Wave Hill Walk-Off Pavilions: Attachment to the Land

Bower Studio, expanding design practices, Low Density, Project, Repair, Territory and mobility

Australia, Collective Awareness, Colonialism, Community, Connections, Consulting community, Cultural identity, Design, Design process, Diversity, Ecosystem, Educational, Human rights, indigenous, Inhabiting Landscape, Landscape, Pavilion, Post-industrial Landscape, Project, Refugees, repair, Shelter, Sustainability, Territorial Approach, Tradition

Photography: Linda Tegg and David Fox
The reader may like to watch the documentary of the Wave Hill Walk-off story: Ripples from Wave Hill, directed by Elton Rosas and Jeremy Boylen.

The indigenous Gurindji people pioneered the Australian land rights movement, protesting against their exploitation by an international grazing company that had stolen their land and forced its people to work for low pay and in terrible conditions. In August 1966 the Gurindji walked off the Wave Hill Cattle Station and went on strike over the mistreatment of their people and their land.