Finding a moment of mid-festival calm while being immersed in Tasmanian Aboriginal culture is the concept behind a unique Mona Foma experience.
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Kipli paywuta lumi is a celebration of art, architecture, language and food featuring a bushwalk through the Trevallyn Nature Reserve finishing at a specially-designed domed hut.
Here, ticket holders will share a meal created by Tasmanian Aboriginal catering company palawa kipli, while listening to a soundscape of spoken palawa kani.
The first palawa project for Mona Foma in Launceston, curator Emma Pike said it was likely to become an ongoing component of the festival.
"I think it's taken us a little too long to engage with the palawa community, which we are really thrilled to be doing this year," she said.
"We hope that people find a moment of mid-festival calm. They can kind of relax, check themselves ... but at the same time experience some really beautiful things."
The design and construction of the hut was a collaboration between multiple sources, including Indigenous architect Samantha Rich and Dave Gough.
A trawlwoolway man, Gough said he hoped people who encountered the space would feel immersed in all elements palawa culture.
"It's part of my culture and something that's really interested me," he said.
"I am hoping people will come into this space to feel and understand our cultural history, in terms of the internals of what a traditional hut would have looked like," he said.
People without a ticket to kipli paywuta lumi are still able to experience the hut, with the installation open Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
With a third of Mona Foma attendees coming from interstate for the festival, Rich said there was a lot to be learned from the history of palawa architecture.
"I really think it would be great if there are more Aboriginal people in architecture," she said.
"Because we have this history and it's interesting and complex, and adapted for Australian climate and landscape. So I think there's a lot the architecture industry can learn, from knowing more about our history."