West Coast Vancouver Island Lighthouse Reclamation Project, 2021
CSM Spatial Design Foundation
Working with First Nations’ visual cues, materials, and design values, replace colonially symbolic lighthouses to convey First Nations’ influence, Canadian cultural importance, and rightful ownership of territory.
The W.C.V.I Lighthouse project was a response to an overarching ‘Synthesis’ brief, the tried and true design school assignment of merging two past works into something new. I had just finished my work on the Fort Ward Bunker:Shrine project, and knew I wanted to center in on a site’s cultural heritage, and Beacons had been well received earlier for its new take on way-finding and juxtaposition with site. Using those two as a starting point, this project unfolded.