Tyson Yunkaporta: Sand Talk: Indigenous Thinking

The Good Problem

Today's episode features Tyson Yunkaporta: academic, author, arts critic, researcher, and member of the Apalech Clan with community and cultural ties all over the country. Tyson is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World - an incredible book that shares indigenous ways of thinking that respect the complexity of the world we live in and finds ways to communicate this knowledge through pictures, carvings and stories. Tyson uses Sand Talk - which honours the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to bring clarity to complexity, and asks: what would happen if we applied indigenous thinking to the immense social and environmental problems our world faces today.

Tyson also carves traditional tools and weapons, and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Find out more about Tyson here.

Tyson is reading: The Song of Mavin Manyshaped, by Sheri Tepper

Tyson is listening to: The Douglas Rushkoff Podcast and the Jim Rutt Show

This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners and true sovereigns of the land. Despite the impact of European Invasion we acknowledge their deep understanding and connection to country and rich cultural knowledge. We acknowledge and pay respect to their elders and elders of indigenous communities across the world.