What is Blak design?

Bringing Indigenous culture into design has moved beyond tokenistic firepits to issues of access and social justice.
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Ngarara Place at RMIT University’s city campus by Greenaway Architects. Image: Peter Casamento.

‘Is Aboriginal art only accepted in the western canon when it suits a capitalist agenda?’

This is a question Kimberley Moulton asked in her essay that accompanied the exhibition Sovereignty curated by Paola Balla. Urban planner Timmah Ball repeated it at a recent panel on Blak design, presented by the Koorie Heritage Trust with Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria (IADV) as part of Melbourne Design Week.

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Brooke Boland
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Brooke Boland is a freelance writer based on the South Coast of NSW. She has a PhD in literature from the University of NSW. You can find her on Instagram @southcoastwriter.