WasteScapes is a multi-platform research-creation designed by Liz Miller and MJ Thompson that involves pedagogical resources, media interventions, publications, and site-based learning. We developed the WasteScapes app for teachers interested in the potential of site-based learning, cycling enthusiasts, and Montrealers eager to explore their city in new ways.
Miller and Thompson would like to acknowledge that the App and related WasteScape events take place on unceded Indigenous land. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations.
As you move through the city and its wastescapes, we invite you to reflect on the relationship between waste and colonialism. All of the places you will visit are unceded land, and as Max Liboiron suggests in Pollution Is Colonialism, “pollution is not a manifestation or side effect of colonialism but is rather an enactment of ongoing colonial relations to Land.”