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The material collected on this site was initiated as a book Indigenous Engineering for an Enduring Culture

The book Indigenous Engineering for an Enduring Culture edited by Cat Kutay, Elyssebeth Leigh, Juliana Kaya Prpic and Lyndon Ormond-Parker was published in 2022 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing and is available as an eBook, hardback and paperback. You can place orders on their site for the book and on Google Play for the ebook. The stories here are an introduction to the book and its authors.

More stories will be added by those who register and can contribute further information about their own projects. We will put up instructions how to do this privately, within community, then how to publish as collection you have gathered on your community, such as information that may encourage tourism or language learning relating to Care for Country.

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Painting by Payi “Cables - Technology and Engineering”, April 2022.

The artist is Payi Linda Ford a Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu woman. Payi Linda Ford’s Country is Kurrindju southwest of Darwin on the Finniss and Reynold’s Rivers, Northern Territory, in Australia. My painting title: “Cables -Technology and Engineering”.

Aboriginal Housing

There is a large body of technical reports on town planning and architectural design of Indigenous houses. These suggest guidelines for successful designs in remote areas.

Thuwarri Thaa (Wilgie Mia): Ancient Aboriginal Mining Technology in Cultural Context

Thuwarri Thaa is an enormous, awe-inspiring underground Aboriginal ochre mine that was nationally heritage listed in 2011 in recognition of its high cultural significance and for the unique evidence it preserves of ancient Aboriginal mining...

The Duality of Metric Concepts of Contemporary Indigenous Australian Lifeways: Kinship Categories and Numbers

The metric system of measuring - metres and kilometres; litres as cubic decimetres; grams and tons. We learn and teach the series of names with their precise relations in primary school classrooms.

The Aboriginal Technical Worker (ATWORK) in the 21st Century: A critical reflection on decolonising technical curriculum to privilege community technological empowerment

In 1989 the Australian Conference of TAFE Directors approved funding for the Centre for Appropriate Technology in Alice Springs as a place to research and develop a new response to the rise of housing and health hardware maintenance needs...

Fire Management and Information Technology

NAILSMA has been working for more than a decade to ensure that people recognise the value of Indigenous knowledge and properly respect it and the people who own it.

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