City Building Seminar - May

Dr Shaneen Fantin, Director, People Oriented Design and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland and James Cook University

Join us from 12:30pm on Thursday 23 May at HOTA, Home of the Arts as we look at how the principles of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collaboration complete Australia’s history.

Ros will speak about Balarinji’s rich Aboriginal interpretive framework that connects local Aboriginal creative and cultural groups to major urban infrastructure projects. Balarinji is delivering a new approach to Australian urban design that translates and embeds a deep Aboriginal layer within the first imaginings of the places where we live and work.

Shaneen will speak about working on remote and regional projects to embed cultural imperatives into design, landscape and place making through intercultural design practice. A process which brings Indigenous decisions to the front and centre of the design process.

Ros Moriarty’s Bio
Formerly a journalist with Radio Australia in Indigenous affairs, women’s issues and the environment, Ros has now spent most of her professional life as Managing Director of Australia’s leading Indigenous design studio, Balarinji, a business she established with her husband, John Moriarty, in 1983. ‘Listening to Country’ is her much-acclaimed first book.

Dr Shaneen Fantin’s Bio
Shaneen is an architect, writer and advocate for intercultural design practice. She has worked collaboratively with Indigenous people on community, housing, health and commercial projects to pursue new design methodologies since 1995. Shaneen recently co-authored a book chapter with Mr Gudju Gudju Fourmile featured in the international Springer publication ‘Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture’.