As Canadian architecture schools strive to reconcile and achieve parity with this country’s Indigenous Nations, there is an increasing need for design astuteness informed by political awareness and landscape sensitivity. Traveling to Peru, an Indigenous instructor and a group of students follow an ancient migration path, opening possibilities for a deeper and more experiential approach to working with people different from themselves.

The students expand their understanding of a different culture and internalize Indigenous knowledge, setting their bodies into motion, placing their hands in the soil, and searching for ‘a shift in mind that drops down to feeling’. This film raises critical questions that pertain to land, identity, and forced differences.

*This film screens with Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz.