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Campus to Country Strategy for QUT

Campus to Country: Positioning Strategy is a written document by the Queensland University of Technology published in 2020. It is a strategy that outlines the importance of connecting to Country and provides guidelines for planning and designing culturally sensitive buildings, spaces and places that reflect local context and respond to the current needs of the campus community.

Connecting with Country: A pathway to listening

In this discussion, Andrew Broffman spoke with Dillon Kombumerri about the challenges and rewards of shifting from a human-centred approach to a Country-centred view that offers more than just sustainability. Dillon Kombumerri is principal architect with the Government Architect NSW and co-author of the Connecting with Country framework. Kombumerri discusses the principles and protocols that shaped his approach creating the Country-centred framework.

Casino Aboriginal Medical Service

The Casino Aboriginal Medical Service is a built project completed in 2016. The project aimed to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal communities by constructing a public medical service building. The project created a social hub with medical services for the community that responds to culture and Country.

Designing with Country

Designing with Country is a part of the Connecting with Country Framework. It involves taking a Country-centred approach with spatial design opportunities that improve the functional design of projects and reinforce a connection with Country.

Aboriginal yards in remote Australia: Adapting landscapes for Indigenous housing

The Adapting landscapes for Indigenous housing paper draws on data from a qualitative climate change study with Australian Aboriginal people in the remote areas of Queensland and regional studies to explore ways that yards can enhance thermal performance around conventional housing. The paper explores how living spaces outside of the house continue to be overlooked and under-utilised despite evidence of appropriate housing designs. Further, Aboriginal people have modified their behaviour and made changes to their external living environments, often without sufficient resources, to achieve social and cultural continuity as well as energy efficiency.

Australian Indigenous Design Charter Communication Design

The Australian Indigenous Design Charter – Communication Design is a written document with protocols for sharing Indigenous knowledge in communication design practice. The purpose of the document is to help facilitate an accurate and respectful representation of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in design and associated media. It is an open document that is reviewed on a regular basis and modified as required.

Design: Building on Country

Design: Building on Country, published in 2021, is the second book in a six-book series. The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas, with the second book focusing on Design. The book explores building on Country and two different ways of understanding the natural world: ancient and modern.

Ask First: A guide to respecting Indigenous heritage places and values

Ask First is a written document published by the Australian Heritage Commission. It is a guide for land developers, land users and managers, cultural heritage professionals and others who may have an impact on Indigenous heritage. It features a framework concerning Indigenous heritage and conservation that includes the involvement and consultation of Indigenous Peoples.

Aboriginal mobility and Sustainability of Communities: Case Studies from North-West Queensland and Eastern Northern Territory

This working paper series aims to consider the role of mobility in sustaining and expressing Aboriginal attachments to places and social relations, as well as the relationship between mobility and service needs. It considers this with the context of the existing culture of mobility amongst the Aboriginal population of Australia. The paper draws on case studies of Aboriginal mobility from an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) funded research project.

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