AILA Cultivate

AILA Cultivate aims to open dialogues around alternative and expanded modes of landscape architectural practice through conversations and collaborations with other disciplines, including art, architecture, industrial design and publishing. We seek to interrogate and explore how other disciplines can inform and enrich our understanding of landscape and design and the ethical and philosophical issues that underpin how we position ourselves and our practice as agents in the transformation of the environment. AILA Cultivate is chaired by Virginia Overell and Olivia O’Donnell, with Jen Lynch, Ella Gauci-Seddon, Emily Wong and Nicholas Braun.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.