Bringing Back Buath Birrarang-ga, meaning “bringing back open grassy Country” in Boon Wurrung language, envisions the RMIT campus as a living landscape that restores ecological balance and honours Boon Wurrung Country. The project reimagines the campus as a responsive system where people, non-human species, and Country coexist.

By listening to the stories embedded in the land and drawing from First Peoples’ knowledge, it aims to replace patterns of extraction with care, reciprocity, and renewal. The campus becomes a place of learning, healing, and storytelling, an architecture that grows with Country and reawakens the layers of life, memory, and meaning across Naarm/Melbourne.