Tyson Yunkaporta
Senior Fellow, Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University; Founder of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab and the Indigenous Systems Knowledge Collective; Author of Sand Talk, Right Story Wrong Story, and Snake Talk
Background
Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, arts critic, researcher, and member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World – winner of the Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards, and the Ansari Institute’s Randa and Sherif Nasr Book Prize on Religion & the World, awarded to an author who explores global issues using Indigenous perspectives. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
At the School of System Change
Tyson is a contributor to the session 'Weaving and harvesting meaning' on the Making Sense of Systems Learning & Practice Series in 2026.
