Process diagram
Workshops
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Workshop One: Embedding Tasmanian Aboriginal Presence at Inveresk This workshop included an update on the masterplanning process at Inveresk, and conversations about ‘visioning’ Riawunna’s presence at Inveresk, as well as highlighting a governing philosophy required for this to meaningfully take place. Workshop Two: Developing the Knowledges of Country The purpose of this workshop was to gather a focus group to discuss and produce a statement of philosophy on Aboriginal Culture in Tasmania that could be used for positioning approaches to represent Aboriginal knowledge. Workshop Three: Mapping the Inveresk site The Precinct Plan developed by John Wardle Architects ( JWA) was presented to the members of the Aboriginal Reference Group, and while the focus of the workshop centred on the urban realm, the site was viewed holistically. During discussions, a number of spaces were seen to be of significance to the group in terms of their connection to place and their potential for engagement and community activities as well as locations that could be used for educational projects specifically linked to our first nation peoples. Given the significance of how this project would unfold, the group felt that the approach used to inform what would happen on the site should be connected to the current Riawunna centre and the philosophies that informed its design and development ‘in place’. The group decided that it was important to use the same approach that had been originally applied to inform the development of Riawunna at Newnham. In particular the methodology used to identify how landscape and country could be interwoven within the built environment - this is embodied in the Riawunna building, its setting, including the Cultural Garden and its significant array of stones (both Nation and Guardian) and would be of significance when looking at the Inveresk precinct. It is acknowledged that a palpable ‘spirit of place’ resides in the Riawunna garden and stones, the Aboriginal Reference Group unanimously arrived at a key gesture to consider the relocation of the Guardian Stones to the Inveresk site. It was thought that the placement of the Guardian Stones at the key entries to the Inveresk precinct would guard and protect the Inveresk Precinct as a whole, not just Riawunna the centre. Of significance during this process was the idea of connection and gathering and much of the conversation generated was centred around linkages and themes across the site. The group used symbols representing aspects of the design drivers to pictorially display areas/things of particular significance, connection and experiential possibility. This report seeks to interpret this pictorial representation through linking them with the narrative the group weaved during the workshop.
Formation of Tasmanian Aboriginal Reference Group
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Workshop #1 Embedding Tasmanian Aboriginal Presence
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Workshop #2 Developing Knowledges of Country
Knowledges of Country philosophy document
Workshop #3 Cultural Mapping
Workshop #3 outcome Mapping of existing Riawunna Cultural Garden
Workshop #3 outcome Mapping of Inveresk site
Embedding Knowledges of Country at Inveresk document
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