South Eveleigh Native Rooftop Farm
This garden was co-designed by members of the Local Indigenous Community. The space features diverse plants with focus on Sydney Region species and reinvigoration of cultural cultivation practices. The built project also creates habitat for both people and wildlife.
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.
Planning Connects 2019: Designing with Country
Planning Connects is a video recorded webinar from 2019 that explores Designing with Country. The presenters are Principal Architect for GNSW Dillon Kombumerri and Spatial Designer Daniele Hromek.
Lowes Creek Maryland Structure Plan
Lowes Creek Maryland is a new precinct planned for Sydney’s South West Growth Area. The Department of Planning and Environment, in collaboration with Camden Council, prepared the precinct plan for Lowes Creek Maryland, a guide for the precinct’s creation. It provides significant Aboriginal Cultural heritage and European heritage protections and outlines infrastructure for future communities to thrive.
Listen, observe, learn: Ethics and protocols on Country
In this discussion Dr Danièle Hromek explores the protocols and ethics she learnt from her family and from Country as a child. She explores how these ethics and protocols relate not only to Country but the built environment and why they are important for non-Indigenous people to learn.
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.
Guruwaal (Alumni Green), University of New South Wales
Guruwaal 2021 is a community led art installation in the Alumni Green of University of New South Wales. The artwork was designed and led by local Aboriginal Knowledge Holders and Custodians. The artwork draws upon the narratives, histories and language of the local Aboriginal community and is connected to the knowledges of place and the deep histories of Country that are embedded within the community.
From smokebush to spinifex: Towards recognition of Indigenous knowledge in the commercialisation of plants
The article From smokebush to spinifex explores Indigenous knowledge in commercialisation of plants, including the diverse relationships with plants and their seeds. Author Terri Kanke acknowledges the cultural knowledge systems, deep histories and sophisticated knowledges that link culture and the natural environment. The articled explores western approaches, institutions and history with collecting Australian plant materials, their different approaches and the lack of culturally based Indigenous ownership in knowledge. The article aims to promote more robust inclusion of Indigenous rights, interests and concerns.
Exploring ‘Aboriginal’ sites in Sydney: a shifting politics of place?
This essay was written by Melinda Hinknkson with the aim of addressing the issues that arose in the context of the research that were not canvassed in the authors other work, Aboriginal Sydney. The book was a guide to fifty places in the greater Sydney region designed to be used as a straightforward guidebook as well as a selective and short social history of Sydney. It aims to address what exactly was being produced in this process of uncovering Aboriginal history in Sydney while exploring what kinds of representations of Aboriginality were emerging. It further explores the idea that these representations differed from those identified and analysed in relation to Sydney’s Aboriginal sites in the past.
Eora Journey Harbour Walk Storytelling Report
The Eora Journey – Harbour Walk Storytelling Report is a draft for the City of Sydney. The written report provides the foundational storytelling framework and recommendations to guide the implementation of the Harbour Walk being developed by the city in collaboration with community members and project partners. The document was last updated September 2019.