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LANGUAGE AND LANDSCAPE

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003............Acknowledgement / Introduction 004............Navigating Narrative

- Landscape narrative lineage.

0 0 7. . . . . . . . . . . .W r i t t e n o n L a n d - C o n t e x t o f M e l b o u r n e 0 1 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . F ra m i n g n a r ra t i v e t h ro u g h i n d i v i d u a l p e r s p e c t i v e f u r t h e r.

- The City of Maribyrnong 0 1 3 . . . . . . . . . . . .’ S p a c e B e t w e e n R a i n d r o p s ’

- The City of Moreland 0 1 7. . . . . . . . . . . .T h e B r i e f 019............How time is accurately placed in the written narrative of space

New naming techniques established.

022............Design development into a design proposal

025............Reference List

Acknowledgement

I a c k n o w l e d g e t h e T h e Wu r u n d j e r i Wo i w u r r u n g p e o p l e a s t h e T r a d i t i o n a l C u s t o d i a n s o f t h e l a n d I p r e s e n t t h i s d o c u m e n t . I ’d l i k e t o recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters, and thank them for protecting this terrain and its ecosystems since time immemorial. I pay our respects to Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all First Nations people who read this document.

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navigating narrative

This task is brought together in the form of a Timeline. Along this timeline I reference each of the texts that allowed me to see landscape through a new way of understanding language. Between each of these texts are my peronal opinions and values that give clarity to why these text left me well. The timeline begins to draw relationships to texts and my personal values and opinions which then leaves space for peronal reflection. This timeline can be read as a reflection and conclusion of the my toughts in different points in time.

At this stage I was particularly

drawn to the thoughts provoked through “Learning the Grammar of Animacy” by Robin Kimmerer, “Doesn’t this mean that speaking in English, thinking in English, somehow gives us permission to disrespect nature?... by d e n y i n g ev e r yo n e e l s e t h e r i g h t t o b e P e r s o n s ? . . .wo u l d n’ t i t b e d i f f e rent if nothing was an it” (unknown student of Robin Kimmer). I began to curate my understanding and interpretation of how the english language

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has defined the landscape in Australia. The timeline points out further documents that research this idea. These steps began steering the direction of how I would navigate narrative and landscape.

Line of Inquiry and New Research Introduced

Language Richness

Language & Technology

Language Richness is first explored through ‘Thirty two names for field’, written by Manchan Magan and ‘Landmarks’ by Robert Macfarlane. The themes in their respective novels overlap and I begin to see that language richness is heavily impacted by the richness of the landscape.

“A portion of land that the eye can only comprehend at a glance”. (J.B Jackson)

I began to explore the dilects of my family tree who come from Dalmatia, the dalmatian coast of Croatia.

Landscape Perspective

How we define landscape at a point in time is only expressed through the knowledge one has at that This idea of ‘technology moment in time. Language being the reason that and technology then lead landscape has been able into this idea of perspecto evolve its definition’ be- tive playing a larger role. comes the start of a line of Many writters have spoken enquiry into what exactly on this topic of defining is manipulating language landscape through time in modern society. As our and perspective. perspective changes due to technology, research shows that language adapts simultaneously.

Layers of Narrative in Landscape

Street Names & Land Identification

Narrative becomes an important way that people shape and make sense of landscape. “We can begin to understand landscape narrative not just as literal stories or texts to be read, but as integral parts to the processes that shape landscape in the first place”. (M. Poteister ‘Landscape Narratives’)

Street names and Land Identification came from recognising that the way we identify land today isn’t exactly a full representation of the layers of narrative in landscape. I began to research the only form of identification of narrative on land which happens to be in most cases, street names. Street names have an interesting story as a whole which I began to firstly research.

The line of research extended from just landscape language being something that is written to something larger that cannot always be represented.

Origins of Identification

The Un-named & their value

Marked Land

Along side street names, I began research into ways the Australian story has identified place. Art plays a major role in the Australian Indigenous forms of identification. Before text became the practiced in Australia, images through art could describe a place

Australian Representation

The Australian loss of language became a clear motive of research at this stage.

Identification Hierarchy

Navigation

Representation

Vocabulary and Landscape

Landscape in Practice

A timeline understanding and interpretation of how the english language has defined the landscape in Australia. A series of six insights are promted by referenced documents.

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written on the land

Through the first task it became clear that I had a strong interest in how narratives of landscape were documented in the landscape.

