![]() ![]() ![]() 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.Ībout 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. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion.Īlison 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. Description - Design: Building on Country by Alison Page Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. ![]()
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