The research projects described here are the results of a communal effort and successful partnership with the First Indigenous Peoples Leaders and community members based in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and vicinity. The working group that I am leading was formed in 2015 under the umbrella of Nelson Mandela University School of Architecture and since then we focus on community engagement projects, based on practice research, that involve teaching, learning and research. Our work promotes acts of cultural re-appropriation and reconnecting of the First Peoples with their heritage sites, and the reformulating and reconstructing of the indigenous narrative, done by them. This contributes to the building up of new knowledge, the restoration of the Indigenous culture and identity, the decolonizing of the high education curriculum, the breaking of the boundary between Indigenous communities and academia, and the building up of equity and inclusivity.  (Minguzzi M, 2022)