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Occupying the centre: Indigenous presence in the Australian capital city

In this article, author Anoma Pieris discusses Indigenous spatial and political presence within Canberra in relation to urban geography with historical, political and spatial context. The article acknowledges the absence of a comprehensive record on Aboriginal communities and the significance of contemporary political occupations of the city with sites of socio-political significance.

National Museum of the American Indian

The National Museum of the American Indian was established as part of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, USA. The building serves as an educational space for Native Americans to gather, celebrate and share their culture. The design of the building is representative of Native American culture and was done in collaboration with Elders of North and South American tribes.

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.

Interculturality, identity, and self-determination in an Aboriginal cultural centre

The paper explores the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, their nature and perceptions while suggesting that questions of relation and questions of identity cannot be separated from one another. Utilising a case study of Dharug organisation: Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural and Education Centre, the author suggests that outcomes of projects of self-determination depend on the nature of intercultural exchange further in addition to economic and social wellbeing, cultural spaces and self-governance. , The paper Interculturality, identity, and self-determination in an Aboriginal cultural centre explores the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, their nature and perceptions while suggesting that questions of relation and questions of identity cannot be separated from one another. Utilising a case study of Dharug organisation: Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural and Education Centre, author Lainie Schultz suggests that outcomes of projects of self-determination depend on the nature of intercultural exchange further in addition to economic and social wellbeing, cultural spaces and self-governance.

Indigenous Planning & Design Principles

Indigenous Planning and Design Principles were developed by the University of Manitoba collaboratively under the guidance of an Indigenous advisory committee and subcommittee. The principles were established to guide planning and design on all university lands and campuses. These principles are rooted in interdependence, an Indigenous way of being and recognises that all components of a place are linked in complex ways.

Indigenous Mobilities: Across and Beyond the Antipodes

This academic work seeks to explore Indigenous–Indigenous connection and recognition of the shared region. Indigenous Mobilities investigates what happens when we read Māori and Aboriginal mobility alongside each other against a backdrop of colonial oppression.

Colonisation – It’s bad for your health: The context of Aboriginal health

Colonisation – It’s bad for your health: The context of Aboriginal health is an article published in Contemporary Nurse written by Juanita Sherwood. The article acknowledges the relationship between health status and individuals or collectives with focus on Indigenous Health and provides a timeline of specific historical and political events, contributing to current social health determinants. It explores how colonisation has caused Australians including Indigenous Australians, to have a lack of knowledge in historical accounts which has effected the way health service providers have delivered health to Indigenous People.

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