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What is cultural safety and how do we design for it?

The built environment can play a pivotal role in improving cultural safety for everyone. Exploring the concept from a First Nations perspective, Danièle Hromek, a Budawang woman of the Yuin nation, explains why it is imperative that designers understand cultural safety and consider it from project conception onwards.
Danièle Hromek
Architecture Australia
2023

The built environment can play a pivotal role in improving cultural safety for everyone. Exploring the concept from a First Nations perspective, Danièle Hromek, a Budawang woman of the Yuin nation, explains why it is imperative that designers understand cultural safety and consider it from project conception onwards.

Growing up together, Danièle Hromek and her sister Siân learned about cultural safety, ethics and protocols on Country.

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