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Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures - Australia and Beyond (Paperback)
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Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures - Australia and Beyond (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
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Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point
for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in
settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there
are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that
cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous
cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the
interests of tourists but fail to nourish the cultural interests of
Indigenous stakeholders; and places for vibrant community gathering
that fail to garner the economic and politic support to remain
viable. Indigenous cultural centres are rarely static. They are
places of 'emergence', assembled and re-assembled along a range of
vectors that usually lie beyond the gaze of architecture. How might
the traditional concerns of architecture - site, space, form,
function, materialities, tectonics - be reconfigured to express the
complex and varied social identities of contemporary Indigenous
peoples in colonised nations? This book, documents a range of
Indigenous Cultural Centres across the globe and the processes that
led to their development. It explores the possibilities for the
social and political project of the Cultural Centre that
architecture both inhibits and affords. Whose idea of architecture
counts when designing Indigenous Cultural Centres? How does
architectural history and contemporary practice territorialise
spaces of Indigenous occupation? What is architecture for
Indigenous cultures and how is it recognised? This ambitious and
provocative study pursues a new architecture for colonised
Indigenous cultures that takes the politics of recognition to its
heart. It advocates an ethics of mutual engagement as a crucial
condition for architectural projects that design across cultural
difference. The book's structure, method, and arguments are
dialogically assembled around narratives told by Indigenous people
of their pursuit of public recognition, spatial justice, and
architectural presence in settler dominated societies.
Possibilities for decolonising architecture emerge through these
accounts.
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