Kinship Table : la taab di li vwaazayn
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
data provider: DSpace
alternative: La taab di li vwaazayn
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Adams, Robyn
issued: 2025-05-23T15:01:53Z
issued: 2025-05
description: In representations of Métis architecture across Turtle Island, the discourse is often reduced to a handful of iconic symbols: the Red River framed home specifically with dovetail joinery, the Métis sash, and the Red River cart. All incredibly thoughtful and intricate bodies of work and knowledge, however, this thesis is built within the context of contributing to that growing body of architectural thought by offering another seat at the table, one rooted in kinship, story, and worldbuilding. Divided into four sections, this work builds an architecture of kinship, where form, craft, and story pass across geographies, time and generations. The chapter Grandfather Stories highlights historical Red River construction built between the 1860s and 1940s, featuring three variations of joinery techniques that operate as utilitarian forms, but also as fantastical expressions of the Michif everyday. Grandmother Stories features grandmother pieces, historic Red River beadwork, that highlight land-based knowledge, maps teachings, kinship, memory, and land, presenting a beadwork map as both record and a design tool. The Children Stories chapter engages with Michif folklore beings and teachings from mermaids to monsters that occupy both the real and mythological cultural landscape of the Michif. The final chapter, Kinship Table, la taab di li vwaazayn, begins to worldbuild from this research and folklore stories, inviting them to shape space through a fantasy VR video game that positions worldbuilding as a method of Indigenous Architecture. Rather than an escape, fantasy becomes a return; an immersive way to design with land, story, spirit, and kin. This work does not aim to define Indigenous architecture, but rather to offer the Kinship Table to its abundance.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/91177
note: KinshipTablela taab di li vwaazaynTheRobyn AdamsBFA honoursUniversity of Manitoba, 2020Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture in The Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Architecture ProgramCommittee Chair: Tania Gutiérrez-MonroyCommittee Members: Shawn Bailey, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Narita Reyes Ico“To paint the world, is to believe in it.”1- Billy-Ray Belcourtrobynadams.caCopyright © May 2025 by Robyn AdamsANAVAAN FRONT MATTERThe worldbuilding and dreaming I am able to envision in this work is only possible because of the kitchen tables I’ve had the privilege to sit at, and the resilience my relatives had to protect our family’s stories, rights and land. Maarsii,to my partner Kevin, my family, and friends.to my mentors over the past 4 years,Rana Abughannam, Goli Jalali, Joanne Gates. Rafico Ruiz, Isadora Chicoine-Marinier, Ella den Elzen through the CCA. Tiffany Shaw, Rachelle Lemieux and Jennifer Smith through the Métis community. Jennifer Cutbill and Kristina Zalite, through architecture practice.And friends,Narita, Iris, Odessa and Sid who helped strengthen this work through the best kind of friendship. Brent, Julien and Tilde for contributing heartwork through song, access and language.Bruis, Naomi, Nicole, and Reanna for inspiring and encouraging me along the way.And of course thank-you to my committee, Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, Shawn Bailey, Billy-Ray Belcourt and Narita Reyes Ico. Maarsii for helping me pull-in a million stretched out thoughts.vi viiTania Gutiérrez-Monroy, chairTANIA GUTIÉRREZ-MONROY is an architectural historian who studies architecture as a material and signifying practice that spatializes colonial and patriarchal forces as well as resistance mechanisms. Her research focuses on the ways in which different categories of identity intersect, are negotiated in, and transform space. Thematically, her work spans hist…
has type: Graduating Project
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0448938
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. ARCH_V 549
subject: Indigenous Architecture
subject: Worldbuilding
subject: Joy
subject: Fantasy
subject: Métis Architecture
subject: Métis Studies
subject: Michif Folklore
subject: Métis Research Methodologies
subject: Indigenous Pedagogy
subject: Indigenous Landscape Architecture
subject: Video Game Design
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91177