001 // GroundworkFacilitators: Dana Prieto, Dana Salama

May 12, 2024
12 - 4pm ET
at BAAA! (300 Campbell Ave, Unit 114) A one-day workshop that introduces critical architectural and artistic processes to interpret sites, building awareness of human and more-than-human worlds.

Departing from conventional site analysis, the workshop will be anchored in critical mapping, art installation, and other ethical spatial and material practices in order to reflect on SHEEEPschool’s grounds and immediate surroundings.

We will inquire on ways of decentering colonial technologies such as zoning maps and satellite data, conducting site research that is thick with history, narrative, sensory experience, and critical thinking. 

Workshop participants will be introduced to:

  1. Critical cartographic and archiving methodologies;
  2. Sourcing and non-extractive considerations for art, material, and spatial practices;
  3. Experimental material research practices. 


NOTE: All materials are included in this workshop. Light snacks will be provided. 

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 Dana Prieto is an Argentine-Canadian artist, educator and researcher based in T’karonto. Her site-responsive work examines our deep relations with colonial structures and infrastructures through a careful attention to the ground, and the different forms of living and dying within it. Dana holds a Master of Visual Studies from University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University. Her work has been presented in national and international galleries, public spaces and informal cultural venues.

Dana Salama is a designer/ researcher/ educator based out of T’karonto and Cairo with a background in architecture (specifically adaptive reuse and vernacular construction), critical heritage practice, and exhibition design. Her work is interested in co-design and the role of public memory in the built environment. She is building and directing @countermap.land, a non-profit and digital platform that is exploring relationships between heritage and power through research, public workshops, and commissions. Dana is a sessional lecturer at John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at The University of Toronto and at OCADU. Her upcoming PhD research is focussed on thick site analysis at the scales of geopolitical networks and local histories.



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