11345 Starting with Country
6cpRequisite(s): 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10413 Bachelor of Design Architecture Master of Architecture OR 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10004 Bachelor of Design Architecture OR 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10325 Bachelor of Design Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10271 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10322 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10272 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of International Studies OR 144 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C09079 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours)
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Description
Starting with Country, students begin to decolonise the unique remnant ecologies of what we now know as central Sydney. Throughout the ongoing destructive process of Colonisation, these spaces have been given associations such as diseased, death, plagued and gendered, binary categorisations. An example of these denigrations can be found in the casuarina labelled as “she oak” by settlers due to it being ‘deemed’ useless, frail and difficult. However, Country here holds Millenia old knowledges, cultural practices and Ceremony, all in a complex, interconnected and interrelated with lifeworlds.
How can we reclaim and decolonise these spaces of stigma?
How can the urban park support practices of care for Country, her Peoples, her ecologies?
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