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Andrew Broffman in ArchAU

By facilitating the displacement of cultural heritage, or by honouring the wishes of Traditional Custodians to retain and interpret the park’s many-layered history?
By building yet another bloated stadium, or by Caring for Country and refusing to support needless construction while in the grip of catastrophic climate change?
By refusing the patient and generous invitation to walk together, or by practising the careful qualities that the gift of Designing with Country offers?
How will the architecture industry respond?
By facilitating the displacement of cultural heritage, or by honouring the wishes of Traditional Custodians to retain and interpret the park’s many-layered history?

By building yet another bloated stadium, or by Caring for Country and refusing to support needless construction while in the grip of catastrophic climate change?

By refusing the patient and generous invitation to walk together, or by practising the careful qualities that the gift of Designing with Country offers?

A pointed article and a reckoning for the profession.

TFA Principal Andrew Broffman responds to ArchitectureAU’s dossier on the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games, and invites the question: how deep does our discipline’s commitment to First Nations’ agency and reconciliation truly run?

We’re never short of an opinion at The Fulcrum Agency. Go here to read Andrew’s important piece now.

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