First Knowledges Design: Building on Country by Alison Page and Paul Memmott

First Knowledges Design: Building on Country by Alison Page and Paul MemmottAboriginal 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

a character flaw

'A marvel' Sunday Express

and helps us see our human world more clearly

while the apparatus that concealed his crimes is portrayed with great realism and clarity

The world Dad and I have created

watching the cricket

000 years in the making

With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest

the Indigenous experience in colonised nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing

And the scars still run deep

When an act of terrible violence breaks the peace of the Oxford night

while also skewering contemporary mores with brilliant dry wit