Design : building on country

Resource Information

The work Design : building on country represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Design : building on country

Title remainder

building on country

Statement of responsibility

Alison Page and Paul Memmott

Title variation

Building on country

Creator

• Page, Alison

Contributor

• trueNeale, Margo
• Memmott, Paul
• National Museum of Australia

Author

• Page, Alison
• Memmott, Paul

Editor

• trueNeale, Margo

Subject

• Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
• trueArchitecture and society -- Australia
• Creation -- Mythology -- Australia
• Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)
• Aboriginal Australians -- Architecture and society
• Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
• Architecture -- Designs and plans

Language

eng

Summary

Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied to contemporary practices. Design: Building on Country issues a challenge for a new Australian design ethos, one that truly responds to the essence of Country and its people

Cataloging source

QBOO

Dewey number

305.89915

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

GN665

LC item number

.P34 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

First Knowledges

Target audience

adult