Designer and Researcher
Tulla Carson
What holds particular significance for you in/about Neilsen Park country and Bottle and Glass Point?
Seymour is particularly drawn to seaweed, a vital component in marine systems that provides food and habitat for diverse aquatic life. Seaweed aquaculture further positions itself as a potential aid in the climate crisis, holding uses as food, biofuels and fertilisers. It is important to recognise that First Nations have a deep and diverse traditional knowledge of Australian natural resources, including seaweed. Through Seymour’s research for the Rockpools project, she considers sustainable and ethical methods of ‘extracting’ seaweed as a material for artistic purposes.
How do you create spaces for contemporary leadership, learning and collaboration with other people and the environment?
My work and leadership evolves tentatively but with focus. When people come together to discuss and learn, an approach that relies on openness, honesty, respect and dedication is required. I try to uphold this in all my movements as artist, collaborator, student and teacher.
Background
Tulla’s practice sits at the intersection of design and research, often through cross-cultural collaborative methodologies. Her practice inhabits the layered relationships between human and more-than-human worlds, attuning to the aliveness of place and fostering social, cultural, and ecological outcomes that honour deep time and relational ways of
knowing.
Guided by relationality, she approaches design as an ongoing conversation, where knowledge, making, and place continuously inform one another. Through embodied and sensorial practice, her work explores the interconnections between people and the living world, allowing new ways of knowing and creating to emerge in shared space.
Through collaborative, place-based practice, Tulla fosters outcomes that are social, cultural, and ecological, projects that honour the aliveness of place while recognising shared responsibility. Professionally, she brings these sensibilities into the built environment, embedding Designing with Country through cross-cultural design strategy and ensuring that spaces and places reflect, amplify, and hold the voices of Culture, Country, and Community.
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We live and work on Bidjigal, Birrabirragal and Gadigal Country. We honour the ongoing cultural and ecological relationships First Nations Australians hold with Country, waters and skies and acknowledge their continued custodianship.
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