One House, Many Nations: EDIT Toronto 

    One House, Many Nations: EDIT Toronto

    One House Many Nations: Hacking Colonial Systems of Dominance Through Community-based Collaboration

    One House Many Nations (OHMN) started as an Idle No More campaign to raise awareness about, and provide solutions to, the housing crisis for Indigenous peoples in Canada. In its first few months, OHMN launched an educational campaign to pressure all levels of government and challenge Canadians to take action. OHMN brought together builders, architects, and community members to fund and construct one house. Over the past three years, the ideas embodied in the OHMN movement have been branching and evolving at the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. What started out as one house in Big River, Saskatchewan, is transforming into a community village design project that is leveraging the need to address the housing crisis to develop systems to hack the same colonial systems that make and keep Indigenous people homeless. This work is focused on using housing to build and share community knowledge, generate local economies, and develop architectures that enhance the health of the land.

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