THIS IS NOT A DESIGN ; A PIECE OF FOR CONTEXT. THIS IS INTENDED AS A SMALL PIECE THE FIGHT FOR INDIGENOUS DESIGN REFRAMED VISUALIZING
? THE HISTORIES THAT CREATED THE WORLD WE NOW INHABIT. FOR THESE QUESTIONS CANNOT BE ANSWERED BY AROUND BY THE DARK HISTORY ECIDED GOAL OF OF WHAT THAT COULD LOOK
OF SPECULATIVE VISIONING THROUGH THE FOR STARTING CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THE LAND COULD LOOK LIKE IN AN URBAN PIECE OF A MUCH LARGER CONVERSATION INDIGENOUS RIGHTS THINKING REFRAMED FROM A TOP-DOWN APPROACH VISUALIZING A FUTURE OF RECLAMATION, HISTORIES OF THESE LANDS ARE THE STORIES INHABIT. FOR OUR FUTURE ANCESTORS? BY DESIGN, NOR DOES THIS PROJECT SEEK TO AROUND THE WORLD HAVE HISTORY OF COLONIZATION FOR CENTURIES, AND A ECIDED ONLY BY RETURNING THAT AGENCY THIS PROJECT - TO PROVIDE ONE VISION LIKE, NOT WHAT IT SHOULD
WETLAND BARTON WOODS
NORTHGATE STATION
NORTH SEATTLE COLLEGE
NORTH SEATTLE COLLEGE
EXPANDED WETLAND COMMUNITY CENTER
PIPE DRAIN TO THORNTON CREEK
REMOVE PARKING DAYLIGHT THORNTON CREEK
REESTABLISH UPLAND PRARIE
IMAGINE FUTURE WITHOUT I-5
NORTHGATE STATION
BARTON WOODS
MATTHEWS BEACH IS ON THE SITE OF A FORMER LONGHOUSE VILLAGE KNOWN AS “DUHW-HOO-BUD” OR THE SILENCED PLACE. THE VILLAGE WAS THE HOME OF THE tu-oh-beh-DAHBSH PEOPLE WHOS SEASONAL MIGRATION PATTERNS TIED THEM DIRECTLY TO WHAT IS NOW NORTHGATE. SPENDING THE SUMMER MONTHS IN NORTHGATE, THEY MIGRATED BACK DOWN TO THEIR PERMANENT VILLAGE HERE DURING THE WINTER. THE SITE WAS HOME TO ONE OR TWO LONGHOUSES WHICH SERVED MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS, AS A DWELLING AND A A PLACE FOR SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AMONGST OTHER USES. THE VILLAGE SAT AT THE MOUTH OF THORNTON CREEK, WHICH EXISTED TO THEM AS A TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR AND SOURCE OF RESOURCES, BUT ALSO WAS DEEPLY TIED TO THEIR COSMOLOGY. THORNTON CREEK IS HEAVILY TIED TO THE THUNDERBIRD, A MYTHICAL CREATURE WHO HUNTED WHALES AND WAS REGARDED AS A POWERFUL BEING WHO’S THREE TAIL FEATHERS REPRESENTED THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.
A PAVED OVER PRESENTAN IMAGINED
PROPOSED IS A DUHW-HOO-BUD OF THE FUTURE - A FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS ECOSYSTEMS THAT PAYS HOMAGE TO ITS DEEP HISTORY AND SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE. ALONG WITH THE REESTABLISHMENT OF THE FRESHWATER WETLANDS AT THE MOUTH OF THE CREEK, A MONUMENT TO THE PEOPLE WHO ONCE CALLED THIS PLACE HOME STANDS AT THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF A LONGHOUSE. WE CANNOT SIMPLY TAKE THE TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE COAST SALISH PEOPLE, WE MUST CARVE SPACE INTO OUR URBAN ENVIRONMENT THAT REINDIGENIZES THE LAND.
