The Ambition
Every One Every Day Kjipuktuk has a big ambition: To build a new system of neighbourhood participation that is reconciliation focused and inclusive to all – where a new foundation for civic and social infrastructure is built upon relationships between people, nature, and place, and where residents can actively contribute to a more reconciled future for all.
To measure the value that is co-created by growing a network of participation and establish its viability as a long-term pathway for building neighbourhoods and cities that are happier, more resilient, and socially connected.
“To rise to the massive global challenges that face us all, we need new models for shifting culture. Every One Every Day Kjipuktuk is one powerful model for deep, place-based transformation. At the scale of neighbourhoods, it represents the world we need to build, collectively. Simply put, it inspires us to re-imagine how we live and work together in the future.”
Weaving Truth & Reconciliation into the design of civic and social infrastructure.
The journey of Reconciliation is rooted in relationships and honouring processes of truth and healing. So, we must create systems designed for this very thing — relationships between residents, organizations, and governments — first to build understanding across our ways of being and knowing, and to shift mindsets, systems and structures to not only account for these differences, but also to honour them through the ways we live and learn in society together. Every One Every Day Kjipuktuk creates opportunities to bring Reconciliation to life across neighbourhoods — through enhancing Indigenous identity and belonging in the urban context, and building new relationships that are about learning, and fostering harmonious interactions with each other and the places we call home.
Creating conditions for people and institutions to collaborate.
Every One Every Day is creating robust social infrastructure that has potential to transform people’s lives and the neighbourhoods in which they live. The urgent challenges of our time require new systems and structures that empower local people to contribute local solutions, as they are uniquely positioned to do. And with an ecosystem of local, national and international actors, to nurture new models of stewardship and shared ownership that make way for cities not designed for populations, but for generations — past present and future. This work can’t be done alone; But rather, it will take the minds and hearts of many — there is no other way.
Placing people at the heart of neighbourhood development.
The relationships we build everyday matter; And what we do together everyday matters too. Every One Every Day Kjipuktuk creates infrastructure for weaving the diverse threads of our communities together, through spaces designed for bridging — where neighbours can meet based on shared interests and build new relationships with one another and with place. It puts residents at the heart of decision making, where they have the tools and supports necessary to work together daily on practical and creative projects that help to shape the kind of neighbourhoods they wish to live in and are about.
“If reconciliation could be done quickly, or by any one group alone, it would already be done.”