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Landscapes

On December 22, 2011

People have connections to them; they influence us as much as we influence them.

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Woven Stories, Layered Landscapes

On December 1, 2011

Parks Victoria have produced a video on Aboriginal Cultural knowledge, a great introduction to the notion that people, practices and a landscape are tightly related.

People say that after they have been in an area for a while, they start to become a reflection of that environment. Sometimes, the environment starts to reflect the […]

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The park as a design space

On November 10, 2011

My case study site is Wilson’s Promontory, a national park situated in the rural south east of Victoria, Australia. Whilst my thesis will broadly discuss the roll of environmental understanding (from a cultural geography perspective) in the design of technology for use in these types of settings, the “practical problem” I’m faced with is […]

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Personal Geographies

On June 20, 2011

Personal geographies is a term I’ve been using in (thus far private) writing and preliminary analysis of diary studies and interviews I’ve conducted with park rangers. The above picture is the result of combining a particular kind of personal geography – jogging trails through New York city. It’s also an increasingly common type of visualisation; […]

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Metabolism, the city of the future

On March 8, 2011

Following on from the recent city/space theme is a new exhibition at Tokyo’s Mori Art gallery in Roppongi Hills entitled “Metabolism”.

Metabolism is an architecture movement that started in Japan in the 1960s. From the press release:

Metabolism which sprang up in the 1960s remains the most widely known modern architecture movement to […]

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