Connecting with Country – Kerrie Shepherd shares simple steps to make a start

One of the biggest shifts in the built environment in the last decade has been the embrace of the Aboriginal concept of Country. Australia’s First Nations’ peoples have an enduring responsibility for caring for land, water and sky, spanning millennia, with contemporary Australia beginning to embrace this valuable ‘living database’ of knowledge and practice. Designers and developers now understand that connecting with Country enriches our places and spaces and supports a m