Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing

Professor Norm Sheehan is currently the Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (UQ), Co-Chair of the Vice Chancellor’s UQ Reconciliation Action Plan Oversight Committee, a member of the UQ School of Education Advisory Council, and an expert advisor of Indigenous research to the UQ Human Research Ethics Committee. Dr David S. Jones is Professor (Research) at Monash University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. Josh Creighton has worked in Indigenous pedagogical design for over a decade and received the Southern Cross University Medal in 2020 after graduating with First Class Honours in Indigenous Knowledge from Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples. Sheldon (SJ) Harrington is a young local Widjabul artist from the Bundjalung Nation on the Far North Coast of New South Wales.

Foreword; Introduction: Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing – Voices of Country; Part I: Voices of Country – Chapter 1 Indigenous Ontology; Chapter 2 Country; Chapter 3 Thoughts; Part 2: Surveying the Lands and Waters – Chapter 4 Indigenous Knowledge in Urban Indigenous Communities; Chapter 5 Cultures of Design: Nurturing design communities on common ground; Chapter 6 Gongan Business Model – Working across the Cultural Interface of Business; Chapter 7 Expression of a Gumbaynggirr Research Methodology: An Ontological Framework for Inquiry on Gumbaynggirr Country; Part 3: Narrating of Lands and Waters – Chapter 8 Recasting Roles as Sovereign Peoples; Chapter 9 Navigating Narrating: applied practice and conversations; Part 4: Listening to Lands and Waters – Chapter 10 Give before you ask: Falling in love with Country; Chapter 11 I’m a wandering Auntie; Chapter 12 Wisdom; Chapter 13 Winanga-y (understanding) burrbiyaan (the self) through the Processes of Learning and Teaching as Gamilaraay; Chapter 14 Learning from Country and Engaging with Community; Chapter 15 Visual Pattern Thinking Through Indigenous Respectful Design Systems and Ants.