Explore where you fit
into Spatial Agency
Grey & Ivy are looking at education and training in a completely new way. We are connecting high levels of experience and research directly with easily accessible and engaging learning techniques that allow youth to explore their inner creativity.
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Grey & Ivy is a multi-disciplinary collective of architects, tech designers, researchers, teachers, and more. Through our Design-Build educational programs and research, we have developed a strategy to facilitate spatial agency to communities around the world.
In our Design-Build educational and consultation workshops, we’ve clearly seen how much an individual’s confidence, motivation and career opportunities can grow from the act of making, collaborating with others, and building with your own hands.
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Good quality, affordable, and decent housing is critically unaccessible throughout Canada, more so for our First Nations communities. Grey & Ivy is committed to addressing the housing crisis and the systematic problems contributing to it. Working side by side with our communities to overcome these issues by building job awareness, access to education and training, building strong connections with the land and engaging communities.
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Grey & Ivy Inc. utilizes the term ‘Spatial Agency’ to describe the holistic ecosystem of solutions that facilitate the empowerment of individuals and communities.
Facilitating spatial agency ranges from the simple act of making things with your hands to wide ranging infrastructural developments.
Spatial Agency
Spatial
A broad term for occupying ‘space’ or our ‘environments’ - our built environments, our natural environments, our personal environments, our digital environments.
Agency
As associated with power or the ability to affect change - to produce an effect
Having Spatial Agency means you have the ability to affect change over those environments
Our Structure
We have developed, tested, and implemented a series of nested services to facilitate Spatial Agency. At the root of everything is our design-build curriculum which introduces participants to the theoretical, digital, and physical tools needed to conceptualize and execute a design-build project. Our structure starts with a Knowledge Centre that hosts pilot projects and workshops which creates reactions.
Knowledge Centres
Providing a place for people to learn new skills, share knowledge, tell stories, and grow is central to our goal of facilitating Spatial Agency. At its core, a Knowledge Centre is a home for tools and a place for people to gather. The type of tools depends on the immediate needs in the community, but a Knowledge Centre is meant to grow as a community grows. A Knowledge Centre can start anywhere, at any scale, utilizing only what is available to a community.
Find out if a Knowledge Centre is near you to join pilot project or workshop.
Pilot Projects & Workshops
Each workshop has unique environments, group sizes and ages, they all have common outcomes determined by the participants, for the participants!
Each design-build workshop is guided by the chosen modules identified within the Grey & Ivy curriculum. Depending on the desired outcomes, these workshops can adapt and adjust to meet the needs of any community or group.
From these design-build workshops reactions are created! To view past reactions click below.
Pilot Projects
Package Service Offerings
Grey & Ivy offers a variety of package services, ranging from our base-level community consultation and engagement to long-term community visioning and partnerships. Together, we can explore and determine which pathway works best for you!
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Meet and build relationship with the community (Youth Group, Students, Local Organizations, First Nations Community, etc.).
What’s involved:
• Identify the community’s ‘story’ that reveals their needs.
• Define an implementation strategy that responds to the needs of the community.
• Establish a feasibility study based on implementation strategy.
• Collaboration with Grounded Architecture.
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Three types of community workshops to choose from depending on your timeline. These workshops will introduce and guide through basic to advanced processes of design-build and discuss related career pathways.
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Utilize information gathered during Community Consultation and/or Design-Build Workshops to design a Knowledge Centre in collaboration with Grounded Architecture and Grey & Ivy.
Deliverable outcome:
The Knowledge Centre will continue to involve and be shaped by the community throughout the design and construction process with a resulting fully functioning facility.
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Furthering partnership with the community
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Are you are interested in starting a pilot project in your community or becoming a partner? If yes we’d love to hear from you!