What does it mean to design and build on unceded, First Nations land? This question prompts us to reflect on where we’re at as an industry and to begin the dialogue required to understand whose Country we are on. Examining business-as-usual practices and grounding design processes in Country are important steps in moving towards a more equitable built environment. We are always on someone’s Country, and where we are geographically is where we are culturally.
What is material specificity? The stranger is much struck by the handsome appearance given by the profuse use of cedar in the fittings of the Sydney dwellings.
— Lieutenant-colonel Godfrey Mundy, 1848
On 22 February 2022, Lismore and the greater Northern Rivers region of New South
