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Unsettling Queenstown: Questions of decolonisation at the Venice Biennale

Unsettling Queenstown: Questions of decolonisation at the Venice Biennale

The Australian pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale involves confronting questions of decolonisation in architectural form and history. Unsettling Queenstown looks at the ubiquitous presence of British colonialism.

“The most successful projects are those that reflect an authentic culture”

“The most successful projects are those that reflect an authentic culture”

Featured in the new Indesign magazine, now on sale, Warren and Mahoney’s Melbourne studio has been conceptualised through strong cultural narratives. Principal Daryl Maguire shares how the practice led with heart to achieve a symbiotic response that also met key workplace objectives.

Blak Design Matters – First Nations design forum coming up in Melbourne

Blak Design Matters – First Nations design forum coming up in Melbourne

The upcoming Blak Design Matters forum in Melbourne will explore First Nations design with panel discussions on ownership of identity, cultural appropriation and misappropriation more.

Industry consortium sponsors First Nations runway at Melbourne’s fashion festival

Industry consortium sponsors First Nations runway at Melbourne’s fashion festival

Fashion festival season is almost upon us and this year a consortium of design, property and construction firms is putting its support behind First Nations designers on the Urban Oasis Runway at PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

“Caring for Country is infinite, community is critical”: Hobsons Bay Wetlands Centre

“Caring for Country is infinite, community is critical”: Hobsons Bay Wetlands Centre

The Hobsons Bay Wetland Centre is an Australian-first in biophilic and community co-design architecture, writes McGregor Coxall’s Nick Griffin.

Welsh + Major leading the way with new building typology

Welsh + Major leading the way with new building typology

Welsh + Major recently won the design excellence competition for a major warehouse and distribution complex in St Peters, Sydney. The latest here.

Discover what the future holds for commercial design

Discover what the future holds for commercial design

The first local design event of its kind for several years, Brisbane Designscape provides a unique opportunity for design-minded professionals to explore new solutions, trends and innovations that will shape the commercial spaces of the future.

To create amazing things we must work together

To create amazing things we must work together

Beyond the realm of academia, RMIT’s administrative offices, or RMIT Our Place, by ARM Architecture called for a series of curated, tech-savvy spaces to appeal to its diversity of workers.

Steelcase’s Reconciliation Action Plan focuses on a shared future

Steelcase’s Reconciliation Action Plan focuses on a shared future

Steelcase recently hosted an inviting and vibrant celebration to launch its Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan engaging with First Nations people across the greater Sydney region and beyond.

Breville uses products as canvas for Indigenous Australian storytelling

Breville uses products as canvas for Indigenous Australian storytelling

Launching last week in Sydney, Aboriginal designer and curator Alison Page and Breville announced an extraordinary partnership with First Nations People and the National Museum of Australia.

Powerhouse team: The cultural leaders shaping the museum’s public domain

Powerhouse team: The cultural leaders shaping the museum’s public domain

The Powerhouse Parramatta’s Landscape Curatorium comprises a group of esteemed individuals advising on First Nations landscape design, farming, caring for Country, and more. Their goal? To assist in the development of the landscape design for the museum’s public domain.

Stylecraft and TAFE NSW launch First Nations design scholarship

Stylecraft and TAFE NSW launch First Nations design scholarship

Stylecraft, with its demonstrated commitment to social justice, and TAFE NSW have announced a new First Nations Interior Design Scholarship.