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Educating for designing in and planning for country: Empowering built environment students with Indigenous protocols and knowledge

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posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00 authored by David Jones, D Low Choy, Richard TuckerRichard Tucker, G Revell, S Heyes, Susan Bird
Increasingly, built environment professionals in Australia, including architect, landscape architect and planner practitioners, are becoming involved in planning and design of projects for, and in direct consultation with Indigenous communities and their proponents. Critically, built environment professionals must be able to plan and design, and demonstrate respect for Indigenous protocols, cultural issues and their community values. Yet many students graduate with little or no comprehension of Indigenous knowledge systems or the protocols for engagement with Australian or international Indigenous communities in which they are required to work. This paper reports on a recently completed Office of Learning & Teaching funded project that was designed to improve the knowledge and skills of tertiary students in the built environment professions including proposing strategies and processes to expose students in the built environment professions to Australian Indigenous knowledge systems. This is a positive beginning in a long-term decolonising project.

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Journal

Journal of Australian Indigenous issues

Volume

19

Issue

1-2

Pagination

176 - 192

Publisher

Swinburne University

Location

Melbourne, Victoria

ISSN

1440-5202

Indigenous content

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Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, Swinburne University of Technology

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