Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums

Anoma Pieris

doi:10.5771/9781442264076

Summary

Here is a lavishly illustrated descriptive survey of 48 leading indigenous cultural centers around the world (35 are from Australia and 13 from North America, Japan, Europe, and Asia). The book shows how each is a potentially transformative, politically compelling addition to the field of cultural production, illustrating how the facilities --- all built in the last three decades --- have challenged assumptions about nature, culture, and built form. Using the spatial-temporal practice of place-making as the starting point, the facilities highlighted here are described in terms of collaborations between a number of stake-holders and professional consultants.

The book adopts the format of a descriptive survey with separate chapters devoted to individual case studies. A broad introductory chapter which presents the arguments and overview precedes richly illustrated short individual essays on selected projects. Each chapter commences with the details of the project including, location, area, cost and consultants, followed by a project description, and discussion of background, design development and reception of the projects. Each project is approached as an architectural commission, detailing the critical criteria, consultants, and processes. The format is adopted from architectural review essays typically used in awards or journal publications within the profession which are accessible and relevant for both academics and practitioners. Considerable attention is given to the process, and to the evaluation of the project as a cultural response. Each case study has been written with consultation of architects or administrators of the facilities for accuracy.

Indigenous Cultural Centers and Museums: An Illustrated International Survey documents a rich legacy of collaboration across the spatial disciplines combining creative art practice, architecture, construction, landscape design and urban design in the production of unique and culturally significant social institutions. This book provides material on hitherto unknown bodies of work of talented architectural practices, working collaboratively with culturally different client groups and developing consultative processes that test models for inter-cultural engagement.

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Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-6406-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-6407-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 304
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Plates No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Architectures of Survivance: An Antipodean Perspective No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 1. Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra, Australia No access Pages 21 - 28
Chapter 2. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia No access Pages 29 - 37
Chapter 3. Bangerang Cultural Centre, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 38 - 41
Chapter 4. Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia No access Pages 42 - 47
Chapter 5. Brambuk Cultural Centre, Halls Gap, Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 48 - 54
Chapter 6. Brewarrina Aboriginal Museum, Brewarrina, New South Wales, Australia No access Pages 55 - 63
Chapter 7. Burrinja Cultural Centre, Glenfern Road, Upwey, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 64 - 68
Chapter 8. Edge of the Trees, Museum of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia No access Pages 69 - 72
Chapter 9. Galina Beek Living Cultural Centre, Healesville, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 73 - 77
Chapter 10. Gunung-Willam-Balluk Learning Centre, Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 78 - 81
Chapter 11. Gwoonwardu Mia Gascoyne Aboriginal Heritage and Cultural Centre, Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia No access Pages 82 - 87
Chapter 12. Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia No access Pages 88 - 93
Chapter 13. Karijini Visitor Centre, Karijini, Western Australia, Australia No access Pages 94 - 98
Chapter 14. Koorie Heritage Trust, Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 99 - 107
Chapter 15. Kurongkurl Katitjin Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia No access Pages 108 - 113
Chapter 16. Lake Tyers Training Centre and Lake Tyers Health Centre, Lake Tyers, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 114 - 121
Chapter 17. Living Kaurna Cultural Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia No access Pages 122 - 129
Chapter 18. Minpaku (National Museum of Ethnology), Osaka, Japan No access Pages 130 - 140
Chapter 19. Mossman Gorge Centre, Mossman, Queensland, Australia No access Pages 141 - 144
Chapter 20. Musée du Quai Branly and Universitè Wing, Paris, France No access Pages 145 - 150
Chapter 21. Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada No access Pages 151 - 156
Chapter 22. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand No access Pages 157 - 161
Chapter 23. Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia No access Pages 162 - 167
Chapter 24. National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia No access Pages 168 - 173
Chapter 25. National Museum of the American Indian, New York and Washington, DC, and Cultural Resources Center, Maryland, United States of America No access Pages 174 - 181
Chapter 26. Needwonnee Walk, Melaleuca, Tasmania, Australia No access Pages 182 - 189
Chapter 27. Ngarluma Yindjibarndi Cultural Complex, Roebourne, Western Australia, Australia No access Pages 190 - 196
Chapter 28. Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos, Canada No access Pages 197 - 203
Chapter 29. Port Augusta Courts, Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia No access Pages 204 - 209
Chapter 30. Reconciliation Place, Canberra, Australia No access Pages 210 - 216
Chapter 31. Riawunna Centre, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia No access Pages 217 - 223
Chapter 32. Rumbalara Medical Clinic, Mooroopna and Rumbalara Elders Care Facility, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 224 - 229
Chapter 33. Sámi Parliaments, Norway, Sweden, and Finland No access Pages 230 - 239
Chapter 34. Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, Taipei, Taiwan No access Pages 240 - 247
Chapter 35. Tiagarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Museum, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia No access Pages 248 - 251
Chapter 36. Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, Caravonica, Queensland, Australia No access Pages 252 - 257
Chapter 37. Tjulyuru Cultural and Civic Centre, Warburton Aboriginal Community, Western Australia, Australia No access Pages 258 - 261
Chapter 38. Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre, Northern Territory, Australia No access Pages 262 - 268
Chapter 39. Wilcannia Health Service, Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia No access Pages 269 - 274
Chapter 40. Worn Gundidj, Tower Hill, Victoria, Australia No access Pages 275 - 279
Chapter 41. Yagan Memorial Park, Belhus, Western Australia, Australia No access Pages 280 - 288
Glossary of Terms No access Pages 289 - 290
Bibliography No access Pages 291 - 302
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 303 - 304