As part of the Magic Carpet 1.0 option studio at UBCSALA, Robyn Adams envisioned a future public birthing space rooted in Métis teachings, water protection, and ceremony. Her project, Taykay di loo |Towards Water, reclaims birthing as a sacred, community-centered act through architectural elements such as river-side birthing tubs, cedar baths, a placenta forest, and a medicine garden. Drawing from beadwork traditions and teachings from knowledge keepers, the project layers craft, memory, and land-based practices into a spatial narrative. Water, as both literal and symbolic carrier of life, grounds the work—positioning Indigenous futurity at the intersection of birth, ecology, and cultural continuity.

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