{"id":171,"date":"2026-06-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/uea-project-lab-uncovering-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:51:15","slug":"uea-project-lab-uncovering-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/uea-project-lab-uncovering-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"UEA Project Lab: Uncovering the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At June&#8217;s <i>Culture in Place<\/i> public Symposium, the team premiered <i>Uncovering the Ground<\/i> \u2014 a short film grown out of a Project Lab built on one question: how can Indigenous knowledge shape the way we plan, design, and build our cities?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"video wrapper reveal-fx reveal-fx--translate-up\">\n    <div class=\"video-frame\">\n        <iframe\n            src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1205672030\"\n            title=\"Video player\"\n            loading=\"lazy\"\n            allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"\n            allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Lab starts with listening \u2014 to land, to story, to community \u2014 and treats every building as part of a longer narrative, not an isolated structure. It&#8217;s an approach that holds economic realities and cultural memory in the same hand, working toward a framework for development rooted in place, memory, and reconciliation in the urban realm.<\/p><p>Developed in partnership with the Central City Foundation around the Abbott Mansion project in the Downtown Eastside, the Lab produced two things: a prototype layered cultural mapping system, and the film that debuted at the Symposium on June 11th.<\/p><p>Thank you again to Jennifer Johnstone, President &amp; CEO of Central City Foundation for her vision and support throughout this amazing journey.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Our UEA Project Lab team:<\/strong><br \/>UEA Member: Taizo Yamamoto, Yamamoto Architecture<br \/>UEA Member: Cory Douglas, Modern Formline<br \/>UEA Member: Shanti Williamson, Modern Formline<br \/>UEA Member: Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Ginger Gosnell-Myers<br \/>Collaborator: Jennifer Johnstone, Central City Foundation<br \/>UEA Member: Ryan Savella, Arcade Original<br \/>UEA Member: Michael Menten, Bouva Media<br \/>UEA Member: Geoff Hunt, Tiny Vikings<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-wrapper media-wrapper--2:1\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeagencycreative.com\/images\/_resizeFitLargeRectangle\/260611_UEA-Symposium-D2_Albert-Law-5560.jpg\" data-modal-src=\"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260611_UEA-Symposium-D2_Albert-Law-5560-scaled.jpg\" class=\"width-100%\">\n\t\t<figcaption class=\"sr-only js-exp-gallery__caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&lt;div class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;1\/3&lt;\/div&gt;\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-wrapper media-wrapper--2:1\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeagencycreative.com\/images\/_resizeFitLargeRectangle\/Screenshot-2026-07-10-at-8.37.25-AM.png\" data-modal-src=\"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-07-10-at-8.37.25-AM-scaled.png\" class=\"width-100%\">\n\t\t<figcaption class=\"sr-only js-exp-gallery__caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&lt;div class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;2\/3&lt;\/div&gt;\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-wrapper media-wrapper--2:1\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeagencycreative.com\/images\/_resizeFitLargeRectangle\/Screenshot-2026-07-10-at-8.41.56-AM.png\" data-modal-src=\"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-07-10-at-8.41.56-AM-scaled.png\" class=\"width-100%\">\n\t\t<figcaption class=\"sr-only js-exp-gallery__caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&lt;div class=&quot;caption&quot;&gt;3\/3&lt;\/div&gt;\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At June&#8217;s Culture in Place Public Symposium, UEA premiered Uncovering the Ground \u2014 a short film grown out of a Project Lab built on one question: how can Indigenous knowledge shape the way we plan, design, and build our cities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}