I then began to wonder why certain narratives in landscape are represented over others. This can be found in satues on main roads of towns but I was specifically interested in how landscapes are named. I researched the stories of Melbourne’s landscape names. Whose stories are important enough to be inbedded in the land forver? I found a few different authors that began to unpack the names chosen around the world but there were very few authors that wrote about the heirachy of stories. Arose was my fasination with the un-documented. How can naming be a way of remembering? could we better understand our landscape through identification beyond just street names? Could a new navigation to our land lead to a greater respect for land and past narratives?

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These thoughts took place in a map.

Line of Inquiry and New Research Introduced

Language Richness

Saved points in landscape identification show no representation of the richness of landscape which then affects how rich the language of the land is in Australia.

Language & Technology

Landscape Perspective

Layers of Narrative in Landscape

Street Names & Land Identification

The suggestion that landscape at a point in time is only expressed through the knowledge one has at that moment in time is explored closely in relation to the Australian aboriginal story and colonization in Australia. In that shift of land management, knowledge of land began to lose its richness in expression as there was a separation between ownership of land and knowledge of the land.

Layers of narrative in landscape show hierarchy in how they are saved into the naming of places.

In the naming of streets, identification of land is formed and disregard for what else that land could be known as is caused. In reading through some of the many controversies of naming streets over the decades, it becomes obvious that there are difficulties in the way it is changing the language of places.

Looking through maps of Australia, narratives are saved. However, what is identified is that a place only shows a single layer of that landscapes existance.

Origins of Identification

The origins of street names became clear that their primary function was to commemorate individuals or events and less about land organization and authentic identification of land.

The street name became a colonial silencing of indigenous cultures globally not just in Australia.

The Un-named & their value

Unorthodox Landmarking

Australian Representation

Identification Hierarchy

The Australian Representation is explored further in relation to naming as it is the strongest way stories can live repedetly into the future..

Navigation

Mapping and Navigation explored.

Something from the past becomes still relevent today due to representation. This inquiry starts to challenge the Australian representation.

Australian representation in the naming of land becomes how we form imprtance and significance.

Representation

Vocabulary and Landscape

Landscape in Practice

Landscape Architecture can become the driver of expression and land language. It becomes obvious through this enquiry that there has been a misrepresentation in past designs of Australian land.

If we want a language that feeds a deeper knowledge of land then reassessing past decisions of land becomes interesting.

The line of inquiry begins to look at what the simple street is doing that is controlling the way we speak, live our lives and express ourselves as a country.

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the city of Maribyrnong

Through the focus of The City of Maribyrnong, I begin to further explore the curation of the narrative that comes with what streets are named. In doing this, clear issues arose in how the past has framed particular narratives over others. I chose Mariyrnog not only becuase it is close to where I live, It also holds a greater narrative that is over 40,000 years old. I began interested in looking at the names that identify this site today and where their origins come from. This has been dveloped through a map diagram. The map diagram unpacks each name and highlights the key areas of concern with previous naming techniques.

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Line of Inquiry and New Research Introduced

Language Richness

The research dives into the specific language richness of the Maribyrnong area.

Maribyrnong is an inner suburb 8 km north-west of Melbourne, Victoria. Its local government area is the City of Maribyrnong, and is part of the River Ward. The river that flows through it has an incredible narrative that steps back 30,000 years.

Language & Technology

Landscape Perspective

Layers of Narrative in Landscape

Street Names & Land Identification

“How we define landscape at a point in time is only expressed through the knowledge one has at that moment in time.” (P.B Jackson, 2008)

In unpacking the language of the local area of Maribyrnong, layers of the landscape become to arise and a pcture of landscape is painted. The amount of words describing details int he landscape prove a knowledge that has been removed in current expression of Maribyrnong’s landscape.

Street names and Land Identification came from recognising that the way we identify land today isn’t exactly a full representation of the layers of narrative in landscape.

This is significantly aparent around the city of Maribyrnong.

This suggestion that was first discovered in earlier readings extends into the perspective of Maribyrnong. Words that define this landscape today stem from the knowledge we have accsess to in time.

Origins of Identification

There are two clashing forms of identification in the city of Maribyrnong.

The Un-named & their value

Using words from the local languages that speak to the lands origins is just one way the people who The origins of street live on tbis land today, innames in the area shine a cluding myself can better light on the incapability the under landscape.

English vocabulary has at describing land by landValue is the regard that scape phenomena. The something is held to word ‘River’ is overused deserve; the importance, and loses its significance worth, or usefulness of in its repetition among something. What we value Maribyrnong. becomes inbedded into the way we live and speak.

Marked Land

Australian Representation

This exploration into how Art plays a major role in the Australian Indigenous forms of identification proved interesting when comparing how expression in local indigenous languages of Maribyrnong has been replaced with a new form of identification in marking place with words over other forms of identification.

