In contrast to modern and colonial architectures, Anishinaabe building practices and the worldviews they embody represent a fundamentally different approach to design. The Traditional Ecological Knowledge systems indigenous to the Great Lakes challenge the common understanding of objects and buildings as fixed or stable, instead conceptualizing them as always in flux, and therefore impermanent. This lecture traces these ideas through recent work at the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School in Michigan and projects designed and built in northern hardwood forests over the past five years.

Johe Architecture Lecture Series: Imaginaries
Supported by the Herbert W. and Susan Johe Lecture and Exhibition Fund