Decolonising Placemaking: Re-Indigenising Urban Environments and Sustaining Civic Joy

Colonial Worldview: Viewing land as a commodity, creating private land parcels for monetary gains, indifferent to its ecological and socio-cultural significance Country: Holistically encompassing depths of land, sky, water and all living things in the universe Songlines (in the context of Australia): Complex pattern on Country of ancestral dreaming stories about the creation of Country, linking landscapes to cultural practices; a way for the exchange of traditional knowledge in pre-colonial times Aboriginal/ Indigenous Worldview: Viewing land as Country; an integral part of cultural protocols that requires caring for Country Decolonisation: Undoing of colonial impacts Author's collage representing the contradictory relationship between colonial urban form, Indigenous understanding of Country, and the collective action towards more just and culturally responsive urban environments.