Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion.
Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices. Design: Building on Country issues a challenge for a new Australian design ethos, one that truly responds to the essence of Country and its people.
About the series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors; the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia.
Other titles in the series include: Songlines by Margo Neale & Lynne Kelly (2020); Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021); Plants by Zena Cumpston, Michael Fletcher & Lesley Head (2022); Astronomy (2022); Law (2023).
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Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion.
Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices. Design: Building on Country issues a challenge for a new Australian design ethos, one that truly responds to the essence of Country and its people.
About the series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors; the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia.
Other titles in the series include: Songlines by Margo Neale & Lynne Kelly (2020); Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021); Plants by Zena Cumpston, Michael Fletcher & Lesley Head (2022); Astronomy (2022); Law (2023).
*Ebook available through all major etailers*
The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future. Exploring practices such as architecture and design, land management, botany, astronomy and law, this six-book series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. The second book focuses on design.
Alison Page is a Walbanga and Wadi Wadi woman from
Tharawal and Yuin nations. She is an award winning designer, artist
and film producer whose career links Indigenous stories and
traditional knowledge with contemporary design. She is Associate
Dean at the University of Technology, Sydney's Design Architecture
and Building Faculty.
Paul Memmott is a descendant of Scottish potters and
painters. He has had a 50-year life experience and career working
as an architect, anthropologist and agent for change with
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia. He
is a transdisciplinary researcher based at University of
Queensland, recognising the need to join with Indigenous
communities and organisations to bring transformative approaches to
improving quality of lifestyle and wellbeing in the face of
longitudinal disadvantage and the endeavour for self-determination.
One of his books, Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal
Architecture of Australia, won three national book awards.
A major step forward in building a deeper understanding by all
Australians of what 'Country' is: that everything is part of the
same continuum - nature, land, sea, sky, humans and what they
design and build and how they learn about and respond to Country.
Design and architecture are not nouns, they are verbs. To
understand Country, its Songlines and knowledge has never been more
important.
*Lucy Turnbull AO*
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