Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand invites papers for a special edition focussing on designing for First Nations communities. The deadline for submissions is 1 May 2024.
Histories of architecture for First Nations peoples have been part of Fabrications scholarship since the journal’s inception. The very first issue in 1989 contained a review by Ann McGrath (UNSW) of Helen Ross’s book Just For Living (1987), an analysis of Aboriginal housing in crisis in Australia. The first articles on First Nations built environments featured in the next issue (2-3, 1991), which included Sarah Treadwell’s “Rangiatea: Architecture Between the Colonial and the Indigenous,” and Mike Austin’s “Notes on the Colonial City”. This issue also featured a book review by Peter Bell of John Hockings’ Traditional Architecture in the Gilbert Islands: A Cultural Perspective, (1989).
Scholarship on this topic continues to have gaps in its knowledge and understanding. This editors’ issue seeks to build on and encourage further pursuit of scholarship on architecture and the built environment for First Nations communities and clients across the Oceania region.
Fabrications welcomes papers from across our region, including First Nations of Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Moanda Pasifika. Submissions are encouraged to address the recent past- from the self-determination, bicultural, and independence eras to the 21st century. These areas offer rich opportunities for discussion around this important change within architecture and the built environment, providing insight into architecture’s role in how societies have seen and valued First Nations people.
Deadline for submissions is 1st May 2024.
Learn more about 34.3 Designing for First Nations Communities and guidelines for submission via the Call for Papers on the SAHANZ website . Any questions about the issue should be directed to the journal’s co-editors: Kelly Greenop and Isabel Rousset.
