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says Dr. Stephenson. Centennial College Indigenous A COLLEGE OF FIRSTS
staff and faculty worked together with the architects
to imbed these perspectives throughout, going Centennial College was the very first college to
beyond surface motifs to reach a deeper shared open its doors to students under William Davis’s
understanding that manifests in architectural space. plan to establish a public network of community
colleges across Ontario. As Education Minister,
Eladia Smoke, principal of Smoke Architecture, was Davis recognized the need for an innovative form of
one of the leads on the project. As she explains, higher education to prepare the demographic wave
“It’s a teaching lodge, and the way you teach is of “baby boomers” to participate in the economy in
you refer to inspirations from the natural world. So, new ways: as technologists, business people, social
this is a space that is reminiscent of that because workers and early childhood educators, among
there’s lots of glass and then you have this wood many other burgeoning career fields.
framework breaking it up into bays.”
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