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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures - Cross Curriculum priority links to TAS
There are many wonderful examples of both traditional and contemporary technology and design featuring aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers that make for excellent reference and discussion with your students...
Agricultural, Food Technology and Material Technologies
Recycled Mats made from recycled materials and by aboriginal artists featuring cultural stories.
Australian Botanic Gardens Teacher and student resources and handout explaining how Aboriginal people used bush plants (Also available as a facilitated program).
Australian Botanic Gardens Aboriginal Plant use and Technology handout also has useful information around Marine and Aquaculture
Australian Geographic: Aboriginal inventions: 10 enduring innovations
Aboriginal Elder Aunty Dale Tilbrook in a video from the Phenomenom website explains the practice of creating Kangaroo Poo Glue to make tools.
Aboriginal Agricultural Practice and Land Management
Bruce Pascoe's book Dark Emu brings together the historical documents of early white settlers which give eye witness accounts of established aboriginal land management and agricultural practices in Australia. See also the Young readers edition Young Dark emu
Bruce Gammage's book The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia explains the way aboriginal people managed the land in organised systems. This book is based on early accounts of Aboriginal life by early settlers and explorers including insightful commentary on land management and agricultural practices.
Rethinking Indigenous Australia's agricultural past an ABC Radio National Podcast featuring Bruce Pascoe and Bill Gammage
ABC article on an alternative to popular Australian grain production with Kangaroo Grass
SBS article investigates aboriginal use of grain cultivation and food production - were indigenous Australians the worlds first bakers?
Materials Technologies Connections - Toys and Games
From spears, shields and throwing sticks to hockey, marbles and fireworks, this beautifully illustrated and cleverly structured book builds for the reader a unique picture of the lives of Aboriginal children in the past and present, and adds significantly to records of Aboriginal society then and now.
A fascinating account of a little-known aspect of Australian social history which reaches into the treasury of Aboriginal toys found on the shelves of museums all over Australia. Available here
Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander design
Balarinji is a Sydney-based, Aboriginal-owned agency founded on authentic engagement with Aboriginal people, culture, art, stories and identity. Their ethos is to deepen understanding of Aboriginal Australia for major projects nationally. The company’s work spans public art and curatorial, urban regeneration and infrastructure, branding campaigns and digital.
Blak Design Matters is an exhibition which was held in Melbourne in September 2018 to showcase the diversity of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers. From fashion, interiors, and product design to landscape, architecture and town planning, the exhibited projects will interrogate how Indigenous design is defined, received, and made visible in Australia’s contemporary design landscape, asking the question, what is meaningful Indigenous design and why does it matter? This video references some of the artists and what they have designed.
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