Representation, remembrance and the memorial

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: The RR.Memorial Forum held in June 2018 explored the future of memorials in Australia to the Frontier Wars. The forum included a series of Indigenous-led design charrettes that revealed the possibilities and challenges involved in creating places of healing. Emily Wong, the editor of Landscape Australia journal, commissioned Jock Gilbert, Brook Andrew, Christine Phillips, Carroll Go-Sam, Jessica Neath and Corina Marino to write this essay titled 'Representation, remembrance and the memorial', in which they gathered reflections from those charettes and in doing so proposed the development of frameworks and protocols for the design professions around memorialisation of the Frontier Wars. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The essay makes contributions on several levels; it outlines parameters for the development of protocols and frameworks and as such can be seen as advancing the cause and practice of reconciliation with a focus on the urgent need for the transformation of disciplinary design thinking in relation to Indigenous Knowledge. It also provides a demonstrable model for the way that a team of authors can collaborate across cultures, disciplines and communities – providing a mechanism of outreach through which the work of the actual charrettes can be extended to a wider design audience. In doing so, the relationships between the authorial group are significantly strengthened. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Landscape Australia, which appears quarterly, is the pre-eminent journal addressing issues of national significance through landscape and is endorsed by the AIA, PIA and AILDM. Articles are archived in major databases including Informit Australian Public Affairs Full Text and the journal is listed in Ulrichs Global Serials Directory. The essay was also published on the Landscape Australia website.