MTalks—BLAKitecture Cultural Protocols

Cross-cultural design often requires a set of protocols to maintain respect throughout the design process. What are these protocols from Indigenous perspective and how can they be embedded in the way we create the built environment? MPavilion’s third annual BLAKitecture forum brings together Indigenous built environment practitioners on the Yaluk-ut Weelam land of the Boon Wurrung people. The forum aimed to centralise Indigenous voices in conversations about architecture, the representation of histories, the present state and the future of our built environments. BLAKitecture 2019/20 is co-curated by MPavilion’s program consultant Sarah Lynn Rees and Jack Mitchell.