In their third year, Sheridan Craft and Design Furniture students participate in a capstone community project that is organized and facilitated by Codesign. This year, students designed and fabricated furniture for a “Community Living Room” within the Small Arms Building, a heritage building re-imagined as a creative hub for the intersection of the arts, culture and heritage, environmental sciences and technology. Three indigenous students also worked alongside the furniture students for the entire project as part of the Small Arms Society’s efforts to include Indigenous voices in the development of this new community space. The Small Arms Building, located at the eastern border of the Mississauga waterfront, sits on the territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, the traditional homeland of the Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee nations. In 1940, the site became a large munitions plant manufacturing rifles and small arms for the Canadian Army through the Second World... Read More
In their third year, Sheridan Craft and Design Furniture students participate in a capstone community project that is organized and facilitated by Codesign. This year, students designed and fabricated furniture for a “Community Living Room” within the Small Arms Building, a heritage building re-imagined as a creative hub for the intersection of the arts, culture and heritage, environmental sciences and technology. Three indigenous students also worked alongside the furniture students for the entire project as part of the Small Arms Society’s efforts to include Indigenous voices in the development of this new community space. The Small Arms Building, located at the eastern border of the Mississauga waterfront, sits on the territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, the traditional homeland of the Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee nations. In 1940, the site became a large munitions plant manufacturing rifles and small arms for the Canadian Army through the Second World... Read More