The Australian representation on land throughout Maribyrnong heavily references post-colonization events and individuals even though the land has been a significant place for Indigenous gatherings for tens of thousands of years.

In reading about the significance of Indigenous landmarks, it is clear that their narrative continues to be dismissed in history through the terminology of places.

Identification Hierarchy

The hierarchy of words in relation to ‘place’ is more aggressively misrepresenting a huge layer of history.

Navigation

Future Representation

Vocabulary and Landscape

Landscape in Practice

It is at this stage of the inquiry that vocabulary becomes a clear way that the English language is labelling the landscape. This is obvious in the comparison of the Indigenous local vocabulary of Maribyrnong and the current terms to describe streets.

In my current field of landscape architecture, I am working alongside my team at designing the streetscapes of new subdivisions in the West region of Melbourne. Even the part I play in choosing species on land and the representation of the maps I draw becomes clear in the process of expanding the landscape expression of the people who will live in these future streets.

The City of Maribyrnong

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On the land of Moreland, I began to extend further the ideas I have explored on narrative. One of my main lines of enquiry was into the identification of land through written text, specifically Street names. The origins of the streets I experienced prove to be closely connected to commemorate individuals or events. As discovered earlier the origins of these names prove the agenda of the council at the time of naming cared less about the land organization and authentic identification of land. There is clear colonial silencing of an indigenous culture existing. I then translated in a map diagram what I would label the same street I was experiencing if it was named purely after how I would describe the landscape’s qualit i e s s p e c i f i c to t h a t d ay. H ow ev e r , t h e r e a l i t y i s a l l n a m e s h av e a timeline. If street names were to be adapted to expand the public knowledge of landscape then it was interesting to explore which descriptions of land also sit on a timeline. Land Identification

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becomes something that generations can refer to so the words that describe the need to be able to live as long as the land itself lives. In response to my emotions towards the lack of meaning in our current street identification, I finish with a sonnet written by myself which expresses my feelings towards moments in time that become lost because they can’t be expressed in our current language of landscape.

Line of Inquiry and New Research Introduced

Language Richness

It became clear in this line of enquiry into language richness that land can only be as rich as its depth of knowledge. Knowing is richness. The landscape that is most common to my environment is explored and its richness is framed by the knowledge I have access to. This refers back to what P.B Jackson speaks about in ‘The Word Itself’. This idea is that landscape is only as far as the eye can see. Further research through drawing techniques tries to deepen my understanding of the richness my immediate landscape holds.

Language & Technology

Technology evolves in areas we invest time into. A new language has emerged since the increased use of the internet.

“New technology is not good or evil in and of itself.

It’s all about how people choose to use it”. (Wrong, 2012) This work by David Wrong opened up this line of enquiry into what could be done to evolve technology into a space of landscape identification.

Landscape Perspective

Layers of Narrative in Landscape

Street Names & Land Identification

Origins of Identification

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

(A.Leopold, 1990)

Layers of narrative unpacked becomes quite specific in this new local perspective of West Brunswick. Through different mapping techniques and activities, a new layer of narrative is proposed.

It is recognised at this stage of the research inquiry that names have a timeline. If street names were to be adapted to expand the public knowledge of landscape then it was interesting to explore which descriptions of land also sit on a timeline. Land Identification becomes something that generations can refer to so the words that describe them need to be able to live as long as the land itself lives.

In exploring the specific landscape that I live within, I began to expand my knowledge of its origins.

This perspecitive of landscape and the words of A.Leopold suggest that perhaps the language that identifies land needs to shift in its own perspective.

This perspective of land is obvious in the way native languages spoke to land.

The Un-named & their value

An activity I mapped out during this line of inquiry was about describing the streets I walked through as if they were only named by The origins of the street what that day presented names prove to be closely as. In describing the qualiconnected to commemo- ties of that day and where rate individuals or events. I was in time, the value As discovered earlier the was placed in moments origins of these names usually unaddressed. An prove the agenda of the issue I came to was when I council at the time of couldn’t think of a word to naming cared less about describe a particular mothe land organization and ment. These moments are authentic identification un-named yet still have of land. value so I proceeded to form a language of navigaThere is clear colonial tion made up of un-named silencing of an indigenous moments in landscape. culture existing.

Marked Land

Marking land has become inbedded in the way we speak. Although mapping is another way marks are formed to navigate space.

In disecting the map of my local area, an investigation was made into new forms of mark making.

Australian Representation

Consistant in this dialogue of resaerch is the significance of past representation in Australian landscape language and here I begin to challenge what is represented on Australian land.

Identification Hierarchy

Navigation

Navigation becomes a new line of inquiry that came from the research into human’s relationship with their local landscape.

