06/18/2026
We’re honoured to see the BC First Nations Justice Centres featured in Canadian Interiors magazine as part of a broader conversation on Indigenous design, collaboration, and cultural specificity.
Led by Reimagine Gathering, our Indigenous-owned sister company, with support from Reimagine Architects, the project helped the BC First Nations Justice Council (https://www.linkedin.com/company/bcfnjc/) open five new Indigenous Justice Centres in Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Surrey, and Kelowna. Each Centre provides free legal representation and wraparound supports for Indigenous people across British Columbia, creating spaces where clients can access services in environments shaped by dignity, care, and cultural belonging.
The work was delivered through a light-touch retrofit strategy. Across the five sites, the design team worked carefully within existing conditions, with minimal new wall construction, focusing on space planning, interior treatments, millwork, custom wallpaper, glazing films, furniture, and the integration of Indigenous art.
Twenty-nine Indigenous artists were engaged across the five locations, with each Centre reflecting the Nations, languages, plants, materials, and visual traditions of its region. Rather than one repeated design language, the result is five distinct spaces shaped by local context and cultural authorship.
Congratulations to the BC First Nations Justice Council on this recognition, and thank you to everyone whose care, collaboration, and commitment helped bring these Centres to life, including Reimagine Gathering and the broader Reimagine project team: Vivian Manasc, Tiffany Shaw, Tiffany Creyke, Jordan Polanski, Yangyang Jiao, Veronica Burch, Richard Ranta, Toni Chui, Gloria Alamrew, Erika McElhinney,, Anthony Martinez, and Robyn Adams, along with the artists, Elders, contractors, trades, and community members whose voices shaped this work.
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