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Nurture, Heal, Feast : Repeat Eisenberg, Benjamin

Abstract

Around the world today, 7 million coastal Indigenous peoples consume 15 times more seafoods than nonindigenous people in the same country. With continued pollution, overfishing, and limiting access to Indigenous coastal foods, Indigenous coastal communities will be disproportionately affected by sea level rise and climate change. Before colonization however, Indigenous peoples have not only been living with, but nurturing coastal lands and waters since time immemorial so that both people and ecosystems thrive. In working with the səlililw̓ ̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nation of what is now called the British Columbia coastline, we strive to better understand how Indigenous Ecological Knowledge of the British Columbia coastline can be paired with adaptive technology in a way that helps mitigate the effects of climate change on the səlililw̓ ̓ətaʔɬ Nation’s shoreline? How can this pairing help to providing a stable food source and space for intergenerational knowledge sharing? Through alternative forms of landscape architectural representation, this project presents a vision through Virtual Reality where coastal adaptation and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge are woven together so future foodscapes of the British Columbia coastline, and beyond, can be experienced today.

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Title
Nurture, Heal, Feast : Repeat
Alternate Title
Climate Change, Food Security, and Indigenous Knowledge on the səlililw̓ ̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation Reserve Shoreline.
Creator
Eisenberg, Benjamin
Publisher
Benjamin Eisenberg
Date Issued
2022-05-31
Description
Around the world today, 7 million coastal Indigenous peoples consume 15 times more seafoods than nonindigenous people in the same country. With continued pollution, overfishing, and limiting access to Indigenous coastal foods, Indigenous coastal communities will be disproportionately affected by sea level rise and climate change. Before colonization however, Indigenous peoples have not only been living with, but nurturing coastal lands and waters since time immemorial so that both people and ecosystems thrive. In working with the səlililw̓ ̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nation of what is now called the British Columbia coastline, we strive to better understand how Indigenous Ecological Knowledge of the British Columbia coastline can be paired with adaptive technology in a way that helps mitigate the effects of climate change on the səlililw̓ ̓ətaʔɬ Nation’s shoreline? How can this pairing help to providing a stable food source and space for intergenerational knowledge sharing? Through alternative forms of landscape architectural representation, this project presents a vision through Virtual Reality where coastal adaptation and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge are woven together so future foodscapes of the British Columbia coastline, and beyond, can be experienced today.
Subject
Climate Change; Sea Level Rise; Virtual Reality; Coastal Adaptation; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Indigenous Science; Eco-Cultural Restoration; səlilwət (Burrard Inlet)
Geographic Location
Burrard Inlet (B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. LARC 598
Date Available
2022-06-22
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0415373
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81787
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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