Tyson Yunkaporta

Dr Tyson Yunkaporta

Dr Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne.

Author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, a remarkable book about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat. A publication about how lines, symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world, how we learn and how we remember.

Tyson looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?

Tyson will be part of the panel for all three webinars in the series.