The Land as Archive: Community Mapping

June 26, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Aire Desjardins of the Great Hall.
Discussion in English (French translation available).

Take part in writing the living history of the Mitis region! Led by guest researchers exploring the Mitis River landscape, this participatory workshop invites you to collaboratively map how people have lived, worked, and settled in this area—through multiple perspectives.

Following a brief overview of land occupation and stewardship (revealed through vegetation patterns, soil profiles, settlement forms, and place names), community members and visitors to the Reford Gardens will be invited to translate collective memories and local knowledge into a shared cartographic narrative. Contribute familiar names, mark meaningful places, and describe notable landscape features to enrich the collective archive of the region.

Enjoy an evening of conversation and creative mapping, accompanied by refreshments inspired by the local territory.

This event is part of River, Shore, Territory: Ecological Futures at the Reford Gardens, the third and final year of a project led by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in collaboration with the Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens, under the CCA Master’s Student Program.

Free for members of the Friends of the Reford Gardens. Garden admission will be free from 4 p.m. on June 26 for event participants.

Organized by: Amra Alagic, Hannah Whitlaw, and Hiba Zubairi.