Marni Reti
Marni Reti is a proud Palawa and Ngātiwai woman, born and raised on Gadigal Country. She is a registered architect at Kaunitz Yeung Architecture, alumni and previous Master’s Design Studio Lead at UTS and currently holds a position of Senior Lecturer at USYD. Marni has dedicated her professional and academic career to engaging Indigenous knowledge into architectural practice and education.
guy Valentine
Guy Valentine lives in London, works internationally and calls Cape Town home. He is a master craftsman who works with natural materials (clay, lime and tadelakt). For him they are not simply construction or decorative materials but a means of creating inspiring and tactile spaces that invite connection and ease. Guy loves creating considered and ambient architectural finishes. For 20 years, in projects around the world, Guy’s artistry has produced surfaces that lend many unique interiors their intangible essence and heart.
Jordan Eaton
Jordan is a Bunjalung and Githabul man with multi-disciplinary development and design experience. Trained as a landscape architect Jordan guides Lendlease's commitment to be an industry leader in placemaking led by First Nations voices.
His work focuses on cultural heritage, self-determination, design, housing, art, sustainability and the relationship between Country, Cities and people.
Matte McConnell
Matte McConnell is a proud Wiradjuri man and lecturer in the School of Architecture at UTS. He is the design director of garigarra, a design practice grounded in Wiradjuri epistemologies and practices of truth and authenticity (garigarra) and respect (yindyamarra). Matte is currently coordinating first-year design, embedding Country-centred thinking at the foundation of architectural education.
Through teaching, research and practice, Matte explores Indigenous design methodologies, positioning and storytelling - challenging students and designers to recognise architecture’s responsibility to care for and be guided by Country.
Jane Da Mosto
Jane da Mosto is an environmental scientist (MA, Oxford University, M. Phil. Imperial College London) with international experience as a consultant on sustainable development, climate change and wetland ecology.
Since 2012 she has been fully engaged in trying to change the future of Venice and for Venetians as co-founder of We are here Venice (weareherevenice.org), an NGO that specialises in using the best available academic research and methodologies to characterise the challenges for Venice while also drawing upon grassroots networks to source accurate information on the city and lagoon and disseminate distilled findings and results to improve public understanding and international awareness of Venice’s fragile but not hopeless condition.
Franca Tamisari
Franca Tamisari, coordinator of the MA in 'Cultural Anthropology Ethnology and Anthropological Linguistics' (ACEL) in the Dept. of Humanities, was granted an MA and PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1994 and has carried out research in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia from 1990.
More recently she also carried out research in North Queensland, and in the Lagoon of Venice. Her main research areas include: Australian Indigenous cosmologies and onto-epistemologies; the anthropology of art and performance (with a focus on the political and aesthetic dimension of ritual and on dance and performative practices in local and intercultural contexts); bicultural education (development and integration of Indigenous pedagogy in compulsory schooling); the repatriation of Indigenous cultural heritage; anthropology of tourism; history of colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial relations in Australia; methodologies of the anthropological encounter (politics of representation, personal acquaintance). Recently, she started an ethnographic research on the ecological knowledge of fishermen and hunters in the Venice Lagoon.
Dr Endriana Audisho
Dr Endriana Audisho is a Lecturer and Public Programs Director at UTS Architecture. Her research and teaching are grounded in postcolonial and decolonial frameworks, through which she explores alternative pedagogies and practices aimed at realigning architecture with its socio-political dimensions.
Endriana’s teaching spans architectural design, history and theory, and professional practice. As Public Programs Director, she curates events under the theme of Solidarity, pursuing a transformative and collaborative architectural agenda to help shape a more just future.
Daniel Boyd
Daniel Boyd is one of Australia's most acclaimed young artists. Boyd’s practice is internationally recognised for its manifold engagement with the colonial history of the Australia-Pacific region. Drawing upon intermingled discourses of science, religion and aesthetics, his work reveals the complexity of perspectives through which political, cultural and personal memory is composed.
Boyd has both Aboriginal and Pacific Islander heritage and his work traces this cultural and visual ancestry in relation to the broader history of Western art.
Bradley Kerr
Bradley, a Quandamooka man and architect on Wurundjeri Country, is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney and Monash University.
He co-chairs the Australian Institute of Architects’ First Nations Advisory Committee, contributes to boards and committees, curates the BLAKitecture series, and was awarded the 2024 Victorian Emerging Architect Prize and 2023 Dulux Study Prize.
Clarence Slockee
Clarence Slockee, Founding Director of Jiwah, is a Bundjalung Aboriginal man, environmentalist, and educator. He works with design partners and specialists to embed traditional knowledge and cultural learning into projects.
Clarence shares culture globally through performance and art, connecting people with plants and restoring natural systems using First Nations design principles.
Elle Davidson
Elle Davidson is a Balanggarra woman from the East Kimberley, born on Gadigal Country and calls Bundjalung Country home. She is a Director of Zion Engagement and Planning and an Aboriginal Planning Lecturer at the University of Sydney.
Elle is passionate about walking alongside people to build their capacity and confidence in working with Country, community and culture.
Kaylie Salvatori
Kaylie Salvatori, Founding Director of COLA Studio, is a Salt-Water Yuin woman, landscape architect, and cultural design strategist. Specialising in Indigenous design collaboration and Country-positive approaches, she priorities Country in her work, advocating for First Peoples’ custodianship.
Kaylie connects cultural-ecological systems in public and commercial spaces, excelling in concept ideation, storytelling, and material selection while promoting biodiversity through her unique design practices.
Dr Michael Mossman
Dr Michael Mossman is a Kuku Yalanji man who lectures and researches at the University of Sydney School of Architecture Design and Planning.
He is a registered architect who champions Country and First Nations cultures as agents for structural change in the broader architectural profession at educational, practice and policy levels. As co-lead creative director, Michael will lead logistics + dialogue around public engagement + culture + architecture
Prof. Emily Mcdaniel
Emily McDaniel is a Wiradjuri curator, creative practitioner and a Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture, UTS. She consults on curatorship, cultural narratives, learning and interpretation for cultural institutions, public domain, and the built environment.
Her practice applies Country-centred curatorial methodologies in collaboration with First Nations communities, cultural and creative practitioners, architects, and designers to story and truth-tell. She is recognised for her influential curatorial methodologies which place emphasis on expansive cultural practice, encompassing visual art, design, storytelling, language, performance, Indigenous knowledges, cultural governance, and nation building methodologies.
Jack Gillmer-Lilley
Jack Gillmer-Lilley (Worimi & Biripi Guri) is an associate and First Nations lead at SJB, visiting and working on Gadigal Country. He advocates First Nations leadership and co-design, exploring the intersection of cultural knowledge systems and the built environment with an interest in multi-sensory experiences and unlocking ancient-living infrastructure through language.
As Creative Director for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025, and through his research as recipient of the Galang Residency collaboration between Powerhouse Museum x Cite Internationale des arts (Paris) in 2024, Jack looks forward to extending conversations about reframing museology and Indigenising institutional architecture and processes.