Unit of Study INDG6001 Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Engineering Futures (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

ENGN6001 - Engineering for a Sustainable Future AND PROJ6007 - Stakeholder Engagement

Unit description

This Unit provides students with an understanding of the creative process of learning, co-production and respectful design, based on Indigenous Australian knowledge and approaches to wicked problems. Participating with Australian Indigenous elders, academics and communities, this unit will enhance the student’s ability to think beyond traditional Western engineering design, development and implementation.

Unit content

Principles and protocols

Australian Indigenous ways of knowing

Cultural adaptation and re-design

Respectful design, co-design and futuring

Ethic of care in redirection and redirective practice with community.

Australian community-based cross-cultural case studies.

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2025

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Explain Indigenous approaches to being and ways for understanding in the world, with a focus on Aboriginal peoples in Australian contexts

Examine the major Indigenous Knowledge theories including an examination of the contemporary and future-building potential of Indigenous Knowledge

Demonstrate an understanding that Indigenous Knowledge is a relational philosophy that underpins all human culture and provides potential for adaptation

Co-design and implement models for effectively ensuring respectful change, ethical sharing and care in Indigenous re-directive practice.

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