Wellington Project-Australia’s First Native Title Claim
Walk Work Together – A Culturally Considerate Design For At Risk Indigenous Youth
A Culturally Considerate Design for At Risk Indigenous Youth dissertation investigates and explores the way cultural consideration in the built environment can impact not only the individual but also a whole community’s level of wellbeing and quality of life. Further it acknowledges that social responsible design and cultural consideration could be the catalyst for positive social change for communities like that of Beagle Bay. The paper provides case studies and terminology to support the dissertation.
Transdisciplinary Research and Aboriginal Knowledge
Thermal comfort modelling of Top End remote Indigenous housing in the Northern Territory
Reconciliation Action Plan
Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs) enable organisations to sustainably and strategically take meaningful action to advance reconciliation. RAPs provide tangible and substantive benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, increasing economic equity and supporting First Nations self-determination. They are based around the core pillars relationships, respect and opportunities and fall into four types– Reflect, Innovate, Stretch and Elevate. Each type of RAP is designed to suit an organisation at different stages of their reconciliation journey and allows organisations to continuously develop their reconciliation commitments.
Nurturing Relationships Within A Space Created By “Indigenous Ways of Knowing”
Colonizing bricks and mortar: Indigenous place-making through art objects and artifacts
Wilcannia Health Service
Wilcannia Health Service is a built project that consisted of redeveloping the hospital. This included additions to benefit the health needs of community in consultation with the community.
What is cultural safety and how do we design for it?
An article written by Dr Danièle Hromek exploring cultural safety in the built environment. The article explores the concept from a First Nations perspective and why it is imperative that designers understand cultural safety and consider it from project conception onwards.
Valuing “Under the House”: Women’s Knowledge and the Architectural History of the Stumped Queensland House
The paper offers a gendered reading of the uses of “under the house” in the raised Queensland house and in contrast to emphasised material and climatic narratives, highlights the value women placed on the everyday use of interstitial housing space under the Queensland house “between the stumps” and beneath the floorboards. There is emphasis on the socio-cultural importance women placed on these informal housing spaces for domestic activities. The paper draws on Australian textual records, re-considers women’s occupation and the implications of this as a rereading of Queensland’s “vernacular” architecture.