Indigenous Engineering for an Enduring Culture

Indigenous Engineering for an Enduring Culture
Author: Cat Kutay
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2022-09-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1527587606

For many millennia, Indigenous Australians have been engineering the landscape using sophisticated technological and philosophical knowledge systems in a deliberate response to changing social and environmental circumstances. These knowledge systems integrate profound understanding of country and bring together knowledge of the topography and geology of the landscape, its natural cycles and ecological systems, its hydrological systems and natural resources including fauna and flora. This enables people to manage resources sustainably and reliably, and testifies to a developed, contextualised knowledge system and to a society with agency and the capability to maintain and refine accumulated knowledge and material processes. This book is a recognition and acknowledgement of the ingenuity of Indigenous engineering which is grounded in philosophical principles, values and practices that emphasise sustainability, reciprocity, respect, and diversity, and often presents a much-needed challenge to a Western engineering worldview. Each chapter is written by a team of authors combining Indigenous knowledge skills and academic expertise, providing examples of collaboration at the intersection of Western and Indigenous engineering principles, sharing old and new knowledges and skills. These varied approaches demonstrate ways to integrate Indigenous knowledges into the curricula for Australian engineering degrees, in line with the Australian Council of Engineering Deans’ Position Statement on Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into the engineering curriculum first published in 2017.

Information Technology and Indigenous People

Information Technology and Indigenous People
Author: Dyson, Laurel Evelyn
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006-08-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1599043009

"This book provides theoretical and empirical information related to the planning and execution of IT projects aimed at serving indigenous people. It explores cultural concerns with IT implementation, including language issues & questions of cultural appropriateness"--Provided by publisher.

Data Curation and Information Systems Design from Australasia

Data Curation and Information Systems Design from Australasia
Author: Julie Nichols
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2024-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1804556165

The need for decolonizing mismanagement practices in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, of First Nations peoples’ materials and knowledge has been widely recognised. Authors from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds powerfully challenge entrenched assumptions of knowledge capture and dissemination of the western academy.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies

Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies
Author: Ulrike Felt
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2024-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800377991

This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of science and technology studies (STS). Covering key frameworks, themes and topics, Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin bring together expert contributors to map the development of STS within its historical and intellectual context.

Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
Author: John H. Stubbs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 951
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1003807941

The fourth in a series that documents architectural conservation in different parts of the world, Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice addresses cultural heritage protection in a region which comprises one third of the Earth’s surface. In response to local needs, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands have developed some of the most important and influential techniques, legislation, doctrine and theories in cultural heritage management in the world. The evolution of the heritage protection ethos and contemporary architectural conservation practices in Australia and Oceania are discussed on a national and regional basis using ample illustrations and examples. Accomplishments in architectural conservation are discussed in their national and international contexts, with an emphasis on original developments (solutions) and contributions made to the overall field. Enriched with essays contributed from fifty-nine specialists and thought leaders in the field, this book contains an extraordinary breadth and depth of research and synthesis on the why’s and how’s of cultural heritage conservation. Its holistic approach provides an essential resource and reference for students, academics, researchers, policy makers, practitioners and all who are interested in conserving the built environment.

Planning for Urban Country

Planning for Urban Country
Author: David S. Jones
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2023-12-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9819971926

Planning for Urban Country addresses a major gap in knowledge about the translation of Aboriginal values and Country Plans into Australia’s built environment contexts. How do you ‘heal’ Country if it has been devastated by concrete and bitumen, excavations and bulldozing, weeds and introduced plants and animals, and surface, aerial and underground contaminants? How then do Aboriginal values and Country Plan aspirations address urban environments? In this book, David Jones explores the major First Nations-informed design and planning transformations in Djilang / Greater Geelong since 2020. Included are short-interlinked essays about the political and cultural context, profiles of key exemplar architectural, landscape and corridor projects, a deep explanation of the legislative, policy and statutory precedents, opportunities and environment that has enabled these opportunities, and the how Wadawurrung past-present-future values have been scaffolded into these changes.

At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design

At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Technology Design
Author: Nicola Bidwell
Publisher: Informing Science
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2015
Genre: Communication in community development
ISBN: 1932886990

There is intensified interest in designing information and communication technologies (ICTs) that respond to ways of doing, knowing, and saying that differ from those that dominate in producing ICTs and, in particular, to ‘traditional’ or ‘indigenous’ knowledges. ICT endeavours for indigenous or traditional knowledges (ITK) vary. Some aim to extend ITK digitally and others use ICTs to improve the economic and/or political situation of marginalised groups. This book presents themes that arise in designing to respond to ITK in different cultural, social, physical, and historical contexts.

Encountering Ideas of Place in Education

Encountering Ideas of Place in Education
Author: Emma Rawlings Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003817491

This book draws together theories, research, and practice on knowledges and pedagogies of place across educational settings. Using empirical research on learning across education systems, each chapter highlights different concepts of place in various contexts such as environments, understandings of place like those experienced by communities and opportunities for embedding place in learning. Chapters are co-constructed by authors working collaboratively across different contexts, tackling key themes such as justice, mobilities, changes, and sustainability, through place. The book indicates how educators can apply creative approaches to teaching within, through and about place in education and will therefore be of relevance to a wider range of academics, teachers and practitioners working in early years settings, schools, universities and other educational context.

Science and Sustainability

Science and Sustainability
Author: J. Hendry
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1137430060

Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes. Here, Hendry examines science through these indigenous roots, problematizing the idea that Western science is the only type that deserves that name.