HOOP Dance Indigenous Gathering Place
Hamilton, Ontario
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CASE STUDY
Initial Research by: Evan McPherson
Edited by: Samantha Miller & Nicole Brekelmans
Case study compiled in 2019
Project: HOOP Dance Indigenous Gathering Place
Type of Urban Strategy: Indigenous
Type of Project: Indigenous Resurgence
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Date Designed/Planned: 2015-2016
Construction Completed: 2016
Designer: Brook McIlroy
Located on Mohawk College campus, the HOOP Dance Gathering Place demonstrates how Western institutions are beginning to invest and recognize the importance of Indigenous placemaking and pedagogy in an academic setting. The project was developed through a collaborative community consultation process, driven between faculty, students, Indigenous students and elders from Six Nations First Nation and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation Communities. Brook McIlroy worked with these stakeholders to develop a holistic design with intended efforts to integrate site context and surrounding geographies.


