For many millennia, Indigenous Australians have engineered our landscape. From an ochre mine to fish traps, here are five remarkable examples of First Nations technical know-how.
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A consultative approach to designing digital technologies can prevent the structures that keep Indigenous people marginalised in the real world from being replicated in the digital world.
From the Budj Bim acquaculture system to the Aboriginal flag, Australia has a long history of Indigenous design excellence. Here is our pick of 10 contemporary design classics.
A strengthening movement of Indigenous designers and developers is working to show Indigenous cultures, teachings, languages and ways of knowing through video games.
For over a thousand generations Aboriginal people made no distinction between art and craft. Art was, and still is, a way of life and as much about function as it is about beauty and form. Artistic forms…
It’s not difficult to find reference to Indigenous ethnographic designs in contemporary Australia. Motifs from Adelaide’s Balarinji Design Studios coat Qantas’ Boeing fleet and elders wore Victorian possum…
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Screen and Design, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Practices, Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, The University of Melbourne
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Operations Coordinator, Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Media and Information and Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures, Michigan State University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Technology, Charles Darwin University, University of Technology Sydney
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Director (Indigenous Engagement), Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
