Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell Master Plan
The Kamay Botany Bay National Park Master Plan is a document that provides conceptual plans for part of the national park, considers the importance of the site and enables the community to see the types of changes, improvements and conservation intentions are proposed for the area. The Master Plan contains principles for approaching culture and heritage for sites within Kamay Botany Bay.
Introduction: making Indigenous place in the Australian city
The essay Introduction: making Indigenous place in the Australian city written by Emily Potter explores Indigenous cultural centre design in settler-colonial Australia. It reviews concerns, acknowledging the small number of Indigenous architects in Australia along with the complex social, historical and political context of Indigenous cultural design against non-indigenous architectural and spatial practice.
Institute of Koorie Education, Deakin University
Institute of Koorie Education is a built project at Deakin University Waurn Ponds Campus. The building aspires to express the spirit of Koorie culture and connect with the natural environment and landscape. The building is an educational institution with facilities to promote community.
Indigenizing practice: Inclusive Indigenous community housing
In this article written by Hannah Robertson explores the concept Indigenizing practice through inclusive Indigenous community housing. Robertson argues that affordable, culturally appropriate housing through can be achieved through basic steps in the design process and how that can go a long way to ensuring residents’ satisfaction and comfort.
Housing for Health
Healthabitat’s Housing for Health – The Guide is an online resource for anyone who is interested in the detailed links between housing and health. It gives guidance on designing, building and maintaining the living environment to improve safety and health.
Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre
The Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre is a significant cultural centre. Completed in 2014, the built project operates as an adult learning centre, meeting place and a place to protect and showcase cultural artefacts. It is also the site where Yolgnu Elders practice and preserve culture through the Garma Festival. The permanent construction of the centre was intended to enable further activities at the site.
Exploring a Cross-Cultural Theory of Architecture
The Exploring a Cross-Cultural Theory of Architecture article contributes to the development of a theoretical framework to address and explain all human behaviour linked with buildings, dwellings and settlements, in terms of both creating and using such environments. The aim of the article is to seek a theory that can be objectively applied to understanding interactions between the architectural values and building traditions of different cultures. The article argues for the configuration of a theory of architecture that can serve as a tool for understanding the nature of all designed, arranged, and/or constructed environments used as human habitats across all cultural contexts
Bilya Koort Boodja – Northam Centre for Aboriginal and Environmental Knowledge
Bilya Koort Boodja, Centre for Nyoongar Culture and Environmental Knowledge is a built project. Opened in 2018, The Centre is a community place to share, celebrate and respect Aboriginal culture.
A Country-centred approach to civic biodiversity
The article takes a Country-centred approach to civic biodiversity. It outlines Indigenous Knowledge and how they can be applied to the built environment through Indigenised biodiversity.
West Kimberly Regional Prison
A built project, the West Kimberley Regional Prison, the first culturally appropriate Indigenous prison. Designed in consultation with Kimberly Elders.