First Knowledges: Design Phar Lap Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity reveals

Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity reveals novel and creative practices such as: body shaping

and more Makerspace educator Ryan Jenkins inspires kids aged 8 to 12 to look at familiar supplies in new and unexpected ways

a blueprint for traditional food growing and land management processes based on very old practices

we are surrounded by conversations about what and how we eat

Imagine herds of two-tonne Diprotodon roaming the plains

First Knowledges: Design Phar Lap Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity revealsAboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied