Towards Home: Inuit & Smi Placemaking (Paperback)

Joar Nango

ISBN 10: 9493246256 / ISBN 13: 9789493246256

Published by Valiz, Amsterdam, 2024

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Paperback. Design and building concepts that pay respect to the land and empower Indigenous communities across the Northern HemispherePublished with Canadian Centre for Architecture/Mondo Books.An Indigenous-led publication, Towards Home explores how Inuit, Sami and other communities across the Arctic are creating self-determined spaces. This research project, led by Indigenous and settler coeditors, is titled after the phrases angirramut in Inuktitut, or ruovttu guvlui in Sami, which can be translated as "towards home." To move towards home is to reflect on where northern Indigenous people find home, on what their connections to their land means and on what these relationships could look like into the future. Framed by these three concepts--Home, Land and Future--the book contains essays, artworks, photographs and personal narratives that express Indigenous notions of home, land, kinship, design and memory. The project emphasizes caring for and living on the land as a way of being, and celebrates practices of space-making and place-making that empower Indigenous communities. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Towards Home: Inuit & Smi Placemaking (Paperback)
• Publisher: Valiz, Amsterdam
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9493246256
• ISBN 13: 9789493246256
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Design and building concepts that pay respect to the land and empower Indigenous communities across the Northern Hemisphere

Published with Canadian Centre for Architecture/Mondo Books.

An Indigenous-led publication, Towards Home explores how Inuit, Sámi and other communities across the Arctic are creating self-determined spaces. This research project, led by Indigenous and settler coeditors, is titled after the phrases angirramut in Inuktitut, or ruovttu guvlui in Sámi, which can be translated as “towards home.” To move towards home is to reflect on where northern Indigenous people find home, on what their connections to their land means and on what these relationships could look like into the future. Framed by these three concepts―Home, Land and Future―the book contains essays, artworks, photographs and personal narratives that express Indigenous notions of home, land, kinship, design and memory. The project emphasizes caring for and living on the land as a way of being, and celebrates practices of space-making and place-making that empower Indigenous communities.