Baaka Cultural Centre by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture revitalises a former general store in Wilcannia into a community-led cultural hub with gallery, language spaces, keeping place and tourism facilities, celebrating Barkandji heritage and shared history.
Transformed uninviting urban block into an open-air museum to reveal the site’s buried First Nations and early colonial histories in the form of a contemporary ruin, fostering truth-telling and reciprocity.
Designing civic architecture for Wilcannia, NSW, this project centres Country, community, and culture, engaging with Barkindji knowledge to create contextually responsive, inclusive spaces through collaborative, research-led design.
Transdisciplinary Art & Science Resilience Thinking Walkshop:
The Paths of Water proposes a new way of exploring the relationship between cities and
nature through the central role of water.
Architecture of Belonging Studio reframes residual urban spaces as opportunities for sustainable and inclusive transformation.
Introduces architecture students to the First Nations concept of Country to inform their designs and bring respect to Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing