On creative solutions
Before he died Paul Boero was working on Indigenous housing as an architect—he went into remote communities and looked at the issue of trachoma and worked out it was a house design issue—the way that houses were designed let all the dust came in. There were also issues with?? . So he made a few […]
On working with AI
I guess we would need an AI ‘Dreaming’ … which means carefully considering what the dangers are and then writing a new Dreaming story that would weight everything up so that AI doesn’t run rampant. I mean, there’s a Dreaming for everything. It’s about being considered in your decision making … that’s what good design […]
On working with place
Working with Country really taps into people’s need to connect to enduring stories, our need for tradition and ceremony. If you look at the broader cultural landscape there are spiritual and potent stories in every place that are very unique, which is a really interesting proposition for urban designers because the world is getting very […]
On the new Indigenous Institute for Designing with Country at UTS
The Indigenous Institute For Design with Country is a cross-disciplinary design lab specialising in Country-centred design thinking in the real world, bringing together designers, land management experts, community leaders, and thinkers from all backgrounds and disciplines to look at storytelling and placemaking. We’re going back to a First Nations concept of storytelling, which is about […]
On why working across disciplines is essential
Designing with Country is really about that dialogue between designers and architects and landscape architects and traditional owners so that you can bring together the best of traditional knowledges and Western technology to create the best cities in the world, the best places in the world that speak to us the way our country did […]
On why putting Indigenous storytelling at the heart of what we do is good for Australia
Australian design is 65,000 years old. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders didn’t have the written word. Everything was encoded in stories which were embedded in the land in geographic locations and in objects around us—painted onto bodies, danced, and sung. It was a multi-artform way of recording information. This allowed us to remember the vast […]