The places where bodies were found became crucial to her project – APTN News

Oct 26, 2022

Desirée Thériault wants to revamp site where Tina Fontaine was found murdered

Desirée Thériault has a plan to make the area around Winnipeg’s Alexander Docks safer, while memorializing missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

“The land is such a powerful medium to create space for reconciliation, to create space for memorialization, and to create space for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls [MMIWG],” said Thériault, a Métis landscape designer from Winnipeg.

Thériault said the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action emphasize how art can raise awareness of MMIWG, but don’t acknowledge the power of architecture.

When she embarked on her master’s degree in landscape architecture at the University of Manitoba in 2018, she said she felt compelled to do something concrete for MMIWG.

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