2012 AILA Australian Medal for Landscape Architecture
Values Mapping.
Stanley & Cissy Djiagween.
Badly eroded access track at Sabu Rock.
Yawuru Man Carving Yilyi.
Aerial view of Thangoo coastline.
Nagulagun-buru (Salt Water Country) Painting by Martha Lee.
Early KLVC Bush meeting.
Taking the struggle to the Crown.
Patrick Dodson, Francis Djiagween and Gajai Frank Sebastian at the signing ceremony.
Heritage Clearance Survey on Thangoo PL with Buru Energy.
Field survey reviewing Yawuru habitats and seasons.
Field survey.
Yawuru Habitats.
Saltwater habitat.
Jimmy Edgar identifying ochre.
Yawuru Six Seasons Wheel.
Seasons Mapping.
Saltwater seasons, compiled by members of the Yawuru Culture and Heritage Sub-committee. Artwork by Martha Lee & UDLA.
Patrick Dodson with Yawuru Ranger group.
Yawuru Rangers head out to sea grass, Roebuck Bay.
Martha Lee and Dalisa Pigram working in the Mabu Yawuru Ngan-ga Language Centre and Mabu Yawuru Ngan-ga displaying their work.
Jimmy Edgar collecting janga (oysters).
Roy Charlie holding jarlangardi he caught at the beach at Yardugarra.
Yawuru Boys dressed for Ceremony.
Walyjala-jala buru jayida jarringun buru Nyamba Yawuru ngan-ga mirli mirli, (Planning for the future: Yawuru Cultural Management Plan): The cultural management plan for Yawuru coastal country and the Yawuru Conservation Estate.
Client: Yawuru Registered Native Title Holders Body Corporate
Jury comment
UDLA was commissioned by the Yawuru people of the Broome area to assist in the creation of a long-term management plan of Yawuru country, which has resulted in the creation of a unique document. The Yawuru Cultural Management Plan (YCMP) has been produced under the guidance and leadership of the Yawuru Culture and Heritage Sub-committee (chaired by Jimmy Edgar) and endorsed by the Yawuru Registered Native Title Holders Body Corporate (RNTHBC) with the key intent to produce a document to guide the joint management of the Yawuru Conservation Estates and achieve best practice outcomes.
The Plan explains how the Yawuru RNTHBC will be involved in managing country through their Ranger Program, working in partnership with the Department of Environment and Conservation, Shire of Broome, government agencies and researchers to make sure that Country is cared for in the best possible way and ensures that the management of country brings the greatest possible benefits to Yawuru people.
This project has been awarded the AILA National Medal for Landscape Architecture as it achieves a number of outcomes. The published Yawuru Cultural Management Plan expresses past, present and future; it offers discussions about Culture, Country, Community and liyan (wellbeing) that transcend other reports of this kind, that record and map values. This Cultural Management Plan will and should respectfully drive conservation plans, land management decisions and design activities in marine and terrestrial areas Australia-wide, such is its generous and visionary approach.
It is more than a conversation, more than a listening and recording, more than walking and seeing the land; it is all of these things, but most importantly, it is none of these, but the land and its people.
