The Saugeen First Nation Amphitheatre and Creator's Garden Master Plan is a co-design between community members and the design team at Brook Mcllroy—a team led by landscape architects in collaboration with Indigenous architects and designers. The project will strengthen the community's long-term economic viability while supporting the recovery of land-based knowledge known to Indigenous Peoples for millennia. The restoration of Saugeen First Nation's land surrounding the Amphitheatre is integral to the future success of the site, and supports the Garden's emphasis on medicine knowledge, land-based learning and traditional storytelling. This emphasis heightens the potential for future programming based around medicine knowledge from a health, healing, and a horticultural perspective. The master plan, which began implementation in the spring of 2021, serves as a model of how landscape architecture can partner with Indigenous communities to promote economic growth, ecological restoration and Indigenous storytelling through the strategic redevelopment of the landscape.
