Location: Laurentian Main campus, room C-112

1.5 ConEd Learning Hours

1.5 AIA LU

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Attendees will gain knowledge and sensitivity to engagement with First Nations design process and culture through a community food-processing centre charrette workshop in the context of the Oneida Nation.

The course is presented in three parts:

1.  Instructors discuss essential First Nations visual identity, culture, spirit, and sense of place.

2. The instructors share programming for an organic food-processing centre with community kitchen(s). The building program includes site location, building functions, and cultural context. The instructors provide documents for a shell building as context for the building design problem.

3. The participants prepare charette designs informed by the building program. Participants will have the option to present their designs to the class.
   

To immerse the participants in Oneida culture in a dignified manner, the session opens with a live video benediction from an Oneida tribal representative; powwow dancing and music will play on video during the design exercise charrette. Further, the final designs of the Charrette will be donated to Oneida Thames Ontario at the approval of individual participants.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the essence of First Nations culture, community, and worldview, and gain cultural awareness and sensitivity to diverse Indigenous communities.
2. Gain practical experience in conceptual and schematic building design.
3. Learn building design in the unique context of First Nations culture and sense of place.
4. Complete a rapid design charrette as a means of collaborative participant discussion.

Joel Berman, ALA, NCARB, is the founder and president of Berman Architecture, a Chicago design firm specializing in hospitality, adaptive reuse, food production, and residential development. Project work includes an award-winning historic preservation renovation of a 1920s White Castle building, conversion of a 1906 Chicago fire station into a major video production and post edit facility, and design of branded restaurant and retail prototypes with locations around the US. Joel has expertise designing food-focused projects—private event spaces, restaurants, commercial kitchens, commercial bakeries and breweries, and ghost kitchens. He is a registered architect, and a member of the Association of Licensed Architects. Joel has NCARB certification and is designated by the City of Chicago as a Self-Certified Architect. Joel is a licensed architect in multiple U.S. states.

Dr. Joanie Buckley, DBA, MIB, is an Oneida Nation Tribal Member, bridges Indigenous North American and Western cultures. Her roles have included Division Director of Internal Services at the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin (with leadership responsibilities to the departments of technology, media, tourism, grants, and food systems) as well as Director of Tribal Enterprises/Businesses (including casino, agriculture, construction, C-stores, hotel, and pottery) for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Colorado. She has been engaged with indigenous non-profits and U.S. federal government agencies planning various community development initiatives. Previous to her work with Indigenous Nations, Joanie was engaged in architecture as Vice President Marketing for HOK Architects in its Florida office, focused on corporate and judicial architecture. As a team member of a large judicial project for the Venezuelan government supported by the World Bank, Joanie utilized her native Spanish language for presentations of design criteria, and for a forum on judicial designs. She currently teaches various subjects for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Business School.