Researching First Nations perspectives on time, I found ‘Time Circles’, which is an Indigenous theory emphasising how the past, present and future are intertwined, with the past living within us, prompted and revisited through art. Time circles centers the individual and focuses on significant events feeling closer in time. This perspective inspired the visual layout of the Calendar.

The Indigenous theory Dadirri, or ‘Deep Listening’, also influenced the layout of the calendar, to a more fluid, community based and interconnected perception towards events that pass, enabling reflection and revisiting, as well as encouraging the user to be aware of the environmental factors surrounding them that to observe when the seasons are changing.

​​With these new ancient and contemporary Indigenous perspectives that I had the privilege of learning, there is an opportunity to reinvent how we use technology to enhance a user’s day to day life with more intention, insight, reflection and connection, using the Design Anthropology framework.

Due to my westernised perspective, to further develop this design I would collaborate with a First Nations person to provide perspective, insight, ownership and control of the indigenous theories being applied to this design, using the Co-Design Framework to be developed in a respectful and controlled way.