Geographic location
Geographic location
Planning principles
IDENTIFY CONCRETE MEANS OF ACTION OR EXAMPLES
Once the stakeholders have been heard, the intervention chosen and long-term sustainable objectives are on everyone’s mind, the community’s ideas can start to be drawn and sketched by the planner. To structure and categorize these illustrations, the previously formulated planning principles come in handy. It allow every example to be centered around certain cultural, environmental or economic objectives.
REIMAGINE YOUR ASSETS
NEXT STEP
Planning principles are a great opportunity to orient decision-making in the responsible development of Nunavik’s Northern Villages, involving their population in the process. These 11 principles aim to ensure that future scenarios for the development of appropriate living environments include 1) a reinforcement of Inuit values, 2) an overall goal of sustainability for generations to come, and 3) an empowerment of the local population.
The 11 principles form a wheel composed of three interdependent opportunities for sustainable development : land and environment, community and culture, local resources and economy. This representation is inspired by a project named initiated by a European applied-research team in the field of vernacular architecture.
Each principle is further detailed and illustrated in the site’s tabs. You can click on the + symbols in the wheel to be redirected to the complete description. Since the team worked in close collaboration with Kangiqsualujjuaq to elaborate these principles, this village is used as an example in the sketches. That said, the principles remain very relevant in the context of other Nunavik’s Northern Villages.
