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Objectives: Considering the cultural differences playing a role in this setup as we have to come to understand them, how do traditional planning strategies match up to the analysis of the local context? What makes them culturally significant or not, and how do these famed documents need to be modified, rewritten, or rejected to be relevant in the context of the studio project.

Deliverables: Diagrams, notes, sketches arranged around the relevant MX terms, and cultural markers. A written statement of 800-1200 words formulating the questions as well as a response. The style is open, from interview to prose or narrative. Include relevant illustrations.

Start: Tuesday, September 29, 14:00 Deadline: Tueday, October 20, 14:00 Evaluation: A3 (individual) 15%

Image above: Horsewip (without lash), inscribed “King 1800.” It is perhaps the oldest preserved ethnographic artefact from the northern plains. James King, a fur trader, was murdered in Saskatchewan in 1801; his unidentified wife is said to have been Blackfoot or Scarcee. She probably made the hide and woolen trade cloth wrist strap, decorated with dyed porcupine quills, while King likely engraved the antler stock. Cat. No. HK 1301, curtesey of the Royal Ontario Museum, photo Brian Boyle. Taken from: Brownstone, A., 2015. War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press.