Dr Danièle Hromek

Danièle Hromek is a Budawang woman of the Yuin nation with French and Czech heritage.

Danièle’s research in the spatial disciplines considers Aboriginal relationships to space and Country. She investigates how to Indigenise the built environment by creating spaces to embed Indigenous rights and culture. Her research rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice, in doing so considering the sustainability of culture from a spatial perspective.
Danièle’s practice works in the intersection of architecture, interiors, urban design, performance design and fine arts. Her work often considers the urban Aboriginal condition, the Indigenous experience of Country and contemporary Indigenous identities. Danièle’s objective is to design flourishing futures for First Peoples and for culture.

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.