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Funding Sovereignty: Lessons from the IHII Accelerator Funding Pilot Project

This webinar was part of the RAIC 2021 Virtual Conference on Architecture听and the RAIC Internation and Indigenous Architecture and Design Symposium

Topics:听Indigenous听 Voices, Architecture Design

Length:听1 hour |听What's Included:听Video, Quiz, and Certificate of Completion听

This webinar is available to stream!听

Making Room for New Indigenous Voices on the Leading Edge of Architecture Practice

This presentation will review the successes and lessons from a new approach to funding, represented by a听funding pilot project. IHII (Indigenous Homes Innovation Initiative) is a five-year $36 million federal program听funded by Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Infrastructure Canada, delivered in partnership with the听Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO). We will explore issues of funding听sovereignty, Indigenous agency, and a proactive vs. reactive method of funding capital projects by and for听Indigenous peoples.听

A majority of Indigenous architecture is federally funded, therefore policy decisions, application protocols,听and selection criteria used to fund on-reserve and Indigenous projects are crucial to Indigenous peoples鈥櫶�sovereignty and our ability to impact our own built environments. Wanda Dalla Costa and Eladia Smoke听are two 鈥淢entors鈥� from a pool of Indigenous architects who were asked to support the implementation of听projects funded under IHII Accelerator. In this unprecedented approach to funding听 ndigenous housing in听Canada, ISC reached out to Indigenous individuals and entities from across the country to invite innovative听ideas for housing initiatives. Particularly noteworthy, the call was open-ended and included project types听that may otherwise not fall into听 historically established funding categories.听

In an Indigenous-led approach, 24 projects were selected from 342 respondents by a committee of Indigenous听housing experts, and funding administered by an Indigenous-led entity, CANDO. Indigenous architects were听involved from inception in a mentorship role to help advocate for and support innovators, to move projects听toward implementation. Entrusting Indigenous peoples to determine funding priorities and protocols from听policy inception to project implementation is a necessary foundation to establish a built environment听 that听supports Indigenous sovereignty, responds to the TRC Calls to Action, and begins to address the priorities听of UNDRIP. Funding reform is the first step to confront systemic racism and decolonize the process of听undertaking capital projects by and for Indigenous peoples. This is our experience with one of the first听funding structures ever to attempt this shift.

Subject Matter Experts

Eladia Smoke,听OAA, OAQ, MAA, M.Arch., B.Env.Des., LEED脗庐A.P. /听Principal Architect, Smoke Architecture Inc., Laurentian University, RAIC ITF

Wanda Dalla Costa,听Masters of Architecture, AIA, OAA, AAA, SAA, LEED A.P. /听Institute Professor (ASU); Principal (Tawaw Architecture Collective)