ELADIA SMOKE
Area of Expertise: Architecture
"Part of the reason we’re having such trouble with that is because our Indigenous identities, those identities that come from this place, have never been explored from an architectural perspective. So there’s a small community of us who are wrestling with this very exciting question."
Eladia has provided complete architectural services since 2002. Eladia has worked at several scales of commercial building, guiding projects through all phases from conception through completion. She's dedicated to bringing together practical requirements and core values into a design response that facilitates day-to-day functions and expresses a strong identity. She establishes a proactive liaison between owner, engineers, and builders to smooth out the construction process so work meets high quality standards and follows tight schedules and budgets. Eladia is Anishinabe, and she is the first female First Nations architect in Manitoba and Ontario.