National Reconciliation Week: In conversation with Shannon Foster
Date: May 30, 2022
Category: Insights
Shannon’s artwork ‘Naba Gumal’, Family and Friends (2018)
In celebration of our Indigenous Consultants for National Reconciliation Week, Bianca Pineda from our Sydney Studio spoke to Shannon Foster, D'harawal Eora Knowledge Keeper, and Founding Partner at Bangawarra to hear more about Bangawarra’s commitment to Country centred design.
How do you juggle the different hats you wear, from a person with Aboriginal heritage, to a consultant, an academic and an Indigenous Knowledge holder?
Do the right opportunities to have these conversations come up enough?
In the time since you’ve worked in the design world what are the biggest differences you’ve noticed?
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Outside our communities people just embrace these new ideas and concepts people can see that Country can unite us all now which is so exciting. All my life I’ve wanted to see us represented us in the built environment and now its finally coming to fruition.
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What are some of the challenges of working in the design world as a consultant?
Shannon’s artwork ‘Garugarung Gurad’, Beautiful Country (2017)
What about career highlights?
If you could leave the world of designers with one message, what would it be?
