Anne-Marie Pisani

Aspect Studios

Anne-Marie is committed to tirelessly practising and advocating for culturally appropriate and meaningful design processes through ensuring genuine collaborative engagement with First Nations communities. She encourages an understanding and respect of an ‘Indigenous way of knowing’ with the value this knowledge brings to design, and has successfully implemented this approach through many of her projects working with Traditional Owners from across Victoria. Her current roles include co-chair of AILA’s ‘Connection to Country’ National Committee and as a panel member for the VDRP and MDRP. As a Senior Associate at ASPECT Studios she leads the development and implementation of their ‘Connection to Country’ National Strategy.

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.