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provided through personal communications and recordings in accordance with consents and permissions provided and previously published in my PhD thesis work.
1
5.1 Introduction
According to Aboriginal belief, all life as it is today is part of one vast unchanging network of relationships,
which can be traced back to the Great Ancestors of the Dreamtime (Veronica Brodie, Kaurna Elder, 1994, p. 4).
The accumulated Australian Aboriginal knowledge on the environment and Indigenous systems is
over 50,000 to 60,000 years old (Powell & Tournier, 2019; Nunn & Reid, 2016; Roberts, 1994).
During these ancient times hunter-gatherers initiated a consciousness of community (Fig. 5.1). Cycles
and centres defined space and time and this period saw the beginning of conscious design and the
building of shelters and villages. The people of the land built their own environments through an
1 Roös, P.B. (2017). Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Coastal Settlements: A Pattern Language Approach to Future
Resilience. PhD Thesis, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Permission granted for the publication of
Indigenous knowledge information and personal communications 2014–2016 by the late Aboriginal Elder - Tandop
David Tournier. Additionally, this research entitled ‘Coastal Climate Change & the Great Ocean Road Region:
Community Workshops & Online Survey’, was subject to an approved human research ethics approval by Deakin
University’s Faculty of Science Engineering & Built Environment Human Research Ethics Advisory Group (HEAG),
coded STEC-1-2013- ROOS dated 21 February 2013; and, this research entitled ‘Regenerative-Adaptive Design for
Coastal Settlements: A Pattern Language Approach to Future Resilience’, was subject to an approved Cultural Heritage
Permit WAC-P0031 issued by the Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation in accordance with s.36(1) of the Victorian
Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 dated 28 August 2019.
Fig. 5.1 Origins of Advanced Knowledge – Aboriginal rock paintings of Gwion Gwion (Tassel Bradshaw) figures
wearing ornate costumes (From Wikipedia Commons CC BY-SA)
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provided through personal communications and recordings in accordance with consents and permissions provided and previously published in my PhD thesis work.
1
5.1 Introduction
According to Aboriginal belief, all life as it is today is part of one vast unchanging network of relationships,
which can be traced back to the Great Ancestors of the Dreamtime (Veronica Brodie, Kaurna Elder, 1994, p. 4).
The accumulated Australian Aboriginal knowledge on the environment and Indigenous systems is
over 50,000 to 60,000 years old (Powell & Tournier, 2019; Nunn & Reid, 2016; Roberts, 1994).
During these ancient times hunter-gatherers initiated a consciousness of community (Fig. 5.1). Cycles
and centres defined space and time and this period saw the beginning of conscious design and the
building of shelters and villages. The people of the land built their own environments through an
1 Roös, P.B. (2017). Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Coastal Settlements: A Pattern Language Approach to Future
Resilience. PhD Thesis, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Permission granted for the publication of
Indigenous knowledge information and personal communications 2014–2016 by the late Aboriginal Elder - Tandop
David Tournier. Additionally, this research entitled ‘Coastal Climate Change & the Great Ocean Road Region:
Community Workshops & Online Survey’, was subject to an approved human research ethics approval by Deakin
University’s Faculty of Science Engineering & Built Environment Human Research Ethics Advisory Group (HEAG),
coded STEC-1-2013- ROOS dated 21 February 2013; and, this research entitled ‘Regenerative-Adaptive Design for
Coastal Settlements: A Pattern Language Approach to Future Resilience’, was subject to an approved Cultural Heritage
Permit WAC-P0031 issued by the Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation in accordance with s.36(1) of the Victorian
Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 dated 28 August 2019.
Fig. 5.1 Origins of Advanced Knowledge – Aboriginal rock paintings of Gwion Gwion (Tassel Bradshaw) figures
wearing ornate costumes (From Wikipedia Commons CC BY-SA)
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