Screen Memories: Volumetric Ideation and the Problem of Representation
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 2014-11-10

Placemaking initiatives in Australia routinely involve Indigenous consultation. However, the possible incommensurability of Indigenous and non-Indigenous place-making philosophies and practices is, in these negotiations, suspended. 
Paul Carter is a writer and artist. His most recent book, Meeting Place: the Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence, stages a philosophical dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous models of sociability. Paul is Professor of Design (Urbanism), RMIT University, Melbourne.