Not Just Sorry, But Thanks

Gothenburg

2020

‘Not just sorry, but thanks’ finds its genesis in Bruce Pascoe’s work Dark Emu where he writes: “It seems improbable that a country can continue to hide from the actuality of its history in order to validate the fact that having said sorry, we refuse to say thanks” (2014:228) and is an acknowledgment of the failure of architectural practice and education to face its continuation of colonialism in Australia. This work focuses on identifying how architecture and urban planning processes challenge or embed colonial forces within Sydney. Australia’s settler colonialism is identified as ongoing - through its physical and structural manifestations.

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