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"The Ian Potter Centre at Melbourne’s Federation Square is located on the banks
of the lower stretches of Birrarung, the Yarra River. For Reimagining Birrarung
Design Concepts for 2070, on until 2 February 2025, the river flows into the
gallery through ideas, images, objects and stories.
In this bold and unusual exhibition, we listen to traditional owners and get
inside the imaginations of eight of Australia’s most innovative landscape
architecture studios. By looking at “possible” and “preferred” futures, this
exhibition frames the river as a complex, diverse, interconnected ecosystem
that nurtures our health and is essential to human and non-human communities.
Urban rivers are being rethought internationally. In Australian cities, where
big city rivers are often estuaries, the problems of waterways and wetlands are
inseparable from colonisation and urbanisation. The fate of these cities as the
climate heats up is tied to their rivers.
Melbourne was established in 1835 at the lower stretches of Birrarung where
salt water from Port Phillip Bay travels about 10 kilometres upstream. Now
metropolitan Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower
reaches."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
