MTalks—BLAKitecture: Indigenising Procurement

Revisit a conversation exploring how existing project procurement models can work for both Indigenous communities and built environment practitioners. How can we modify the models to work more significantly with Indigenous protocols, narratives, communities and Traditional Owners to achieve better partnerships, collaborations, processes and outcomes? MPavilion’s second annual BLAKitecture forum brought 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 2018 was curated by MPavilion’s program consultant Sarah Lynn Rees.