FIRST NATIONS SERIES

BLAKitecture

M Pavilion, Naarm, “Melbourne”

BLAKitecture is a speaker series created by Palawa woman Sarah Lynn Rees that prioritises Blak voices in the built environment. It brings together professionals from related fields to explore how reframing our approach to design can lead to a kinder environment that prioritises the rights of Country. Bradley Kerr has been a contributor to the series since its founding, and its curator since 2023.

WITH

Deadly Blakfullas

PROJECT TEAM

Bradley Kerr

PHOTOGRAPHY

Kayla May Petty

Concrete wall covered in ochre handprints and drawings beneath the lettered question "How do you relate to your community?"
Bradley Kerr in conversation with three panellists at a BLAKitecture talk at MPavilion
Bradley Kerr speaking into a microphone beside three panellists beneath the MPavilion canopy
A visitor in an orange jacket drawing on a charred timber post with a white marker
Long concrete wall covered in ochre marks and drawings, lettered with the question "What reminds you of home?"
Hand-drawn concept sketches: a small plan, a row of charred timber posts with the note "Provocation: How do you carve your culture?", and a section showing planting radiating outwards, labelled "Sensing Country"
Close-up of ochre drawings, handprints and a smiley face on the concrete wall
Audience listening to a conversation beneath a hanging banner reading "Home"
Visitors gathering along the concrete wall, adding their own ochre marks
A person crouched weaving dried grasses beside a green bowl, surrounded by plants
A visitor pressing his ochre-covered hand onto the concrete wall to add his print among the others
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