This New Australian Design will improve the wellbeing of people and create places that ultimately mean more to all of us. Our objects, interiors and places can be an extension of the Songlines that crisscross this country in every direction and are a web of knowledge embedded in our everyday lives.
“There is a new awakening fuelled by ecological necessity to redesign our future and the relationship that we as people have with nature and each other. Other titles in the series include: Songlines by Margo Neale & Lynne Kelly (2020) Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021) Plants by Zena Cumpston, Michael Fletcher & Lesley Head (2022) Astronomy (2022) Innovation (2023). Design: Building on Country issues a challenge for a new Australian design ethos, one that truly responds to the essence of Country and its people.Ībout the First Knowledges series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion.Īlison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices. Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country.
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