Howard Munroe

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About Howard Munroe

Howard Munroe, Métis from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, is an Associate Professor, Industrial Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Ontario Canada. His work focuses on introducing Indigenous ways of knowing into current research and design pedagogies to help establish protocols that inform Systems, Sustainability and Manufacturing processes. Using an urban Indigenous lens, he explores how Indigenous knowledge can foster productive relationships between Indigenous peoples and the Design community as a whole by introducing research methodologies that are bounded by Indigenous guidelines and protocols. He uses this approach in education to continually explore how Indigenous Design can inform the constructs of curriculum and how it is delivered.