Wanda Dalla Costa is a practicing architect and professor who has been co-designing with North American indigenous communities for nearly two decades.
[1] Her teaching and research focuses include indigenous place-keeping, culturally responsive design, sustainable housing, and climate resiliency in architecture.
Dalla Costa founded Redquill Architecture Inc., in 2010 in order to exclusively work with tribal communities and investigate ways of re-instilling the built environment with meaning from studies of traditional worldviews.
[5] Projects include the Niitsitapi Learning Centre in Calgary, several buildings at Red Crow Community College in Cardston, Fort McMurray First Nation Community Recreation Centre, and the Tsuu T’ina Nation Office Building in Edmonton.
[7] The collaborative makes connections between tribal community members, multidisciplinary ASU students and faculty, and industry.