OCTOBER 17-27
Lenapehoking
238 E6th St, New York, NY
LAND BACK in Cities is an exhibition, and public programming featuring projects working towards Indigenous sovereignty in urban contexts.
LAND BACK refers to Indigenous-led movements that advocate for returning stolen ancestral lands to Indigenous peoples to restore sovereignty, self-determination, and environmental stewardship.
LAND BACK
EXHIBITION
October 17- 27
T, W, Th – 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
M, F, S, S – 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
If you live in the Americas, Australasia, or the African continent, there is no escaping the fact that your movement and access to resources is shaped by legacies of European colonial settlement.
This exhibition and its public programming brings together Indigenous and settler activists, architects, designers, artists, and community organisations from Turtle Island (United States, Canada), Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and South Africa, to present built work, visual material, maps, film, oral narratives, and community-led case studies.
Participants
· Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians
· Delaware Tribe of Indians Cultural Education Department
· Ryan Gorrie Ziibing – University of Toronto
· Pūrangakura Generation Kāinga Charitable Trust
· Save Our Unique Landscape Protect Ihumātao
· Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Auckland City Rail Link
· Jack Gillmer-Lilley (Worimi and Biripi guri of the Gathang language group) and Liam Coe (Wiradjuri Wahlan Gibir from Erambie on the Bila Galare)
· KJ – Karen Jackson (Yorta Yorta) and Emily Cox Moondani Balluk
· Jefa Greenaway (Wailwan, Kamilaroi) Greenaway Architects UTS National First Nations College winning design competition
· Wandile Mthiyane (Zulu) – Ubuntu Design Group
· Wolff Architects The Caretaker
· Reclaim the City Cissie Gool House Occupation
· Grimaldo Rengifo Vásquez, Claudia Tomateo (Quechua-Chanka), and Catherine D’Ignazio
· Designed and curated by Kholisile Dhliwayo (Nguni)- Dhliwayo Architecture
on exhibit
a brief history of the mohican nation stockbridge-munsee band
“Malàxkwsitkan, or Bean Dance ”
“Këkhìtkil Hùnt Na Xanikw…” or “Squirrels Were Said to be Huge…”
The Delaware Tribe of Indians Cultural Education Department
Ziibiing – Taddle Creek Indigenous Landscape
Ryan Gorrie
GENERATION KĀINGA
Pūrangakura
PROTECT IHUMĀTAO
Save Our Unique Landscape
AUCKLAND CITY RAIL LINK
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei
Resisting ‘Terra Nullius’ – Revolutionaries and Policy Providing Cultural Agency in Architecture
Jack Gillmer-Lilley (Worimi and Biripi guri of the Gathang language group) and Liam Coe (Wiradjuri Wahlan Gibir from Erambie on the Bila Galare)
Image from the Australian Pavilion 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025 HOME
MOONDANI BALLUK Indigenous Landscape
KJ – Karen Jackson (Yorta Yorta) and Emily Cox
UTS National First Nations College
winning design competition
Jefa Greenaway (Wailwan, Kamilaroi) Greenaway Architects
UBUNTU DESIGN GROUP
Wandile Mthiyane
THE CARETAKER
Wolff Architects
Cissie Gool House
Reclaim the City
EVENTS
Reimagining and Rebuilding Home: Indigenous Youth Perspectives
Tuesday, October 20
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Join Jacqueline Paul and Hanna-Marie Monga in a talk about how Indigenous youth in Aotearoa are reimaging homes, lands, and relationships.
Indigenous led design : Aotearoa-New Zealand’s largest infrastructure project
Wednesday, October 21
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Join us for a conversation with Rana Kipa and Arekatera ‘Katz’Maihi from Aotearoa about how Māori principles have shaped Aotearoa-New Zealand’s largest infrastructure project.
Resisting ‘Terra Nullius’ – Cultural Agency in Architecture
Thursday, October 22
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Join us for a conversation with Jack Gillmer-Lilley (Worimi and Biripi guri of the Gathang language group) and Liam Coe (Wiradjuri Wahlan Gibir from Erambie on the Bila Galare) about how Aboriginal perspectives, cultures, lived experiences and practices inform the ways we build? How architecture can learn, and listen?
Image below: from the Australian Pavilion 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025 HOME
Land for people: Undoing spatial apartheid in South African cities
Saturday, October 24
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Join Bevil Lucas from Reclaim the City, Wandile Mthiyane from Ubuntu Design Group, and the filmmaker Annie Nisenson in conversation about spatial justice and affordable housing, moderated by Keller Easterling.
Amazonian Calendars: A Journey of Relational Knowledge
Tuesday, October 27
6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
Join us for a conversation about Amazonian Calendars: Indigenous Data Visualizations, developed with Quechua communities in the Amazon of so-called Peru.
This conversation will be led by Peruvian educator, researcher, and writer Grimaldo Rengifo Vásquez from Tocache, Claudia Tomateo -Assistant Professor of Indigenous Knowledges and Methodologies at Parsons, and Catherine D’Ignazio Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab.
This exhibition is made possible by the support of:
