Mh1$AgThS2 Lisa Jackson's "Biidaaban: First Light" VR experience manifests as a physical installation in Nathan Phillips Square, where Toronto's urban landscape appears reclaimed by nature. The iconic city hall buildings are partially covered with holographic projections showing lush vegetation growing from windows and rooftops, while virtual wildlife roams the plaza. Indigenous languages appear as glowing text that flows like water across the square, the Anishinaabemowin words pulsing with ancestral energy in earth-tone ambers and spiritual blues. Visitors wearing augmented reality headsets see the city transformed into a reconciled future where natural systems and human technology achieve harmony, the boundaries between past, present and future collapsing in a vision of Indigenous futurism that challenges colonial perspectives on urban development. The entire composition shifts between urban concrete gray and vibrant ecological green, symbolizing the tension between built environment and natural systems. Thin border of Indigenous language characters on a epic golden border background
