This blog will document a research project taking place over the spring and summer months in 2019 at The Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site – a former limestone quarry and municipal landfill located on the Niagara Escarpment on Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Ojibway, and Chippewa territory in what is currently known as St. Catharines, Ontario. The Quarry, as we have come to call it in our collaboratory, now sits as a post-landfill site, a naturalization space for public recreation. However, the site’s complex history is never far from our thinking and walking practices as researchers, educators, and young children will walk together to explore the possibilities for experimental pedagogies and curriculum-making in a landscape shaped by its relation(s) with waste and extractive practices.
