 Culture as a Force for the Future 
Many Indigenous communities place issues of identity at the heart of their concerns, having seen their rich cultural heritage threatened by a variety of assimilationist processes. Members of the Atikamekw Nation, and a team of non- indigenous designers from the Université de Montréal have been working together to imagine new ways of facilitating cultural transmission, all the while supporting local, community-based development efforts. This paper presents Tapiskwan, an intergenerational participatory action research project, and discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities this collaboration has revealed and seeks to address. Territorial transformations have greatly limited community members’ access to the raw materials that are central to their material culture. In response to this problem, new ways to highlight participants’ visual heritage through the development of artisanal textile and paper products are proposed. In relation to the Indigenous ways of life that are harmonized according to the seasonal activities related to subsistence for each period of the year, a more seasonal approach to the activities of production is proposed, due to several intensive periods per year.