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Design: Building on Country

Alison Page and Paul Memmott have written this timely and powerful book as part of a First Knowledges series, edited by Margo Kneale, which brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors in an act of reconciliation. Design: Building on Country (Thames and Hudson, 2021) draws on Indigenous knowledges to illuminate how design can become an expression of respect for Country, and how it can begin to “pick the scabs and allow country to breathe again” (page 17). It is a call to the design professions to accept and step

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