# How to practise what you preach | Sarah Lynn Rees Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-speaks-weekly-7434039/how-to-practise-what-you-preach-sarah-lynn-rees Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-speaks-weekly-7434039/how-to-practise-what-you-preach-sarah-lynn-rees.md Podcast: [Design Speaks Weekly](https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-speaks-weekly-7434039) Published: 2026-04-06T18:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://designspeaksweekly.podbean.com/e/how-to-practice-what-you-preach-sarah-lynn-rees/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jaa3t2unjvezkw7f/EP30_SLR.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/design-speaks-weekly-7434039/episodes/how-to-practise-what-you-preach-sarah-lynn-rees Duration seconds: 1258 ## Resource Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolwaypeoples of north-east Lutruwita/Tasmania. In addition to her role as associate principal at national architecture studio Jackson Clements Burrows, Sarah is an academic and writer. Over the course of her career, Sarah has been a prominent advocate for Indigenising the built environment, leading systemic reform in many ways – most notably by updating The National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA) to require practitioners to demonstrate a level of understanding of culture, Country and Indigenous engagement processes. In today’s episode, Sarah speaks on how her activism and support for Indigenous agency and leadership in architecture is being realised in project conception, procurement and delivery. Further Reading Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Hub by Jackson Clements Burrows Architectshttps://architectureau.com/articles/atlantic-fellows-for-social-equity-hub-by-jackson-clements-burrows/ Winning design unveiled for WSU Indigenous Centre of Excellencehttps://architectureau.com/articles/winning-design-unveiled-for-wsu-indigenous-centre-of-excellence/ It costs nothing to carehttps://architectureau.com/articles/it-costs-nothing-to-care/ Design competitions: Starting from Countryhttps://architectureau.com/articles/design-competitions-starting-from-country/ Indigenizing practice: Documenting Indigenous projects for publicationhttps://architectureau.com/articles/indigenizing-practice-documenting-indigenous-projects-for-publication/ Indigenizing practice: To award, or not to award?https://architectureau.com/articles/indigenizing-practice-to-award-or-not-to-award/ Blakitecture: Beyond acknowledgement and into actionhttps://architectureau.com/articles/blakitecture-beyond-acknowledg… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/design-speaks-weekly-7434039/episodes/how-to-practise-what-you-preach-sarah-lynn-rees/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-speaks-weekly-7434039/how-to-practise-what-you-preach-sarah-lynn-rees.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.