Placemaking Clarence Valley, Bundjalung, Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr Country

Placemaking is a collaborative and Country-centred approach to improving the built and natural environments of neighbourhoods, towns and regions. It involves people collectively reimagining and reinventing public spaces, strengthening the connection between the places they share, and more broadly Country. While placemaking carries colonial distinctions of public and private space, its decolonising potential lies in its core aim of consensus-building and collectivism around spaces and places, a significant world view in Indigenous Knowledges. It plays between blurring such binaries, whilst still navigating the complexities of current day regulatory and land use hurdles.

场所营造（Placemaking）是一种协作式、以领地（Country）为核心的路径，旨在优化街区、城镇及区域的建成环境与自然环境。该实践要求民众共同重新构想并重塑公共空间，强化其所共享的场所与更广泛的领地（Country）之间的联结。尽管场所营造带有殖民主义视角下的公私空间划分印记，但其去殖民化潜力，源于其围绕空间与场所构建共识、践行集体主义的核心目标——这一理念在原住民知识体系中具有重要地位。它在打破此类二元对立的同时，仍需应对当下监管与土地使用领域的复杂阻碍。