Back to the Urban Ecosystems Program

Back to the Urban Ecosystems Program


Thoughts about Indigenizing Urban Ecosystems and Horticulture. In conventional Western educational practices and university structures, eurocentric practices focus on siloed individual disciplines where students are required to learn linearly, excluding hidden, othered voices, knowledge systems, and experiences (Claypool & Preston, 2011; Preston & Claypool, 2013). We are seeking ways to change our rootedness in scientific and materialist traditions that place humans outside nature and see the natural world as other: in hәńq'әmińәm, this embraces the term nə́c̓amət ct (we are one). We are looking at revising the BHS (Urban Ecosystems) program to be more interdisciplinary and wholistic. Meanwhile, every semester, in the first Introductory lecture of every course I give a half-hour PP on the Truth about Canada and Residential Schools.