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Designed for the Anishinaabe-led organization whose name means “together,” the Kina8at Cultural Centre in La Conception, Quebec, by Montreal-based firm KANVA, takes its form from the turtle — a symbol of wisdom, life and the feminine in Anishinaabe cosmology. A series of prefabricated timber pavilions unfolds around a central courtyard along a continuous outdoor path, where the circulation itself is the curriculum: Clockwise movement echoes the medicine wheel, interpretive trails thread through forest, and building and land refuse easy separation. The program (museum, gallery, restaurant, multifunction hall, healing spaces) is designed to serve both Indigenous communities and intercultural exchange. A geothermal system and a low-impact site strategy keep the ecological footprint as considered as the cultural one.