Swayn Open Research
The Alastair Swayn Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency of the research it funds. We believe that research supported by the Foundation should be made discoverable and readily accessible online. The Swayn Open Research repository provides a place for researchers to promptly have their findings published on an open access basis, to benefit the architecture and design community.
GROUNDING: Practice, Process & Place
Adaptable and site-responsive, the framework aims to establish respectful modes of working on Country and with landscapes that inform our projects, while also expanding the boundaries of our respective practices and disciplines.
Mirndiyan Gununa: an embedded case study of workplace dynamics of a remote Indigenous Art Centre
The case study report collates preliminary and baseline data investigating the work and workplace dynamics of a Far North Queensland IAC, Mirndiyan Gununa Aboriginal Corporation (aka MIArt), Mornington Island, as an embedded case study. The report presents the key outputs of the study and provides an overview of the IAC and its context to provide an historical and cultural overview.
Solid Yarns: Collaborating with Respect
Solid Yarns is a podcast about how First Nations creatives and industry partners can work together. Each episode features a First Nations creative in conversation with their client, unpacking a project brief and sharing stories behind the work.
Beyond Heritage: First Nations’ involvement in climate mitigation and design
Beyond Heritage is an emergent research project and online resource celebrating, recognising and supporting the development of Australian First Nations design, as frontline responses to the climate and biodiversity emergency.
Papulu-Ku Nyinjjiki (Seeing Houses): Health and Housing in the Northern Territory
Papulu-ku Nyinjjiki (seeing houses) exhibition set out to document the harsh realities of remote indigenous housing in the Northern Territory. It was about telling the story of Tennant Creek through housing injustice and art—revealing these lived realities to the broader public. The exhibition was also about meaningful engagement and collaboration; celebrating the homes at Emu Springs and the establishment of Wilya Janta housing collaboration.
Pathways Towards Inclusion: First Nations’ Principles (Sharing, Making and Kinship in Australian Workplace)
This research investigates Indigenous approaches to working; collaboration in working environments, and the structure of working organisations in themselves to define a set of preliminary principles to encourage the next evolution of Australian workplace design and practice.
Built Forms on Ngunnawal Country: Investigation and Adaptation
Traditionally, throughout white Australian history, the built environment has been used as a tool for colonisation. From the first colonials on Australian soil to modern day Australia, the built environment has been expanding its territory, resulting in the continued displacement, and forced assimilation of First Nations people in Western cultures.
Stepping Stone: Indigenising the Foyer Model of Transitional Housing
The research aims to amplify the voices of young Aboriginal people with lived experience of crisis accommodation and / or Foyer accommodation through a co-design process, as they describe the changes that would help them on their journey through young adulthood.
Architecture Bulletin: The official journal of the New South Wales Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.
Documenting architecture and the profession since 1944. The NSW Editorial Committee contribute towards planning, sourcing material and editing.