No Design Without Indigenous Design: Extending First Year Design and Architecture Students’ Understanding of Indigenous Australia

Publisher:
STARS
Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
STARS (Students Transition Achievement Retention and Success), 2016
Issue Date:
2016-07-02
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The design professions have undergone immense shifts over recent decades including an overdue, new receptivity to Indigenous skills and knowledge. Universities in Australia are currently examining approaches to engaging Indigenous knowledge in their degrees. This paper examines a project at at the University of Technology (UTS), supported by the institution-wide Centre for Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges and implemented across the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. Specifically, the research asks how first year design and architecture students can learn about Indigenous perspectives on design, space, place and Country. We draw from literature on transition pedagogy as well as Indigenous education and analyse the student response to this project as it was implemented in 2015.
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