HOME Overview
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HOME Overview *
HOME presents an ambitious and immersive project that embodies the relational strength of Indigenous knowledge systems, cultural practices and design.
Led by Dr Michael Mossman, Emily McDaniel, Jack Gillmer-Lilley, Kaylie Salvatori, Clarence Slockee, Bradley Kerr and Elle Davidson, as part of a Creative Sphere of First Nations architects, designers and practitioners. Home is a powerful provocation that urges audiences to consider their connection to home, homelands and what it means, to care for all places we connect, design and move through as if they were our home.
A home is a site of belonging, memory, and relationships – a place that recalls and connects all who has and have belonged there. A set of behaviours can also be attributed to the notion of home - demonstrating respect to a place, creating communities, facilitating connection, familiarity, and safety. Our home is Country - encompassing landscapes, waterscapes, skyscapes, communities of human and non-human kin, as well as the lore, language, memory and ancestral beliefs. Country is a living being that we care for with responsibility and obligation.
Home positions Indigenous knowledges as a critical design methodology, where the process of connecting with Country, through conversation and two-way knowledge sharing, is of equal importance to the tangible outcome. Home aspires to encourage future generations of architects to embrace a culturally and environmentally sustainable approach to the built environment. The Creative Sphere has collaborated with ten universities across Australia, engaging over one hundred architecture and design students to reflect on what home means to them and to contribute a ‘Living Belonging’ to the exhibition.
Presented in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Architects, HOME invites audiences to become active collaborators, rather than passive onlookers.Home invites audiences to become active collaborators, as opposed to passive onlookers. To move through the pavilion with gentle and curious hands, holding and considering each Living Belonging, participating in conversation, leaving a footprint in sand, or a trace in ochre and clay. Home will become a living archive of all visitors.
The Creative Sphere’s journey to create HOME in the Australia Pavilion at Venice in 2025 is made possible through the generous support of the Australian Institute of Architects as the project commissioner and the guidance of Creative Australia as the project manager.
Purpose
Our purpose is to create an immersive experience that celebrates HOME through the lens of Country and First Nations knowledge systems to connect all of us with each other.
Mission
Our mission is to transform the Venice Pavilion into a HOME—a place for cultural exchange. Where visitors engage with the narratives of Country and their own concepts of Home.
Vision
Our vision is to foster creativity, inclusivity, and dialogue, celebrating First Nations cultures through innovative, collaborative design.