Tribal center to connect land, community and creativity

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-43).A design proposal was developed for a new tribal center to meet the current and future needs of the Anishinabe community on the Lake Vermilion Reservation, Bois Forte Band of Minnesota Chippewa, in northern Minnesota. At issue in the development of the design were issues of cultural usage of space, cold climate design imperatives, its selection, and programming considerations. Several considerations in the design of the center itself were site specific: a limited building footprint, primacy of view within the center versus climactic considerations, and the provision of access to the center given the steep topography of the land adjacent to the peninsula. Others were less easy defined, but imposed quite specific obligations. Anishinabe, for example, need to have a building in which they are spatially aware of their connection to the greater environment. The final design was sited on a peninsula set aside by the Band for community development and not built upon to date. The peninsula is located within easy walking distance of the public housing area and near to the reservation's best swimming beach. The new tribal center will integrate its future parking facilities with those of a proposed beach park. In addition to the main road, a walking trail will connect the beach and tribal center to the housing area. A secondary ceremonial road will preserve the established ritual of burial by connecting the new center to the tribal gravesites. The center itself houses a community hall for festival gathering and dancing, an auditorium for town meetings, a medical clinic for visiting physicians, a small library and student study space, a communal kitchen and dining area, and tribal offices.by Denise Pieratos.M.Arch

Politiques documentaires: le cas du SIDoS du Muséum d'histoire naturelle

Le présent travail a été réalisé pour le Secteur d’Information Documentaire Spécialisé (ou SIDoS) du Muséum d’histoire naturelle et Musée d’histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève. Sa politique de développement, datant de 2010, a été jugée en partie obsolète et doit faire l’objet d’une mise à jour partielle pour continuer à assurer une bonne gestion des collections. Ce mandat a été effectué en deux grandes parties. Tout d’abord, il a fallu effectuer une revue de la littérature en rapport avec les politiques documentaires de bibliothèques spécialisées ou grand public sur le concept, la terminologie et l’historique. Ensuite, un état de l’art a été effectué sur les politiques en bibliothèques de musées principalement. Cela nous a permis de rendre compte de l’utilisation qui est faite des politiques et de la manière dont elles sont rédigées. Puis, la deuxième partie a consisté en l’analyse de la politique de développement du SIDoS, de ses forces, faiblesses et utilisation principalement par le biais d’entretiens semi-directifs des collaborateurs. En plus des mises à jour à effectuer, il a fallu intégrer de nouvelles parties concernant l’acquisition de ressources électroniques, le désherbage et le Projet Scientifique et Culturel 2020 (projet stratégique visant à dynamiser le Muséum d’histoire naturelle et le Musée d’histoire des sciences de Genève d’ici l’horizon 2020). Le résultat final qui découle de ce travail est une proposition d’évolution de la politique de développement qui devient une politique documentaire, accompagnée de quelques pistes de réflexion pour aller plus loin. Plus généralement, une analyse de la littérature professionnelle et de quelques cas nous a permis de comprendre que les politiques ne sont que peu uniformisées, que ce soit au niveau de la terminologie, des indicateurs, des contenus ou des procédés, ce qui constitue un défi important à relever à l’avenir

Developing Food Tourism Networks: A Practical Manual

There is no one‘right’way to collaborate to develop food tourism but the aim of this manual is to provide you with advice on good practice illustrated by case studies from home and abroad. The advice provided is based on research with three committees based in Ireland who were directly or peripherally involved in developing food tourism, as well as decades of research on collaboration, networks, tourism and food tourism. Throughout the manual are exercises which will help apply this advice to your region and circumstances, key facts which provide evidenced based research information and insights from members of the three committees. You are also pointed towards various websites which provide further information on various aspects of food tourism

An Exploration of the Motivations Behind Committee Membership in Food Networks

Food Tourism has been recognised as a fast growing niche area where Ireland can gain competitive advantage. In recognition of the importance of collaboration among diverse stakeholders in the development of food tourism, networks have been identified as essential. This article presents findings from research conducted with three networks and reveals the motivations for committee membership. Data was gathered in 2012 through participant observation and interviews with steering committee members on three food networks using an action research approach. A framework for examining motivations for collaboration is offered in this article which will contribute to effective network management. Motivations are aligned on a spectrum with individualistic motivations on one end and altruistic motivations on the other. Individuals expressing motives for committee membership at the altruistic end of the spectrum tended to focus on the benefits to the community as a whole and to all the businesses involved in network initiatives. At the individualistic end of the spectrum, personal or organisational gains are the motivators for collaboration. The majority of participants were motivated to become involved by recognising the potential benefits to others in the region as well as the personal benefits that could be gained from committee membership. The desire and ability of individuals to volunteer for committee membership was also influenced by contextual factors in the social and business environment within which they operated. Understanding that within a committee, all committee members have their own, possibly different motivations for participation and that there are contextual elements that encourage or prevent them from acting on these motivations, will allow for more effective collaboration and will contribute to the sustainability of networks

Serving Us Rights: Securing the Right to Food in Canada

In recent decades, Canada has consistently failed to uphold basic human rights, including the right to food. This has caused widespread and persistent household food insecurity (HFI) which has become a serious, albeit overlooked, public health concern. Working from a political economic perspective, this article situates HFI within the context of the poverty resulting from neoliberal “rollbacks” to the welfare state. The majority of community and policy responses to HFI focus on the production or redistribution of food, which misses the underlying issue of inadequate income. These responses may even perpetuate food insecurity by offloading safety net functions onto corporations and communities that cannot compensate for welfare programs. In order to strengthen income-based responses to food insecurity, we recommend policy interventions under the “right to food” framework, which places primary responsibility on the state. But unlike traditionally legal conceptions of the right to food, we emphasize its utility as a tool for mobilizing civil society, which is a powerful yet underutilized source of accountability to state obligations. This approach therefore combines political action with policymaking, and civil society with senior governments, in the collective realization of the right to food