as architecture students, I believe we have a responsibility
not just to naively wish everything to be 'aesthetically pleasing' +
and 'beautiful' somethings may be more important than that...
here is an interesting quote I have found...
'One must think of the issue in Redfern Sydney which is purely about yuppie housing and greed. Refurn is tribal land aboriginal land not just another suburb like all the rest in Sydney town.'
from ''http://www.pnp.org.au/folios/2006ref/2006Page0.aspx
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A great documentary supports the idea that Redfern is a sacred place for the Aboriginies. It is a place unlike many other places in Sydney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqAZY5__Vg
In speaking to a few Aboriginals in the area they told me there was originally no connection to Redfern as a spiritual place of the ancestors.
However, it has become an important meeting hub. As one fellow said- approx:"cousins will up and leave from a community anywhere in Australia and make tracks to Redfern. A relative will call up asking if they've seen this person around and if so can somebody find space in their home for them. "
Clearly there is a sense of place, community and definite friendship for Aboriginal people to just set out here as a destination without even knowing where they will sleep yet...
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