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Presenter(s)
Deana Dartt, Principal, Live Oak Consulting
Isaac Marshall, Principal, AldrichPears
Moderator
Dakota Keene, Partner/Landscape Architect, Mithun

 

Indigenous communities do not conceptualize knowledge, story, or experience as confined within museum walls. Land, movement, arrival, and narrative are interconnected and inseparable. Yet many museums remain grounded in a Western model that centers the building as object. This session explores how Indigenous-led approaches can support the decolonization of museum environments, using project precedents and academic research to share strategies for rethinking arrival, orientation, and site in both new and existing institutions to support more meaningful and culturally grounded visitor experiences.