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Shell midden at Weipa, Queensland. Copyright: Commonwealth of Australia (National Archives of Australia) 2019.

Object and Spirituality: Building on Country

Alison Page, Foreground, May 2021

In an extract from Alison Page and Paul Memmott’s book, Design: Building on Country, Alison Page details how Aboriginal design principles have 'respect for Country at its core'.

Cities like Sydney are lacquered with so many impermeable layers of Western thinking that architects, designers and builders must decide how each new layer can dig below the surface and reveal the original story of Country. How can we, as designers, pick the scabs and allow the country to breathe again?

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