Carroll Go-Sam

Carroll Go-Sam is an Indigenous Australian architect and academic.

Carroll Go-Sam was born in Queensland and is of Dyirbal gumbilbara bama heritage with ties to the Tully, Herbert and Wild River region near Ravenshoe, North Queensland.^[1] She studied architecture at the University of Queensland, graduating with a B.Arch. with Honours in 1997.

Career[]

After graduation, Go-Sam was a Research Fellow with the Indigenous Design Place at the University of Queensland. Go-Sam is a lecturer in Indigenous Architecture themes and housing for public and civic spaces within the School of Architecture, Aboriginal Environments Research Centre.

Her designs have featured at TAKE2: Housing Design in Indigenous Australia and Gunyah Goondie Wurley: the Aboriginal Architecture of Australia. Go-Sam jointly organised the charrettes at the RR Memorial Forum held in June 2018.^[2] Her design work was included in the Shroud House Project of 2005.^[3]

Published works[]

• Go-Sam, C. (2020). Dossier-rights and reclamations. Architecture Australia. 109 (2): 53.
• Go-Sam, C. (2020). Future indigeneity. Architecture Australia. 109 (2): 54.
• Hall, N., Memmott, P., Barnes, S., Redmond, A.,, Go-Sam, C., Nash, D., Frank, T., and Simpson, P. (2020). Pilyii Papulu Purrukaj-ji (Good housing to prevent sickness): a study of housing, crowding and hygiene-related infectious diseases in the Barkly Region, Northern Territory. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
• Andrew, B., Neath, J., Marino, C. Gilbert, J., Phillips, C. and Go-Sam, C. (2019). Representation, remembrance and the Memorial. Landscape architecture Australia: 34-39.
• Milligan, B., Blake, C., Hall, N.L., Selvey, L., Grodecki, H., Jackson, G., Go-Sam, C., and Veronese, T. (2019). Safe and Healthy Drinking Water in Indigenous Local Government Areas Program: Service Delivery Model Prerequisites for Success. QWater Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 20 November 2019.
• Go-Sam, C. (2018). Indigeneity, agency and Australian civitas. Traditional dwellings and settlements review. 30 (1): 67.
• Go-Sam, C. (2018). Gaps in Indigenous repair. Repair: Australian Pavilion. Edited by Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright. New York: Actar Publishers, 64-73.
• Go-Sam, C. and Keys, C. (2018) Mobilising Indigenous agency through cultural sustainability in architecture: are we there yet? The handbook of contemporary Indigenous architecture. Edited by Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert L. Refiti, and Daniel J. Glenn. Singapore: Springer Nature: 347-380.
• Go-Sam, C. (2018). Do Yugambeh-Bundjalung cultural landscapes matter? Architecture Australia. 107 (1): 51-53.
• Memmott, P. and Go-Sam, C. (2016). Shifting Australian Indigenous Settlements. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series. 278: 1-23.
• Memmott, P., Go-Sam, C., Dewi, P., Budiyanto, H., Safeyah, M., Hasan, R. and Shan, J. (2016). History and the legitimacy of historic structures. Berkeley, CA : IASTE : CEDR.
• Go-Sam, C. and Memmott, P. (2016). Remote indigenous settlements-more than tiny dots on a map. Architecture Australia. 105 (5): 53-54.
• Go-Sam, C. (2014). Assimilating problems: from humpies to traditional houses. SAHANZ. 31: 435-447.
• Habibis, D., Memmott, P., Phillips, R. Go-Sam, C., Keys, C. and Moran, M. (2013). Housing conditionality, Indigenous lifeworlds and policy outcomes: toward a resonseive housing provision. AHURI Final Report Series. 7-86.
• Go-Sam, C. (2012). Resisting Brisbane. Finding Country Project. Part of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy from 29 August-29 September 2012.
• Davidson, J., Go-Sam, C. Memmott, P. and Grant, E. (2012). Building new housing in remote Indigenous communities. AHURI Research and Policy Bulletin.
• Memmott, P., Greenop, K., Clarke, A., Go-Sam, C., Birdsall-Jones, C. (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. Edited by Boyd Hunter and Nicholas Biddle. Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press. 241-279.
• Memmott, P., Birdsall-Jones, C., Go-Sam, C., Greenop, K. and Corunna, V. (2011). Modelling crowding in Aboriginal Australia. AHURI positioning paper. i-52.
• Go-Sam, C. (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).
• Davidson, J., Memmott, P., Go-Sam, C. and Grant, E. (2011). Remote Indigenous housing procurement: a comparative study. AHURI Final Report (167) i-144.
• Go-Sam, C. (2010). Sep Yama: "Ground you cannot see" Finding Country: a primer (exhibition review). Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts. 11: 154-159.
• Davidson, J., Go-Sam, C. and Memmott, P. (2010). Remote Indigenous housing procurement and post-occupancy outcomes: A comparative study. AHURI Positioning Paper 129 1-74.
• Memmott, P., Passi, C., Go-Sam, C., Thomson, L. and Sheppard, L. (2009). Family violence in the Torres Strait: a report commissioned by the Queensland Department of Community Services.
• Go-Sam, C. (2008). 'Lest We Forget': Working with and against Indigenous design paradigms. Architecture Australia. 97 (5): 53.
• Memmott, P. and Go-Sam, C. (2007). Spinifex houses of the western desert. Gunyah, goondie & wurley: The Aboriginal architecture of Australia. Edited by Paul C. Memmott. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Qld Press. 208-231.
• Memmott, P., Chambers, C., Go-Sam, C. and Thomson, L. (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.
• Memmott, P., Channells, G., Go-Sam, C., Stacy, R., Spring, F. and Taylor, S. (2004). Evaluation report of National Indigenous Family Violence Grants Program of the Office of the Status of Women. The University of Qld, St Lucia, Qld: Paul Memmott and Associates in association with AERC.
• 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.
• Memmott, P. and Go-Sam, C. (2003). Synthesising Indigenous Housing Paradigms: An Introduction to TAKE 2. TAKE 2: 12-17.
• Memmott, P. and Go-Sam, C. (2000). Aboriginal architecture. Edited by Kleinert, S. and Neale, M.. Melbourne: Oxford University Press: 405-413.
• Memmott, P. and Go-Sam, C. (1999). Australian Indigenous architecture: its forms and evolution. Thresholds, Launceston/Hobart, 28 Sept - 1 Oct, 1999. Launceston, Tas: SAHANZ
• Calma, T., Go-Sam, C., Ahmat, R., Chaney, F., Pholeros, P. and Haynen, O. Fixing houses, busting myths. National Indigenous Housing Conference. Architecture Australia. 97 (1). 40.

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