Collaboration boosts library’s Indigenous Knowledge Centre
THUNDER BAY — A collaboration between the Thunder Bay Public Library and furniture students at Sheridan College has helped build a unique expansion for the library’s Indigenous Knowledge Centre.
“We had the students help us design a space that allowed us to really expand. It’s a growing collection … The furniture pieces allow the collection to grow, we have tons of display space now.” More valuable than that dollar figure, they said, is the way the pieces reflect ideas from the local community about how to make the space welcoming — and the unforgettable learning experience for students.
Nora Langill, a third-year student in Sheridan’s furniture program, said a snowshoe the group took through the sugar bush on Anemki Wajiw, or Mount McKay, helped inspire her work on the new bookshelf. “We just let the participants take the reins and we went back to the machinery and made it happen,” she said. “It was all such a collaborative process.”
“It makes me feel like it’s possible in the design world to decolonize design, but it does have to come from these real relationships you form.”
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