Kishaadigeh Collaborative Research Centre is a collaborative space designed, driven, and governed according to Indigenous methodologies. The center is for transdisciplinary and creative research, allowing for dynamic and engaging space for workshops, intergenerational gatherings, dialogues, and work. This area contains individual workspaces for tablets or laptops, a family space for babies, mothers, parents and children, it can host community events and gatherings from all disciplines.
The future is rooted in collaboration. Art can be a catalyst to radically transform space and create social change. Ir can rupture places and spark difficult dialogues for generations to come. Decolonial tools allows underrepresented communities to make space for new, creative interventions and ways of knowing.
— Dr. Julie Nagam, Director of the aabijijiwan New Media Lab, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media, Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Winnipeg.