MPavilion Opening November 2020

MTalks
BLAKitecture: Cultural Protocols

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At the close of the MPavilion season, we’re looking back at some of our favourite MTalks. All MTalks are available via our Library, or subscribe to the MPavilion podcast via Soundcloud.

Cross-cultural design often requires a set of protocols to maintain respect throughout the design process. What are these protocols from Indigenous perspective and how can they be embedded in the way we create the built environment?

MPavilion’s third annual BLAKitecture forum brought together Indigenous built environment practitioners on the Yaluk-ut Weelam land of the Boon Wurrung people. The forum aimed to centralise Indigenous voices in conversations about architecture, the representation of histories, the present state and the future of our built environments.

BLAKitecture 2019/20 was co-curated by MPavilion’s program consultant Sarah Lynn Rees and Jack Mitchell.

In collaboration with

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.