Wellington Project-Missions Reserves and Camps
Wellington Project-Australia’s First Native Title Claim
Wellington Project-Country, Spirit and Belonging, The Wiradjuri in Wellington Valley
Country, Spirit and Belonging: The Wiradjuri in Wellington Valley is a sixty-four-page newspaper–styled publication that centres on the history and community of Wellington, New South Wales and features contributions by and perspectives on the local Aboriginal community. The paper, an effort to record the historical narratives of the area, covers colonisation, reconciliation, complexities of cross-cultural engagement, censorship and community relationships
White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism
White Fragility: Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? written by Dr Robin DiAngelo, explores the racialized victimhood white people experience when their assumptions about race are challenged and how this serves to maintain racial inequality. Dr Robin DiAngelo explores how the defensive moves and counterproductive reactions which are characterised as white fragility prevents meaningful cross-racial dialogue and protects racial inequality.
What is Human Centred Design?
What is Human Centred Design reflects upon the meanings of the word design and how the relatively complete definition of the paradigm of human centred design is formulated. The article explores design and various the meanings along with both the background and the current practice of the paradigm.
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.
Traditional Knowledge and Renewable Resource Management in Northern Regions
The area study published by the University of Alberta Press, explores the sometimes problematic relationship between traditional and scientific wildlife management knowledge and practices.
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.
Redefining architecture to accommodate cultural difference: designing for cultural sustainability
The Architectural Science Review piece combines ideas about the nature and interrelation of culture and architecture that have preoccupied researchers at the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (University of Queensland), analysing the living environments of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The article draws a number of examples from the analyses of Aboriginal Australian built environments to illustrate their points.