Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape
A turtle shell–shaped galvanized steel pavilion clad in flat stock bronze now graces University of Toronto’s downtown campus as a reminder of what came before Westerners settled the area. With the Ziibiing Indigenous Landscape, the team at Brook McIllroy worked with local elders, faculty and students on a teaching and learning area that honours the site of Taddle Creek, a stream that ran through the city before it was buried by urban expansion in the 1800s. Indigenous culture is represented throughout the pavilion: A sacred fire burns under an oculus, and constellations are etched into the soffits. A medicine garden of traditional plants lines the walkway, tracing the path of the former creek.
