BAYULU

Resilient And Productive Remote Communities

UWA Detailed Design Studio 2021

The Studio Kimberley 1 [Bayulu Pilot Project] aims to identify opportunities, needs and priorities aligned with communities’ cultural and environmental values to build capacity, create empowerment, improve wellbeing and support employment for young Aboriginal people while providing enhanced social infrastructure. The “pilot project” will be designed, ensuring that it allows replication and future upscaling within all concerning communities, where co designing urban interventions that create spaces where people feel safe and have a sense of belonging through a celebration of local culture and language.

The studio will focus on the remote aboriginal community of Bayulu, located 10km of Fitzroy crossing, in the Kimberley region. Design proposals are thought to develop a masterplan for the entire community and the design development of particular buildings within the community, which are meant to have a particular impact on the empowerment of the youth.

BAYULU Aboriginal community, being one of the oldest and most established in the region (originally it was part of the Gogo Station). It is located across the Fitzroy River, 10 km south of Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley Region. On the western outskirts of the Gooniyandi country and the only access is via the Great Northern Highway.