Site 3: Mandie’s Bedroom
N’arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM + Greenshoot
Murrup, Marram Baa,ny
Woven by Chris Cochius + Saffron Gordon
Murrup, Marram Baa’ny introduces light, movement and shadow in evoking the history and memory of place in Mandie’s bedroom. It echoes a First Nations identity with the spirit of the water bodies, disrupted and manipulated through colonisation. A singular aerosol burn locates Walsh Street amongst the precolonial water systems, referencing the colour of the sofa in the living room.
N’arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM is a Boon Wurrung Senior Elder and Chairperson/Founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation, where she has supported Indigenous youth, cultural research and the restoration of Boon Wurrung language over the past 40 years.
Greenshoot is a research and design practice, specialising in culturally responsive co-design. Alongside First Peoples Elders, Greenshoot has developed a Country-centred approach to support delivery across a broad range of project typologies in the built and natural environment.
L - R: Stas Mantzis, N’arwee’t Professor Carolyn Briggs AM, Kirsten Spiridis. Photography by ATW.
L - R Saffron Gordon, Stas Mantzis, Kirsten Spiridis, Jeremy Gaden, Chris Cochius. Photography by Astrid Mulder.