If form follows function (as per Aboriginal design), and you add narrative – is this the poetic landscape architecture that Catherin Bull (Aus. landscape architect) talks about? Should design communication be 2D + 3D? Space is always experienced through time. Maybe it should be more like Indigenous paintings? Possessing a visual component, but requiring [...]
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Design informed by Indigenous culture
Posted in Indigenous Inspiration on March 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Australian Bush foods
Posted in Indigenous Inspiration on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BUSH FOOD Tarnuk Bush Food and Flowers Postal Address: P.O. Box 274 Korumburra, Victoria 3950 Telephone: 03 5659 8238 Email: gilmem@dcsi.net.au Stock a range of bush food plants (Bulk orders – 10 or 50) supply sometimes varies CERES Permaculture and Bushfood Nursery Postal Address: 8 Lee Street, East Brunswick, Victoria 3057 Telephone: 03 9387 4403 Fax: 03 9381 [...]
Ernie Dingo, Sustainable Living Festival 2009
Posted in Indigenous Inspiration, tagged ernie dingo, queenie mckenzie, written in the land on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 2009 Sustainable Living Festival was opened by Ernie Dingo and the launch of Jennifer Joi Field’s book ‘WRITTEN IN THE LAND: The Life of Queenie McKenzie’. Ernie’s (or should I say Oondamooroo, his traditional name) speech was powerful – an audience of school children sat absorbed, abruptly exposed to another side of this familiar [...]

