Takuaimatishun Laboratory
An applied research and knowledge mobilization initiative serving First Peoples.
Takuaimatishun Laboratory
The Takuaimatishun Laboratory is an applied research, training, and support infrastructure grounded in relationships with First Peoples’ families, communities, and institutions. It is a dynamic space where researchers, students, Elders, and knowledge holders come together to co-produce knowledge that can be directly mobilized into action.
Conceived as a mobile and collaborative infrastructure, the laboratory supports the activation of Indigenous intellectual traditions as contemporary tools for governance, knowledge transmission, and effective self-determination (takuaimatishun).
Priority Areas
The laboratory’s priority areas of focus are:
Territorial protection and land-based governance:
Supporting families and communities in mobilizing their knowledge to protect, manage, and transmit ancestral territories.
Activation and transmission of knowledge:
Reactivating intellectual, legal, and cultural traditions through narratives, archives, and intergenerational relationships.
Knowledge governance and decision-making:
Developing protocols, tools, and decision-making models grounded in Indigenous normative frameworks and relational responsibility.
Addressing community-defined issues:
Supporting the analysis and implementation of concrete solutions to issues identified by individuals, families, and partner institutions.
Collaboration and Training
The laboratory serves as a space of convergence between academia and communities, where research is developed relationally and through co-production.
It plays a central role in training a new generation of researchers and practitioners by providing an immersive, collaborative, and culturally grounded environment.
Through its activities, it fosters the development of skills in knowledge governance, community archiving, narrative research, and knowledge mobilization in real-world contexts.
Knowledge in Action
By bringing together archives, narratives, intellectual traditions, and contemporary practices, the Takuaimatishun Laboratory transforms research into a lever for collective action.
Its initiatives are grounded in needs identified by communities and aim to concretely strengthen their capacity to act, make decisions, and transmit knowledge, thereby contributing to the exercise of effective and sustainable self-determination.
