Our approach

The ISKC is a not-for-profit organization governed by Australian Aboriginal directors, supporting systems-based Indigenous thinking and innovation locally, nationally and globally.  We are a charity with the purpose of applying the expertise, relational insight and collective knowledge protocols of Indigenous thinkers to resolving systemic crises and navigating complexity.

We support projects addressing catastrophic risk, wherever First Peoples are investigating and acting on the structural misalignment of ecological and economic systems. Indigenous knowledge is embedded in living systems, so it flows in regenerative exchange through many lands, circulating like currents of air, water and migratory species, so we share our research and practice across the collective. We then refine and translate emergent knowledge as scholarship and media content to scale from local to global contexts, for all peoples.

Neither knowledge nor land can be isolated on reserves as wild remnants separated from society – the error of sustainability policy – so our work is a moving feast of ritual exchange, seeking ways to re-embed human systems in biocultural symbiosis with lands, waters and skies everywhere. Without this, all life will end.