Land Acknowledgment
Confluence Room
spatial design / interactive design / graphic design / research
2021 - 2022
Context: Laichee was invited by MnDOT Artist in Residence, Marcus Young 楊墨 to collaborate in transforming an underutilized conference room in the MnDOT building into the Land Acknowledgment Confluence Room.
Laichee iteratively designed art posters, wall elevations, and graphics for deck of Water Blessings for the interactive areas within the space.
Credits: Marcus Young, Jessica Oh, Ben Stone, Liping Vong, Laura (Or) Levinson, Asher Edes, Laichee Yang
Office of Equity and Diversity and the Employee Resource Groups, Office of Land Management, Central Office Facility Management Services, MnDOT Library, Printing and Electronic Media Services, Native-Land.ca
Before image of conference room. Image Description: A room with walls made of beige panels and glass openings about one foot from paneled ceiling. A long wood table surrounded by black office chairs in the center. A tall person dressed in a gray hoodie with short black hair stands next to a white board and faces a picture frame in the space .
Testing the site and scale of where the the native land map will hang. Image Description: A tan person with short black hair wears black rimmed glasses and a KN95 face mask working on his laptop on a circle wood table. In the background is a projection of the native land map.
Image Description: Black plastic room sign reads 820 Land Acknowledgment Confluence Room.
One iteration of art poster. Image Description: collage of buildings and a group of protesters with signs urging the closure of Tamms and Illinois prison. Signs read "my son is not a paycheck," "my uncle is a man", "tamms shocks the conscience", "close tams."
Final Iteration of Art Poster Image Description: Grid collage of Tamms Prison protesters, a hand written letter, and description of the Tamms Year Ten project.
Mock up of art wall poster layout. Image Description: Six varied collages in rectangles form a three by two grid.
Installation photo of art wall. Image Description: Art wall posters hang in modern black frames against a beige wall with green potted plants sitting on a shelf.
Image Description: Black drawing of snake plant on white background.
Image Description: Black drawing of cedar tree on white background.
Mock up of quote wall poster layout. Image Description: Thirteen varied size frames with gradients of blue, green, yellow, and orange arranged in a organic fashion.
Installation photo of quote wall. Image Description: Quote wall posters hang in modern black frames against a beige wall with two black leather club chairs potted flanking a round side table with a potted green plant.
Image Description: A matted poster with didactic language about the room hangs on beige walls with quote wall in the background.