Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Yurlendj-nganjin

Dr David Jones oversees Strategic Planning and Urban Design for the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation in Ballaarat/Ballarat and Djilang/Geelong, Australia. With academic qualifications in planning, landscape architecture and cultural heritage, he has served in various Planning Institute of Australia, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Australia ICOMOS, and international ICOMOS capacities. He is author of Adelaide Park Lands and Squares Cultural Landscape Assessment Study (2007) and co-author of Geelong’s Changing Landscape (2019), Re-casting Terra Nullius Blindness (2017), Creating Healthy Places (2017), and Aboriginal Reconnections (2013), and has contributed to The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (2018).Dr Darryl Low Choy is Professor Emeritus (Environmental and Landscape Planning) and former Head of Planning of the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University, Australia. He was a Visiting Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is the former Chair of the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation’s (QYAC) Land and Sea Management Committee (2011-2021). His research is focused on growth management for developing regions; value-led planning; Indigenous landscape values; resilience and peri-urbanisation of the landscape; company-owned towns; and climate change adaptation for human settlements, amongst others.