In January 2022, the OHMN team purchased an 18’ construction trailer and invited these students to envision and build a Mobile Indigenous Design and Build Workshop to serve as an essential resource for supporting the design and construction of homes in and with First Nations communities. This hands-on design/build project allowed students to expand their design education to include conceptual and material realities that are born out of both Indigenous and Western world views. The trailer design became a site to envision new stories to be told within these communities through supporting activities of essential need, collectivism, and hope. The trailer now completed is poised to be a critical resource that provides the equipment, shelter, resources, safety, and infrastructure necessary to carry out a full construction project, guide teachings, connect people, land protection, feast, and dream.

The design of the trailer includes: tool storage, a design space, safety equipment, a wood stove, indoor seating, a kitchen, meat butchering table, wood storage, interior gathering space, solar panels, generators, outlets and lighting, magnetic and chalk board walls, outhouse with portable compostable toilet, waterproof canopies, a bug screened room, a feasting table, outdoor bench and feasting space.