We develop collaborative art, design and educational projects with communities and grassroots organizations through:
>>> Critical Spatial Practice. We engage with our surroundings with intention, encouraging ways to reimagine and co-create more just environments by centering equity, community well-being, and inspiring social responsibility.
>>> Collective Creation. We are building a community of practice across art, design, and architecture, weaving together diverse disciplines like cartography, music, writing, film, gardening, dance, coding, and fabrication.
>>> Learning Together. We uphold transformative pedagogies, where everyone actively participates in their educational experience. We situate our knowledge and practice in relation to the personal, collective, social, political and ecological contexts that surround us.
Nam Hoang seeks to create more meaningful community participation and advocacy in issues of architecture and urban futures. He is the co-founder of Makeshift Collective, as well as a systemic designer and foresight practitioner.
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Lily Jeon takes playful approaches to empowerment, as an empathic, tactile, creative facilitator. They seek to learn + lead by example, and to enact what they advocate; thriving together with the earth and all its inhabitants.
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Dana Salama blends her curiosities towards oral history, craft, and site analysis, into a practice of multidisciplinary work that includes building/directing @countermap.land. She is an architectural designer/ researcher/ educator with a background in adaptive reuse, capacity-building work, and co-design.
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Dana Prieto is guided by a careful attention to the ground in her site-responsive work, studying our deep relations with colonial infrastructures. She is an artist, educator and researcher based in Tkaronto. Dana brings an extensive experience in art education within formal and informal settings, with a focus in critical pedagogies.
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Reza Nik seeks to disrupt the traditional architectural processes and institutions through his pedagogy, practice & community building. His research examines a deeper dialogue between the socio-political nuances of the urban context and playful experimentation. He is the founding director of @sheeep.studio, a licensed architect, artist and an educator.