Material specificity: A ‘radically conservative’ approach

As a transformative profession, architecture inevitably impacts the Country whose materials it consumes. By grounding design processes in Country and embracing the nuances of place, we can achieve fit-for-purpose built outcomes that could exist nowhere else, explains Michael McMahon.

Yuwaya Ngarra-li

Yuwaya Ngarra-li (“vision”) is a community-led, long-term partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG) and UNSW. The aim of this partnership is to improve the wellbeing, built and physical environments, and life pathways of the Aboriginal community of Walgett, NSW.

Country Culture Community: A centuries overdue conference

In this article, Jack Gillmer discusses the Country Culture Community conference, an event that took place the University of Tasmania. At the conference, practitioners and community leaders shared their experience working within the intersection of Country, culture, community and the built environment. In discussing the conference, Gillmer explains the need for activism and social change to flip the script to decolonise practice and process.

A Country-centred approach to civic biodiversity

The article takes a Country-centred approach to civic biodiversity. It outlines Indigenous Knowledge and how they can be applied to the built environment through Indigenised biodiversity.