Designing With Country

Troy Casey – Co-Director Blaklash. Troy is passionate about harnessing economic opportunities to create positive social change for First Nations Australians. He combines his extensive community engagement experience spanning the government, not-for-profit and higher education sectors, with his curatorial practice, working collaboratively with communities to ensure First Nations voices are embedded across projects within public art, placemaking, and urban design.

Kevin O'Brien - Kevin O’Brien is an architect and principal at BVN Architecture. He has established a Designing with Country methodology for the practice that now influences all architectural and urban design projects. The most recent example being the QUT Campus to Country: Positioning Strategy that will guide the future direction of the campus and outlines QUTS’s aspiration of its place reflective of culture both past and present.

Erin McDonald - Erin is a proud Aboriginal woman who embeds her culture throughout the design process. She pushes the boundaries through a holistic approach in translating Indigenous technologies to embed cultural identity into the built environment. Erin is passionate about educating designers to think innovatively in an approach to provide economic growth for communities.

Lyndon Davis - Lyndon Davis is an Indigenous presenter, performer, educator and artist. Lyndon was born and raised on the Sunshine Coast and is a Traditional Custodian and representative of the Local Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi people.

The night will feature a preview of 'Beeyali' - a new projection work developed by Lyndon Davis in collaboration with Leah Barclay and Tricia King at USC.

Beeyali was awarded the 2021 New Light commission from the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) and premiered at Illuminate Adelaide in association with Adelaide Festival Centre’s Moving Image program.

Beeyali is a Kabi Kabi word meaning ‘to call’. This project visualises the calls of wildlife on Kabi Kabi Country using cymatics, the science of visualising acoustic energy or sound. Beeyali involved a series of experiments using new technologies and different environmental materials to reveal cymatics, including ochre, water and digital photography. This project provides new ways to connect to the environment and discover connections between Indigenous knowledge, science, emerging technology and design.