Bangawarra
Bangawarra is a unique partnership of two interdisciplinary creative practitioners who centre transformative strategic, spatial and cultural approaches to Country while celebrating Ancestral stories, knowledges, language and culture. Co-founders and Directors, Dr Shannon Foster and Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, focus on developing meaningful and enduring connections to Country by embedding Aboriginal knowledges into landscape, architecture, built environment, public art, performance and master planning projects. Shannon is a D’harawal eora Knowledge Keeper and Traditional Custodian of the now-Sydney region while Jo is the former Director of Education for Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture at UTS. For the past ten years, the team at Bangawarra have been driven by a shared praxes that revolves around the central belief that when we acknowledge overlooked spatial histories of place and Country, only then can we speculate on more inclusive, culturally rich and sustainable future spaces and places.