Indigenising Design brings together like-minded individuals from across the globe to discuss, unpack and explore the ways in which our world is designed.

UPCOMING WEBINAR

Indigenising Physical Spaces

Our relationship with the natural environment shapes and informs how we create the built environment. Entangled legacies of empire and environmental destruction are being addressed through contemporary architectural responses informed by Indigenous design processes. We are learning from the past to support the present and provide for the future.

SCHEDULE

Tuesday 19th November 2024

Our relationship with the natural environment shapes and informs how we create the built environment. Entangled legacies of empire and environmental destruction are being addressed through contemporary architectural responses informed by Indigenous design processes. We are learning from the past to support the present and provide for the future.

Wednesday 26th February 2025

By its very nature, colonisation exerts its force well beyond national borders, and the impact continues over generations. No country is untouched by colonisation – how can we take a global perspective on this global system to progress decolonisation?

April 2025

Indigenising Fashion and Entrepreneurship

Western fashion houses have long appropriated fabrics, textiles and clothing styles from Indigenous cultures. Meet those who are taking back their narratives and running successful businesses benefiting their communities.

June 2025

Indigenising Gaming and Story-Telling

Author Chinua Achebe wrote, “until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”. Gaming is an incredible industry - there are over 3bn active video game players around the world. Here, lions are telling their own stories.

August 2025

Indigenous Sustainability and Ecology

Industrialisation, involving mass extraction of natural resources and the production of pollutant waste, is choking the planet. With customary knowledge stretching over millennia, Indigenous understandings of land, sea, and sky have a crucial role to play in our shared sustainability.

September 2025

Indigenous-Led Digital Futures

There is no escaping the opportunities and challenges of AI – how are Indigenous designers taking a leading role in navigating and shaping digital realms?

PANELISTS

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Indigenising Design celebrates the identities, customs, stories and practices that make our indigenous communities unique. 



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