Timmah Ball is a writer and urban planner who has written for Meanjin, Overland, The Westerly and The Griffith Review. She is currently developing the second edition of the zine Wild Tongue for Next Wave Festival.
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Can design decolonise cities?
Ahead of NAIDOC week, Indigenous writer and urban planner Timmah Ball reflects on the rise of First Nations inflected design elements in our cities. She questions whether or not they are actually having the desired decolonial effect and, after a trip to New Zealand, compares practices in Naarm (Melbourne) and Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).
