Cultural Healing & Awareness Program
FISH is working with the Department of Justice in Western Australia to assist incarcerated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with Cultural Healing and Awareness. This enables them to bring positive change to their self. Through lighting their own fire within and continuing the journey of understanding their own story, they recognise their own self-worth […]
Community Co-Design Construction
Co-design is always central to FISH’s work with communities. For lasting change, projects need to be by Aboriginal people, for Aboriginal people. Buildings and programs need to belong to the place and to the people. You can read FISH’s publication on co-design and co-build Indigenous housing, in Sustainability Journal, here, and watch our TEDx UWA talk, here. Life […]
Junjuwa Community
FISH was invited by the Junjuwa Community near Fitzroy Crossing to provide input into the design of sustainable housing and healthy living programmes. FISH also developed a draft master plan for their Old Bakery Precinct in consultation with the community. JUNJUWA CONCEPT HOUSE Advanced collaborative concept design by FISH and Junjuwa for local sustainable housing. […]
Bawoorrooga Education
Every component of the FISH-Bawoorrooga Community Development Initiative is an education and training opportunity. In 2018, FISH and Bawoorrooga community planted a ‘food forest’ orchard of 400 plants, of 30 species. In 2022, in collaboration with Phoenix Academy, FISH delivered a further horticulture program to expand Bawoorrooga’s orchard and nursery. As well as gaining valuable hands […]
