Tag: indigenous
The proposed Australian Pavilion at this year’s now postponed Venice Architecture Biennale was carefully orchestrated to be inclusive of our First Nations people and our neighbours. We caught up with Jefa Greenaway and Tristan Wong to talk about why that’s all the more important, regardless of the postponement, and how architects and designers can start […]
We have chosen to republish this 2018 piece in light of the Black Lives Matter protests currently taking place across the world. This is part of Australian Design Review’s commitment to advocating for the mending of racial inequities in Australian architecture and design industries. Hosted on the Yalukit Willam land of the Boon Wurrung people, […]
Listen, live and learn: AR talks to three architects embracing Indigenous culture in their design practice. As a young graduate starting out on his architectural career with the Aboriginal Housing Company in Sydney in 1986, Yugembir man Dillon Kombumerri was a little wary of the idea of non- Indigenous people interpreting Aboriginal culture in their design […]
Ikea has announced that it has inked it’s first Australian partnership and will be working alongside Australian Indigenous artists from Pwerle Gallery to explore how stories can be interpreted into art. The Swedish furniture company says it’s on a quest to “democratise art” and is “especially curious about how art is influenced through different parts of the world”. “We […]
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