First Knowledges: Design Phar Lap Australian Made Table Runner featuring

Australian Made Table Runner featuring artwork 'Ningarti Mirrijini Kapiwarta' by Mary Elizabeth Moreen courtesy Jilamara Arts & Craft Association

Imagine herds of two-tonne Diprotodon roaming the plains

including the star-faced mole and worms as big as snakes

Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity reveals novel and creative practices such as: body shaping

you will quickly appreciate how lucky we are to be the home of the world’s oldest continuing civilisation – which is both diverse and thriving in Australia today

First Knowledges: Design Phar Lap Australian Made Table Runner featuringAboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied