Kitikmeot Food network
imagining new foot network system for food insecurity problems of inuit hamlets
Advanced V Studio: Are Icebergs Free? | Instructors: Leslie Gill, Khoy Nguyen | Collaborator: Colleen Duong
Kitikmeot Food Network is a holistic multi-scalar approach to solving Canadian Inuit’s food insecurity problems.
Research will begin by looking at the whole Inuit Nunangat – the official Inuit territory, then Nunavut Territory of Canada, Kitikmeot Region within Nunavut Territory and eventually zooming into a capital hamlet of Cambridge Bay. Modular interventions will deployed to the satellite hamlets during the beginning phase of the implementation, and then carry over to rest of Kimikmeot, then to Nunavut, then to the rest of Inuit Nunangat.
Phase 1 will involve satellite projects involving deployable-modular systems that provide places for programs involving food economy of local Inuit hamlets of Kitikmeot. Case study will be done in Gjoa Haven, NU.
Phase 2 in the future will involve establishing a permanent regional center in Cambridge Bay (capital of Kitikmeot) that connects with the satellite projects of the local Inuit hamlets. The connection will be made using the pan-Inuit trails (traditional and modern routes of Inuit travels, migration routes and hunting routes) through which internal food network and indigenous knowledge transfer network will be established.
