Building Bridges

UMCycle Bike Kiosk

UMCycle Bike Kiosk and Cycle Plaza opened in 2017 and is located at the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus, Canada. The built project forms an active transport hub and serves as a campus landmark, linking to The Great Trail. The UMCycle Bike Kiosk was also the first project at the university to incorporate the Indigenous Planning and Design Principles.

Tweed Shire Council Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management Plan

This written document is the Tweed Shire Council Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management Plan. It includes an acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians and a Statement of Commitment to people, culture and Country. The document also includes a breakdown of the Aboriginal Heritage Management aims, plans, recommendations and community consultation.

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.

Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture

Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is a book published by ORO Editions in 2018. The book offers multiple indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice. Indigenous authors explore the making and keeping of places and spaces which are informed by indigenous values and identities. This indigenous expertise combines both architecture and design with a frame of reference that roots this architecture in the indigenous places in which it sits.

Mapping Indigenous Futures: Decolonising Techno-Colonising Designs

The Mapping Indigenous Futures: Decolonising Techno-Colonising Designs provides a critical interrogation of the consequences of modernity and coloniality, particularly in an Aboriginal Australian context, with focus on the accelerating speed of socio-communicative technological change. The paper provides five provocations that illustrate ways in which the nature of modernity enables socio-communicative technologies to increasingly eliminate groups’ capacities to imagine decolonising being-human. It includes application of learnings surrounding decolonising design modes of listening and comprehending that can contribute to help groups think, talk and map their situatedness and mobilise decolonising options for their own worlds.

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.

Indigenous Knowledge in The Built Environment: A Guide for Tertiary Educators

The document is a guide for tertiary educators regarding Indigenous knowledge in the built environment. Published by the Australian Department of Education and Training (DET) in 2018, The Guide is intended as a teaching and learning resource kit for built environment (architecture, landscape architecture, planning) academics, students and professional practitioners. The Guide offers assistance regarding initial protocols and resources that they need to heed, be mindful of, and have available to them.

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.

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.