The Sydney Language
The aim of this book is to revive interest in the Aboriginal language of the Sydney and to make readily available the information about the language. The book holds many illustrations to help the reader visualise the Sydney people, their technology, cultural life and physical environment.
TAKE 2: Housing Design in Indigenous Australia
Take 2 provides guidance and evaluation regarding the design of housing for First Nations Peoples in Australia. , Take 2 is an edited book that comprises a series of essays providing evaluation and guidance regarding the design of housing for First Nations Peoples in Australia. , Take 2 provides guidance and evaluation regarding the design of housing for First Nations Peoples in Australia. Take 2 is an edited book that comprises a series of essays providing evaluation and guidance regarding the design of housing for First Nations Peoples in Australia.
Te Ara Kotahi (Our Māori Strategy)
Te Ara Kotahi (our Māori Strategy) is a written document for Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. The document provides strategic direction on how Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency plans to work with and respond to Māori as the Crown’s Treaty partner. The purpose is to work with Māori to build strong, meaningful and enduring relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. The Strategy document includes their objectives, their vision and an action plan.
Third Space, Architecture & Indigeneity – Studies of Designed Environments and Cultural Narratives in Australia
The University of Sydney, digitally published thesis discusses the need for more in-depth conversations that encompass conceptual frameworks relevant to First Nations cultures and presents the qualities of a Third Space. Further, it discusses that it can inform ways of thinking that link architecture and cross-cultural engagement with placemaking in contemporary settings, deep time living practices and colonial interventions on the Australian continent between beings. Focusing primarily on reciprocity in thinking—giving back—and how it informs more nuanced and inclusive approaches to architecture and placemaking as always becoming part of Country.
Reflections on Indigenous Placemaking
Remote Possibilities: The Aboriginal Domain and the Administrative Imagination
Resilience: a Lived Experience
The thesis, Resilience: a Lived Experience, written by Keith Andrew Noble explores agriculture in contemporary Australia with focus on Northern Australia. The thesis acknowledges the importance of seeking out knowledge from farmers with experience and explores how the Situational Awareness, the Ability to Plan, the Ability to Adapt, Social Connectedness and perception of Fairness through a Grounded Theory Approach contributes a new understanding of resilience.
Shaping Country
A written research report about cultural engagement in Australia’s built environment. The report focuses on adapting the way processes are used to design built environments to include community, culture and Country.
Raising Understanding of Indigenous Australian Culture through Creative Production in Interior Architecture
The Interior Design focused paper, intends to demonstrate a way of applying cross-cultural design processes to the built environment within a tertiary educational context, exploring current processes and the broader impact of these initiatives.
Redefining architecture to accommodate cultural difference: designing for cultural sustainability
The Architectural Science Review piece combines ideas about the nature and interrelation of culture and architecture that have preoccupied researchers at the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (University of Queensland), analysing the living environments of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The article draws a number of examples from the analyses of Aboriginal Australian built environments to illustrate their points.