AGAVE – Furniture / sculpture / space
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.
The Agave is an example of a ‘way of co-becoming’. It is an Indigenous relational design where Country, knowledge and people are deeply interconnected. The Agave’s significance occurs while using it, when people become bound in its energy, its mobility, and its flexibility. The Agave allows for reflecting, creating, and making, either communally or individually. The Agave allows me, as Indigenous designer, to connect with my ancestors to recover and conserve knowledge and then share it.
Awarded the Designers Australia Awards 2023, Award of Merit
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Investigators
- Dr Desiree Ibinarriaga, Monash Art, Design and Architecture
