Towards Home / ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui: Inuit & Sámi Placemaking

An Indigenous-led publication, Towards Home explores how Inuit, Sámi and other communities across the Arctic are creating self-determined spaces. This research project, led by Indigenous and settler co-editors, is titled after the phrases ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ ( angirramut ) in Inuktitut, or ruovttu guvlui in Sámi, which can be translated as “towards home.” To move towards home is to reflect on where northern Indigenous people find home, on what their connections to their land means and on what these relationships could look like into the future. Framed by these three concepts—Home, Land and Future—the book contains essays, artworks, photographs and personal narratives that express Indigenous notions of home, land, kinship, design and memory. The project emphasizes caring for and living on the land as a way of being, and celebrates practices of space-making and place-making that empower Indigenous communities. The publication ultimately asks: what could home become across Inuit Nunangat, Sápmi, and the North more generally when defined by Indigenous architects and designers? Where do homelands begin? Contributors include Robyn Adams, Ella den Elzen, Liisa- Rávná Finbog, Napatsi Folger, Carola Grahn, Jenni Hakovirta, Elin Kristine Haugdal, Geronimo Inutiq, Ellen Marie Jensen, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Nicole Luke, Reanna Merasty, Johanna Minde, Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Naomi Ratte, Tiffany Shaw, Sunniva Skålnes, Jen Rose Smith, and Olivia Lya Thomassie. Edited by Joar Nango (Sámi architect), Taqralik Partridge (Associate Curator of Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Ontario), Jocelyn Piirainen (Associate Curator, National Gallery of Canada’s Indigenous Ways and Decolonization department), and Rafico Ruiz (Associate Director Research, CCA) Designed by OTAMI-ᐅᑕᒥ Published by Valiz with the Canadian Centre for Architecture/CCA and Mondo Books, 2024 Trilingual, in English, Inuktitut, and Sámi Softcover, 352 pages, 50 color and 100 b&w images, 6.75 × 9.5 in. ISBN: 978-9-49-324625-6