A delightful yarn with Tyson Yunkporta, Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk. Tyson is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland, Australia.

On this episode we discuss:

• How their systems lab aggregates data and knowledge through indigenous sense-making protocols
• “Avatar Depression” syndrome and how the West may begin to remember its own aboriginal knowledge
• How giving names to nature can either kill, or create kinship
• The role of ceremony in maintaining energy flows.. And why ceremony isn’t always such an enjoyable matter!
• Why baramundi is not the correct name for a saltwater fish, and why biomimicry doesn’t work quite as well as we may think
• How land seen as capital becomes a dying land
• And finally, what happens when the dress rehearsal for an epic ceremony actually becomes the real thing!

Episode Website Link: lifeworld.earth/episodes/indigenousviewtysonyunkaporta

Show Links:

• Deakin University Indigenous Knowledges Systems Lab
• Sand Talk book
• Indigenous AI Lab
• The Other Others podcast

Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.

Music Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd

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