Overview
Background
Carroll Go-Sam is Dyirbal gumbilbara bama of Ravenshoe, North Queensland. A graduate with B.Arch (Hons) UQ in 1997 and lectures in the School of Architecture. She has research interests in Indigenous architecture where it intersects with public, civic, social and institutional architecture. Carroll is engaged in research, consultation and design practitice with specific interests in Indigeneity in architecture, civic spaces and Indigenous-led models of housing. She co-led the Gununa Futures research project (2022-2024) and UQ's Campuses on Countries Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement and Design Framework (2020-21).
Carroll has presented at national and international events, symposia and conferences including Asis Pacific Architectural Forum, SAHANZ, IASTE, Brisbane Writers Festival, academic symposia and MPavillion Blakitecture. She was formerly Indigenous Design Place researcher (2017-2019) and worked on the research consultancy about safe drinking water in the Torres Strait Islands. The recipient of an ARC Discovery Indigenous Award (2014-2016) on Defining the Impact of Regionalism on Aboriginal Housing and Settlement.
Availability
- Ms Carroll Go-Sam is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours), The University of Queensland
Works
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2016
Journal Article
Remote Indigenous settlements - more than tiny dots on a map
Go-Sam, Carroll and Memmott, Paul (2016). Remote Indigenous settlements - more than tiny dots on a map. Architecture Australia, 105 (5), 53-54.
2016
Journal Article
Shifting Australian Indigenous Settlements
Memmott, Paul and Go-Sam, Carroll (2016). Shifting Australian Indigenous Settlements. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, 278, 1-23.
2014
Conference Publication
Assimilating problems: from humpies to traditional houses
Go-Sam, Carroll (2014). Assimilating problems: from humpies to traditional houses. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 July 2014. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia: SAHANZ.
2013
Other Outputs
Housing conditionality, Indigenous lifeworlds and policy outcomes: towards a model for culturally responsive housing provision
Habibis, Daphne, Memmott, Paul, Phillips, Rhonda, Go-Sam, Carroll, Keys, Cathy and Moran, Mark (2013). Housing conditionality, Indigenous lifeworlds and policy outcomes: towards a model for culturally responsive housing provision. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
2012
Other Outputs
Resisting Brisbane
Go-Sam, Carroll (2012). Resisting Brisbane. Brisbane, Australia: Finding Country project.
2012
Other Outputs
Building new housing in remote Indigenous communities
Davidson, James, Go Sam, Carroll, Memmott, Paul and Grant, Elizabeth (2012). Building new housing in remote Indigenous communities. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: AHURI (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute).
2012
Book Chapter
NATSISS crowding data: what does it assume and how can we challenge the orthodoxy?
Memmott, Paul, Greenop, Kelly, Clarke, Andrew, Go-Sam, Carroll, Birdsall-Jones, Christina, Harvey-Jones, William, Corunna, Vanessa and Western, Mark (2012). NATSISS crowding data: what does it assume and how can we challenge the orthodoxy?. Survey Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia: Social Science Perspectives. (pp. 241-279) edited by Boyd Hunter and Nicholas Biddle. Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press.
2011
Journal Article
Modelling crowding in Aboriginal Australia
Memmott, Paul, Birdsall-Jones, Christina, Go-Sam, Carroll, Greenop, Kelly and Corunna, Vanessa (2011). Modelling crowding in Aboriginal Australia. AHURI Positioning Paper, i-52.
2011
Journal Article
Remote Indigenous housing procurement: A comparative study
Davidson, James, Memmott, Paul,, Go-Sam, Carroll and Grant, Elizabeth (2011). Remote Indigenous housing procurement: A comparative study. AHURI Final Report (167), i-144.
2011
Conference Publication
Fabricating Blackness: Aboriginal identity constructs in the production and authorisation of architecture
Go-Sam, Carroll (2011). Fabricating Blackness: Aboriginal identity constructs in the production and authorisation of architecture. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 7-10 July 2011. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
2010
Journal Article
Sep Yama: “Ground you cannot see” Finding Country (a primer) (exhibition review)
Go-Sam, Carroll (2010). Sep Yama: “Ground you cannot see” Finding Country (a primer) (exhibition review). Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 11, 154-159.
2010
Journal Article
Remote Indigenous housing procurement and post-occupancy outcomes: A comparative study
Davidson, James, Go-Sam, Carroll and Memmott, Paul (2010). Remote Indigenous housing procurement and post-occupancy outcomes: A comparative study. AHURI Positioning Paper, 129, 1-74.
2008
Journal Article
Working with and against Indigenous design paradigms
Carroll Go-sam (2008). Working with and against Indigenous design paradigms. Architecture Australia, 97 (5), 53-58.
2008
Conference Publication
'Lest We Forget': Working with and against Indigenous Design Paradigms
Go-Sam, Carroll (2008). 'Lest We Forget': Working with and against Indigenous Design Paradigms. RAIA Indigenous Housing Conference, Alice Springs, N.T., Australia, 26-27 Oct 2007. Victoria, Australia: Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
2007
Book Chapter
Spinifex houses of the Western Desert
Memmott, Paul C. and Go-Sam, Carroll (2007). Spinifex houses of the Western Desert. Gunyah, goondie & wurley: The Aboriginal architecture of Australia. (pp. 208-231) edited by Paul C. Memmott. St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Qld Press.
2006
Other Outputs
Good Practice in Indigenous Family Violence Prevention: Designing and Evaluating Successful Programs
Memmott, Paul, Chambers, Catherine, Go-Sam, Carroll and Thomson, Linda (2006). Good Practice in Indigenous Family Violence Prevention: Designing and Evaluating Successful Programs. Issues paper 11 University of NSW, Sydney: Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse.
2005
Other Outputs
Shroud House renovation
Go-sam, Carroll and Hotston, Paul (2005). Shroud House renovation.
2004
Other Outputs
Evaluation report of National Indigenous Family Violence Grants Programme of the Office of the Status of Women
Memmott, P. C., Channells, G., Go-Sam, C., Stacy, R., Spring, F., Taylor, S., Chambers, C. and Thomson, L. (2004). Evaluation report of National Indigenous Family Violence Grants Programme of the Office of the Status of Women. The University of Qld, St Lucia, Qld: Paul Memmott and Associates in association with AERC.
2003
Book Chapter
Synthesizing indigenous housing paradigms: an introduction to Take 2
Memmott, Paul and Go-Sam, Carroll (2003). Synthesizing indigenous housing paradigms: an introduction to Take 2. TAKE 2: Housing design in indigenous Australia. (pp. 12-17) edited by P. Memmott and C. Chambers. Canberra, ACT Australia: The Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
2003
Other Outputs
Interim emerging good practice report: Round 03 of the Mentoring and Evaluation Scheme for the National Indigenous Family Violence Grants Programme (NIFVGP)
Memmott, P. and Go-Sam, C. (2003). Interim emerging good practice report: Round 03 of the Mentoring and Evaluation Scheme for the National Indigenous Family Violence Grants Programme (NIFVGP). St Lucia, Qld, Australia: Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, University of Queensland.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
A Talanoa of Two Universities: Spatial Belonging of Moana Oceania students at the University of Queensland and the University of Auckland. A Trans-Tasman Case Study.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Kelly Greenop
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Doctor Philosophy
Historical-ethnographic approaches to Participatory Design in Australian indigenous architecture
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Babidge, Associate Professor Kelly Greenop
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Doctor Philosophy
A Talanoa of Two Universities: Spatial Belonging of Moana Oceania students at the University of Queensland and the University of Auckland. A Trans-Tasman Case Study.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Kelly Greenop
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