Seneca College's Centre for Innovation facilitates storytelling with Indigenous cultural elements and inspiration

As part of Seneca’s commitment to furthering Indigenous education, Perkins and Will has unveiled the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE) on the Newnham Campus. Perkins and Will worked in collaboration with the First Peoples@Seneca Office to ensure that the Indigenous communities the building represents would be conveyed in the design and artwork throughout the structure. 

"We developed a very fulsome consultation process to ensure that Seneca’s Indigenous communities took pride and saw themselves reflected in the building," said Mark Solomon, Dean of Students and Indigenous Education at Seneca in a statement. "CITE is about ingrained knowledge that has been part of the land for generations...We needed to ...