The AERC is a centre for academic research on Indigenous culture, environments and architecture. The centre has gained widespread recognition from Architecture and Anthropology Departments within Australian Universities, as well as from a range of government agencies and Indigenous organisations.
Do you wish to develop specialist knowledge or skills in Indigenous architecture or settlement design, to address challenging physical and social planning problems in Indigenous communities?
Do you see the need for a reconciliation between Indigenous landscape values and commercial development processes?
Are you interested in cross-cultural design issues?
These are some of the topics being researched in the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre.
AERC research is focused on the following areas:
* Indigenous Architecture - housing, institutional and public buildings
* Indigenous Environments
* Indigenous Culture
Exemplar Research Projects:
Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia
Intertidal Rock-Wall Fish Traps, Wellesley Islands Region
Mining & Indigenous Tourism in Northern Australia
Catalogue
Selected Publications and Reports:
co-authored by Dr Paul Memmott and others: