Academic research

This book introduces a transformative approach to design theory and practice, grounded in Indigenous knowledges, methodologies, and methods.

An Indigenous-led study of the significance of trees in southeast Australian Aboriginal cultures.

An Indigenous-led approach to urban water design.

How can Indigenous Design Charters improve engagement with Indigenous knowledge in professional creative practice?

This book introduces a transformative approach to design theory and practice, grounded in Indigenous knowledges, methodologies, and methods.

This project aims to develop a computational framework founded on the growth characteristics of mycelia to enable scalable and consistent re-manufacturing with organic waste. As well as the uses of the material through design practcies.

The Agave furniture sculpture is an Indigenous design that embodies relationality between people and place/Country, is founded on ancestral knowledge, it holds cultural significance, it is functional, sustainable, visually aesthetic, and it facilitates space for ceremony, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous practices. The Agave connects immaterial and material elements of culture. The furniture while using and interact with it transitions to become ‘a space’ with its 14 pillows, this for relaxing, practices and events.

Memorialising the Frontier Wars, an international comparative study.

Creating a major series of large format landscape photographs responding to a massacre site on Dja Dja Wurrung Country.

Visualising erased and disturbed Indigenous sites within Country of Baluk willam of the Woi wurrung and the Nguruk willam of the Boon wurrung located in the area now known as the City of Monash.