Jackson Bankes

Interior Architecture

Music-loving Tradie gone Designer. Before my Bachelor of Design, I completed my first bachelor’s degree in creative technologies (Audio Engineering). Throughout this degree, I learnt the importance of a space’s acoustic qualities, from the aural ambience of a large environment to the manipulation and treatment to an acoustically sound working environment or recording studio. During this degree, I worked as a Joiner, where I built high-end custom kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, and furniture. The wealth of knowledge gained here provided me with an understanding of the construction industry and worksites, the importance of quality products and materials, and met with clients, Architects, other trades and product representatives to discuss the task at hand. The cherry on top is my Bachelor of Design – Interior Architecture, where I have learned to communicate my creative ideas. The past ten years have allowed me to lay a unique yet solid foundation to launch my career in the design industry. The opportunity to amalgamate and apply my experience towards becoming an asset to the Design industry is an exciting challenge, one I am greatly looking forward to.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.