledge blending, policy action, and engagement driven by First Nations and Metis community members, professional builders, policy makers, and researchers working on the built environment. This meeting connected communities, researchers, and trainees, professional engineers and builders who are responding to the Calls to Action of the TRC with a goal of creating partnerships for change.
Meeting Outcomes
Graphic Recordings
Graphic recordings were developed to illustrate the outcomes of the round table discussions at the symposium!
Builds & Procurement
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Policy & Governance
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These Graphic Recordings were developed by FuseLight
Video: Music - Composition: "Kahkiyaw Oskâyak" by Sherryl Sewepagaham
This performance is a live recording by the University of Saskatchewan Greystone Singers directed by Dr. Jennifer Lang.