As an anthropologist I was led into Aboriginal ethnography, material culture, social organisation, kinship and land tenure, and then into consultancy on land claims in the Northern Territory in the 1980s and native title claims in a number of states during the 1990s. I have had an unusual intertwined career as an anthropologist, architect and university researcher.
Design: Building on Country issues a challenge for a new Australian design ethos, one that truly responds to the essence of Country and its people.About the series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia.Other titles in the series include: Songlines by Margo Neale & Lynne Kelly (2020) Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021) Plants by Zena Cumpston, Michael Fletcher & Lesley Head (2022) Astronomy (2022) Innovation (2023). It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion.Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices.
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country.
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