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On Country in the Colony - ON DEMAND
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On Country in the Colony - ON DEMAND

On Country in the colony: reflections on relationality for designers - ON DEMAND

1 Formal CPD Point
Available On Demand

While humans have always actively designed the built environment, settlers occupying the continent now called Australia have dramatically transformed and interrupted systems of place, causing significant damage to peoples and ecologies. The revised National Standards of Competency for Architects, 2021, presents an opportunity to reflect carefully on our roles and responsibilities to peoples and place in our work on Aboriginal Country – everywhere on this vast continent. Engaging with critical Indigenous thinkers and designers, how do we understand the invitation to learn to live more lawfully in this place, acknowledging connections to and understanding of Country that stretch over 80,000 years of culture, or since time immemorial? Patrick Wolfe’s theorisation of Settler colonialism – the settlers have come to stay - gives us a framework to reflect upon our inheritance of the settler colonial project, as we collectively grapple with the consequences of the injustices of the past and present, and face the challenges of the future including climate and biodiversity emergency. The past, present and future are connected – how we decide to act now has consequences that reach through time. 

This talk addresses non-Indigenous designers who are seeking a more ethical practice on Aboriginal Country, in relationship with First Peoples, picking up on the non-Indigenous responsibility to engage. It asks how do we engage with First People’s ontologies of Country without continuing the violence and erasure that is our colonial legacy? 

Further resources are also available from the First Nations Resources Hub, The Institute's dedicated platform for built environment professionals seeking to deepen their understanding and practice of culturally respectful and appropriate design for First Nations peoples

 


Image: Wunggurrwil Dhurrung; Phographer: Peter Bennetts; used with permission

 

Overview

This talk addresses non-Indigenous designers who are seeking a more ethical practice on Aboriginal Country, in relationship with First Peoples, picking up on the non-Indigenous responsibility to engage. It asks how do we engage with First People’s ontologies of Country without continuing the violence and erasure that is our colonial legacy?

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course participants should be able to:

  • Explain settler colonial theory and apply this framework in conceptualising the place of architect and architecture in the settler colonial project
  • Articulate your understanding of First People's ontologies of Country, and the role of non-Indigenous peoples in relation to caring for Country 
  • Critically reflect on the responsibility of non-Indigenous designers to work towards more ethical practice on Aboriginal Country


NSCA 2015 Performance Criteria

This course will deliver outcomes related to the following Competencies from the 2015 National Standard of Competency for Architects:

DESIGN: PRE-DESIGN
2.1 Identification, analysis and integration of information relevant to siting of project.
2.6 Preparation and analysis of project development options in response to project brief. 

DESIGN: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
3.3 Design response incorporates assessment of the physical location and relevant wider regional, contextual and environmental issues.

DESIGN: SCHEMATIC DESIGN
4.2 Evaluation of design options against values of physical, environmental and cultural contexts. 

 

NSCA 2021 Performance Criteria

This course will deliver outcomes related to the following Competencies from the 2021 National Standard of Competency for Architects:

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
PC 8 Be able to implement culturally responsive and meaningful engagement processes that respect the importance of Country and reciprocal relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples across architectural services.

PROJECT INITIATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
PC 17 Have an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ aspirations to care for Country and how these inform architectural design.
PC 27 Understand how to embed the knowledge, worldviews and perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, shared through engagement processes, into the conceptual design in a meaningful, respectful and appropriate way. 

Speaker

EMILY COX
SENIOR DESIGNER, GRESLEY ABAS

Emily is a white European settler descended woman, living and working on unceded Wurrundjerri Country. Her collaborative design practice centres relations with peoples and place in the built environment, to work towards more just and sustainable futures for all. With a community development background, Emily has extensive project experience as engagement and Interior Design lead working in urban, regional, and remote contexts across Victoria, WA, QLD and the NT. Recent work with Gresley Abas includes Wunggurrwil Dhurrung, Moondani Balluk refurbishment, Nairm Marr Djambana masterplan and the Re-imagining Masterplan for Brambuk, in collaboration with Greg Burgess, with whom she have worked since 2010. Emily is co-chair of the Architecture and Design Reconciliation Industry Network Group (A&D RING), and is completing a Masters by Research at the University of Melbourne, investigating the relational ethic for non-Indigenous designers of the built environment working on unceded Aboriginal Country.
  

Price 

FORMAL CPD:
Non Members $74
Members $49 
  
  
 

What Do I Do Next?

1. This is an On Demand course available for you to complete online. 
2.     You will receive an automated registration email upon purchase. Follow the link in this email to take you to the course material on our online CPD platform.
3. You may have to click the green "log in via members site"  button to log into the online CPD platform. (Please do not input your credentials into the CPD site. Instead, to log in hit the “log in via members site” green button). You may be redirected to our members portal to log in with your credentials there.
4. Accept the T&Cs if it is your first time on the online platform, and hit “my dashboard” to find your purchased course.
5. Undertake your course at your own pace.
6. Once you have completed all the course material, you will be prompted to complete your assessment and feedback, after which your formal CPD certificate will be made available

 
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