The separation between cultural memories of water, urban water management processes and the material presence of water in south-east Naarm Melbourne, is the focus of this panel of Monash University researchers from an ARC Linkage Project. Using methods including On Country Learning, archival research and digital mapping, this project challenges siloed approaches through the integration of First Nations ways of knowing with interdisciplinary information. How might this approach facilitate understandings of the relationships between people, land and waterscapes, in the face of continued changes in public environments?
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N'arwee’t Carolyn Briggs is a Boon Wurrung senior elder and chairperson and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation, and Professor in the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab. Her research focuses on cultural memories of water and trees and protocols of engagement with First Nation Peoples. She has been involved in developing and supporting opportunities for Indigenous youth and Boon Wurrung culture for over 50 years.
Laura Harper is a practicing architect and leader of the Master of Architecture Program at Monash University. Laura's research is both architectural and urban, studying material and construction through their systematic connection to wider processes, structures and histories of both the built and natural worlds.
Ana Lara Heyns is a geo-anthropologist and post-doctoral research fellow at the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab. Her research considers urban waterways through the Indigenous paradigm of relationality. She is a co-founder of APR Collective that creates spaces and encounters for social change and the expansion of knowledge.