She is one of only a handful of Indigenous interior designers working in Australia today. 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 series: The First Knowledges books are co-authored by Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia.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). Alison is a Tharawal woman from La Perouse in Sydney. Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & IssuesĪboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country.
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