About this Event
This conversation finds architecture within resistance — shaped by colonial occupation and centuries of Aboriginal defiance for Land, water and sovereignty. It asks how Aboriginal perspective, culture, lived experience and practice inform the ways we build, and what is owed to the revolutionaries and agitators whose sacrifice must not be paved over, gentrified or forgotten. Architecture is considered here as a vessel for self-determination, a discipline reckoning with its own colonial paradigm and unceded ground. And still we ask: who holds voice and agency for Land, water, sky and our non-human kin — and how might architecture learn, finally, to listen?
Images: from the Australian Pavilion 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025 HOME
Speakers
Jack Gillmer-Lilley, is a proud Worimi and Biripi guri of the Gathang language group, and architect who explores Country as the driver of narrative to his architectural approach. He champions First Nations leadership and co-design, drawing on the intersection of cultural knowledge systems and built environment practices to shape multi-sensory, place-based outcomes.
During his Galang Residency (Powerhouse Museum & Cité internationale des arts, Paris), Jack investigated reframing museology through a cultural architectural lens, exploring themes not limited to rematriation, agency, access, enduring reciprocity and truth-telling, and exhibition display. His research into arts, exhibition and museums continues to inform his practice including ongoing participation in the Pitt Rivers Museum Cultural Advisory Group, Oxford UK. In 2025, he led Australia’s pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale as co-creative director for Home.
Liam Coe, is a proud Wiradjuri Wahlan Gibir from Erambie on the Bila Galare. He's a member of the Aboriginal communities of Redfern and Waterloo in inner urban Sydney where he resides. Liam maintains strong connections to his home on Erambie and the people of Redfern, their families and our shared history.
Liam holds the position of Senior Design advisor at the Government Architect New South Wales. His training is in architecture, holding a Master of Architecture and Bachelor
of Architecture and Environments from the University of Sydney. Through architecture he champions methods of reciprocity and respect of culture, community and Country to seek meaningful collaboration, representation and empower self determination of Aboriginal peoples.
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238 E 6th St, 238 East 6th Street, New York, United States
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