Protocols for Indigenous-led creative practice

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

  • Investigators

      • Jefa Greenaway
        • Director Greenaway Architects
      • Dr Russell Kennedy
        • Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University
      • Associate Professor Meghan Kelly
        • Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University
      • Howard Munroe
        • Ontario College of Art and Design University
      • Jason Baerg
        • Ontario College of Art and Design University

  • Higher degree by research candidates

      • Brandi Salmon
        • Monash Art, Design and Architecture
      • Elly Chatfield
        • Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University

  • Research support

      • Jahkarli Romanis
      • Dr Jessica Neath
        • Monash Art, Design and Architecture

  • Funded by

    • Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Scheme (IN220100066)

  • Undertaken within

Photo: Boonwurrung man David Tournier leads the Yarning Circle, Melbourne Museum, October 2023. Photo by Jahkarli Romanis

This project investigates the Australian Indigenous Design Charter (2016) and the related International Indigenous Design Charter (2018), which the Chief Investigators co-authored, questioning how Indigenous Design Charters can improve engagement with Indigenous Knowledge in professional creative practice including architectural, art and design projects.

The objectives of this research are to:

  • Advance knowledge about the effectiveness of practice-based protocols in improving engagement with and representation of Indigenous Knowledge in professional creative practice.
  • Create a new approach to researching the benefits and impacts of practice-based protocols in art, design and architecture that is based in a methodology of relationality and Indigenous ways of knowing.
  • Strengthen national and international collaboration between practice-based researchers in Australia and Canada in the field of Indigenous Knowledge.
  • Provide new resources and methods that build cultural capacity and competency within professional creative practice to improve engagement with Indigenous Knowledge.
  • Increase the number of Indigenous people employed in professional creative practice, both in industry and higher degrees by research.

International Indigenous Design Charter

https://www.theicod.org/storage/app/media/resources/International_IDC_book_small_web.pdf

News

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/world/australia/jefa-greenaway-indigenous-architecture.html

https://architectureau.com/articles/international-indigenous-design-charter-nightingale-win-big-at-vic-premiers-design-awards/