With S-I Projects, we have collaborated with Monash Urban Lab and N’arweet Carolyn Briggs to design the exhibition space for baanytaageek - Great Swamp Fragments at MUMA Museum.
The following project text is written by Nigel Bertram and Catherine Murphy -
A collaborative research project, baanytaageek: Great Swamp Regenerative Park, is underway to (re)find these lost landscapes. Involving a multidisciplinary team from the fields of architecture, landscape, planning, water, ecology and agriculture, the project will explore ways to (re)present this place as viable, inclusive and productive in the context of the Healesville to Phillip Island Nature Link, which aims to create a bio-link (otherwise known as a wildlife corridor) of national significance. Currently fragmentary and highly vulnerable in the face of expanding urban processes and climate pressures such as sea-level rise, we want to draw attention to the suppressed natural water and soil systems of this altered ecosystem as the foundation of a regenerative future.
Part of the research project, the exhibition baanytaageek: Great Swamp Fragments features 3D point cloud models of swampland remnants with moving and still images, enabling their intricate and complex details to be ‘visited’ in new ways. Mostly locked away from view, their re-presentation renders these isolated places visible and provides a new type of accessibility without violating the spaces’ fragility. A large map shows layers of archival material that trace the Great Swamp’s dynamic past, revealing the underlying waterscape in the context of radical colonial change. Boon Wurrung language provides access to parbinata’s (Mother Earth’s) grand masterplan of learning.
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