Our five-year strategy, Designing Futures, will drive transformative change for our students, staff, and the wider community to create sustainable, equitable, healthy and vibrant futures for Australia and the world.
The University of Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we work, learn and live: the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples (Burnley, Parkville, Southbank, and Werribee campuses), the Yorta Yorta Nation (Dookie and Shepparton campuses), and the Dja Dja Wurrung people (Creswick campus).
The University also acknowledges and is grateful to the Traditional Owners, Elders and Knowledge Holders of all Indigenous nations and clans who have been instrumental in our reconciliation journey.
We recognise the unique place held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the original owners and custodians of the lands and waterways across the Australian continent, with histories of continuous connection dating back more than 60,000 years. We also acknowledge their enduring cultural practices of caring for Country.
We pay respect to Elders past, present and future, and acknowledge the importance of Indigenous knowledge in the academy. As a community of researchers, teachers, professional staff, and students we are privileged to work and learn every day with Indigenous colleagues and partners.
Our vision is to provide comprehensive learning experiences in the built environment disciplines, which equip our graduates and researchers to pursue fulfilling careers and make life-long contributions to our societies. We develop ethical, experimental, and engaged interdisciplinary practices to meet shared and systemic challenges through teaching, engagement, partnership, scholarship, and research.
Designing Futures will set our Faculty up to be a distinctly different place in 2028. We will provide new forms of creation, production and evaluation of our designed and built environment and have even greater influence and impact, as we partner ever closer with government, industry, practice and communities for the greater good.
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