Reimagine Gathering Ltd. is an Indigenous-owned company born out of an urgency for nourishing collaboration while pushing the boundaries for diverse voices to be prioritized.
Who we are
Founded by Tiffany Shaw, we are an Indigenous interdisciplinary design studio that recenters intuitive, two-eyed seeing through multiple modes of creating. This includes engagement that invites reciprocity and relationship-building to support community-level stewardship from within their own capacity, as a tool for autonomy, as the core of our heartwork.
We offer collaboration to authentically move Indigenous voices into the future. Reimagine Gathering supports the catalyst for being ourselves and seeing ourselves proudly in the built environment.
Storytellers
Drawing strength from and honouring the past, we reflect on the boundless opportunities of co-creation in the present add we rethink the future; that is our role as storytellers.
Our Services
We curate environments that are circular (nurturing, loving, reciprocal, inviting, instinctive). Pulling strength from and honouring the past. Reflecting on the boundless opportunities of co-creation in the present as we rethink the future. Our studio is grounded in research, future forward design and land-based discovery practices: collaborating with diverse designers, artists, architects, planners, healers, researchers, and advocates through architecture, community planning, public art, curation, furniture, textiles, research and publications.
Tiffany Shaw
BFA, M.Arch
Principal + Creative Director
While born in Calgary, Tiffany Shaw was raised in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) within Treaty 6 Territory and District 9: Fort Edmonton Métis District. Tiffany’s Métis lineage derives from Fort McMurray via Fort McKay and the Red River and is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Tiffany is interdisciplinary in her practice as a Métis Architect and Indigenous Practice Leader with Reimagine Architects, as well as an artist, independent curator, and a founding core member of Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective. Tiffany believes in the power of listening to the land and the perseverance of Indigenous women’s work. She seeks to engage methods of motherhood and caregiving into workplace practices. By breaking down barriers for communities in regards to building materials, procurement, and fiscally responsible operations and maintenance plans, her work fosters growth and legacy for the communities she works alongside. Forming a cohesive narrative between past, present, and future concepts, Tiffany brings essential relational and reciprocal aspects into contemporary practice that reflect the hearts and minds of the groups she collaborates with.
Gloria Alamrew
BA
Communications + Creative Strategy
galamrew@reimaginegathering.ca
Gloria Alamrew is an Ethiopian-Canadian writer, raised as a guest in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 Territory, and District 9: Fort Edmonton Métis District. She currently resides in the homelands of the Munsee Lenape (Lenapehoking), Wappinger, and Schaghticoke Nations (the Bronx, New York). Through her writing work, she amplifies marginalized people and pulls them into focus through her own Black and traditional African modalities of care and knowing. With over 11 years of experience as a professional writer, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her practice, lending curiosity, precision of voice, and a lens towards futurism work that aims to craft regenerative worlds. Gloria is honoured to contribute to the collaborative conversations Reimagine Gathering is leading around how language and counter-culture storytelling can be engaged for social good within our built environments.
