If profound intractable problems exist in society, it follows that the professions needed to fix them have not yet been invented.

Ian Wojtowicz (he/him) is a writer who builds stuff. His work applies techniques of connection, dissensus, modifiability, playfulness, editing, argument, dialogue, and repair.

He has shown work in Hong Kong, Europe and throughout North America, and has published work in Wired Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and on PBS and Discovery channels. Professionally, Wojtowicz has consulted for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the US National Coast Guard Museum, the Redwoods National and State Parks, and indigenous cultural projects at Nk'Mip and Wanuskewin.

Wojtowicz holds a degree in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT’s School of Architecture and is the editor of a collected volume from MIT Press entitled Interrogative Design, on artist Krzysztof Wodiczko's influential design philosophy.

He currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada, on the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh people.



Native Senate

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2018
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The Senate has been the source of much criticism amongst Canadians as a non-elected political body that holds veto power over new legislation. Various proposals for changing the Senate have circulated in the public sphere, from democratic reform to outright abolition.

What if Canada gave control of the Senate to the Assembly of First Nations as an act of atonement for for the cultural genocide of the Residential School System and its continuing effects on indigenous peoples (and others through secondary trauma)?

In 2021, Senator Murray Sinclair reminded us that the Senate was originally conceived as a kind of national council of elders. Perhaps it is time to return to that idea.



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