Service Learning
(co)create x GLaWAC
We created this live research unit to support our continued partnership with Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC), the Registered Aboriginal Party caring for a significant area of East Gippsland. Together with GLaWAC and Master of Architecture students, we co-created a ‘masterplan’ to help facilitate place-based growth of the organization, at their adaptively reused home at Forestec TAFE in Kalimna.
Year
2023 – current
Country / Location
Kulin Nations / Caulfield VIC
Gunaikurnai / East Gippsland VIC
Institution
Monash University
Photography
Spencer Mu
Contributing Masters of Architecture Students
Sara Amin, Olivia Basile, Penelope Bruce, Rabani Budhiraja, Anna Chan, Chin Chang, Emily Foenander, Spencer Mu, Jordan Sale, Athiqah Ummi Salma, Aleez Vasaya
Our assistance of GLaWAC through this design research was supported by fieldwork in East Gippsland. It included student-led facilitation of co-creation workshops informed by cultural and environmental knowledge sharing by our local partners. Collaborating students transitioned acutely from theory to practice of participatory approaches in order to support the creation of a self-determined strategy for growing GLaWAC’s cultural expression, across their campus.
The final masterplan document is currently being leveraged to seek sources of funding to catalyse diverse initiatives housed within an overall Country-centred vision for GLaWAC HQ.
