Banner image: boonwurrung nairm derp bordupren uther weelam (boonwurrung home/bay Country). Image credit: Rutger Pasman, N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs, Laura Harper, Catherine Murphy
The speakers will explore how water continues to move under, through and across Boonwurrung Country, despite colonial attempts to contain it
Australian cities are Indigenous places, yet their built environments have long been shaped by histories of extraction and environmental change, which have displaced Indigenous memory, materiality and relationships to Country.
This panel brings together Indigenous and non‑Indigenous academics behind the new Melbourne Museum exhibition ngiyama mirrim baany yulendj: reawakening deep water knowledge.
Drawing on the ARC Linkage Project Repairing Memory and Place, the panel explores foregrounding water as a living presence carrying memory, story and responsibility - connecting past and present relationships across Country and over time.
Through examples from Boonwurrung Country - buried wetlands, laang tageek baany (rockwells), laang kagarrak baany (water held in sand), museum collections, and LiDAR scans and maps - the speakers will explore how water continues to move under, through and across Boonwurrung naarm derp bordupren uther weelam (Boonwurrung home/bay Country), despite colonial attempts to contain it.
This event will be held at the Melbourne Museum Theatre, located at the Lower Level of the Museum.
Presented by Monash University Art, Design and Architecture.
Speakers
Professor N'arwee't Carolyn Briggs AM (Boonwurrung/Wemba Wemba), Senior elder, Boonwurrung Land and Sea Council, Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, Monash University
Professor Brian Martin (Bundjalung, Kamilaroi, Muruwari), Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, ARC Future Fellow, Monash University
Dr Laura Harper, Department of Architecture, Monash University
Dr Ana Cristina Lara Heyns, Urban Water Ways Team, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Associate Professor Marilu Melo Zurita, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Sydney
Associate Professor Catherine Murphy, Director, Master of Urban Planning and Design, Department of Architecture, Monash University