Wellington Project-Australia’s First Native Title Claim
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.
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.
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.
Transformations: Gendered Indigeneity
An Audio-visual discussing the way Indigeneity and Gender intersect and advocacy groups and how they work alongside First Nations Peoples. This discussion takes place between Sarah Lynn Rees (Palawa) and Carroll Go-Sam (Dyirbal bama) at Melbourne School of Design.
Towards an Aboriginal Knowledge Place: Cultural Practices as a Pathway to Wellness in the Context of a Tertiary Hospital
The journal article, Towards an Aboriginal Knowledge Place: Cultural Practices as a Pathway to Wellness in the Context of a Tertiary Hospital, discusses the health of the Indigenous community in comparison to the non-Indigenous. In light of dire statistics, the article proposes a new framework in urban hospitals for Aboriginal young people and their families, embedding culture into assessment, formulation and treatment.
Thermal comfort modelling of Top End remote Indigenous housing in the Northern Territory
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.
Stolen Generations Marker, Remember Me
Stolen Generations Marker, Remember Me, by Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie is a permanent tribute to the Stolen Generations. The built project is situated on an important Aboriginal meeting place the project was guided by the Stolen Generations Marker Steering Group. Remember Me is an expression of cultural resilience, identity and connection to land and culture.