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
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.
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.
Tuesday 25 February 2025
In the second of our webinars, the panel discuss some of the common indigenous practices they have used in international collaborations that centre Indigeneity and look to shape a more positive future. Together they explore the slow death of capitalism, recognising the strengths of both country-led and specific knowledge as well as the shared experiences of the global whānau whānui (extended family).
Wednesday 9 April 2025
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.
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Who gets to tell the story? Which stories get told? Stories hold collective memory, shape cultural identity, and help forge paths to realise possible futures. Efforts to erase Indigenous languages have long been a coloniser’s tool, because shared narratives, held across generations, hold enormous power. This session explores Indigenous story-telling in the cultural contexts of tech and gaming, as well as the visual and performing arts.
Thursday 28 / Friday 29 August 2025
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.
We’d love to hear your story and your unique perspective. If you have a story to share, please get in touch.