North Gardens Sculpture Park Landscape Master Plan, Ballarat Mandy Nicholson (Tharangalk Art), Glenn Romanis. Isobel Paton (Basalt: Art. Landscape, Sculpture) and David S. Jones (Deakin Universitu)

摘要

Deep listening has enabled this project's landscape team to produce a strong and genuine consultation process with Traditional Custodians. The landscape masterplan for this park in Ballarat, Victoria is remarkable for its significant and in-depth analysis of the cultural values and knowledge of the landscape on the edge of Lake Wendouree. The masterplan reframes the ambitions and aspirations of a number of Western practices, in particular "sustainability," replacing them with Wadawurrung concepts of nurturing, healing, learning, sharing and cultural relationship-building. The project demonstrates how strategies for landscape change can be generated by and with Traditional Custodians, how they can be grounded in a deep understanding of Country and how they can create ripples of effect beyond the immediate scope of the project.