“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plans, and animals.” (K.Watson, 2001) The challenge then became giving navigation depth that aligned with an authentic voice for where someone is.

Future Representation

Vocabulary and Landscape

Future Representation Vocabulary is tranformed became an extention from through a map that navigation. identifies the current weaknesses in the English “You can’t use an old map vocabulary. to see a new land”. (G. Hamel, 2005)

Landscape in Practice

In some way I see landscape architecture and the work of an artist, but instead we are crafting the future lives people will live.

It’s an art form inbedded in reality and relies on future projection but being paying respect to what the land represents to many.

“IMPHILIA STREET”

“1A STREET”

“ B A L D L AW N S T R E E T ”

“IMPHILIA STREET”

“PIZZA STREET” “WOLLOM STREET”

“SLOAD STREET”

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“STOOFS STREET”

“CAXIOMS STREET”

“HOPE STREET” “NONPECARSTINAL STREET”

“CYNOSE STREET”

“TRUELLA STREET” “IMPHILIA STREET”

“TRUELLA STREET”

“ TA Q U I L I T Y S T R E E T ”

“BIRALECT STREET”

“ R ATA S T R E E T ” “WIMTHE STREET”

“IPOLSENCE STREET”

“LEASILESTREET” “NAFFITI STREET”

“ S P E TA L S T R E E T ”

“LECENT STREET”

“WELLIENCE STREET” “MOUTEMP STREET”

“IMPHILIA STREET”

“PERMESISSHA

SEASONAL SNOWING PETALS / “SPETALS”

OCCASIONAL RUBBISH THAT LOOKS LIKE ART / “RATA”

CLIMATE DEPENDANT TRANSLUSANT LEAVES / “TRUELLA”

FLUORESCENT LEAVES / “LESCENT”

TREE IMPERFECTIONS / “IMPHILEA”

GENERATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE

TIME DEPENDENTS

MUTED HIGHWAY SOUND ”CYNOSE’

WHEN PARKED CARS LEAVE A SINGLE LANE / “SINLANTEUR”

NAPPERBY ST “NAPPING”

HOPE STREET “GETTING THROUGH LOCKDOWN”

PIZZERIA “PIZZA”

1A / “STREET 1A”

PEOPLE DEPENDENT TREE WINDOWS / “TRYSTEL”

FEMANIE WEEDS / “WELLA”

SHORT FENCES / “STOOFS”

UNTOTICED / COUNCIL DEPENDENT EMBRACED WEEDS/ “WELLIENCE”

CRACKS CAUSED BY NATURE / “CAXIOMS”

OVERFLOWING LEAVES / “OVERBY”

ACCURATE CLIMATE ISOLATED PLANTING / “IPOLSENCE”

PLANT SHADE / “PLASHA”

MALE WEEDS / “WOLLOM”

WILL ALWAYS EXIST TREES ABOVE SKYLINE/ “TAQUILITY”

LEAVES SPOUTING FROM BRANCH / “LEASILES”

HUMAN VS NON-HUMAN STRUCTURE BALDING LAWN / “BALDLAWN”

NON-HUMAN GRAFFITI / “NAFFITI”

WILL NOW ALWAYS EXIST POST HUMAN INTERVENTION ROAD SLOPE / “SLOAD”

TREE MOUNDS/ “MOUTEMP”

WILL ALWAYS EXIST / FRESH WATER NOT GUARANTEED

LAND WITH NO PERSONAL CARE / “NONPECARSTINAL ”

PERMANENT SHADE / “PERMESISSHA”

WATER SHIMMER / “WIMTHE”

WILL ALWAYS EXIST IF WE LOOK AFTER PLANET

BIRD LANGUAGE / “BIRALECT”

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Space between raindrops

There are some qualities—some life giving things That have a silent life—unacknowledged, Like a word for the space between raindrops.

Wo r d s d e s c r i b e t h e l e a f , n o t b y i t s t r a n s p a r e n c y.

There is a street, I call it by its name.

Vo i c e w i t h w o r d s . W e s p e a k w i t h s h a l l o w t r a n s l a t i o n .

Can weeds be feminine? They can claim space too.

Loud memories take their space on a sign, —her name’s “King Street.”

She becomes now a title for a hoard.

N o p ow e r h a s t h e s h i n e o f t h e wa t e r.

But should some new day come—It’s lost through us.

And with a million unspoken truths, Navigation is what stands still through time.

Va l u e i s i n t h e vo i c e r e p r e s e n t e d .

A sonnet by Alice Sandric

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the brief how time is accurately placed in the written narrative of space

The objective of this brief is how time is accurately placed in the written narrative of space. Through the focus of The City of Maribyrnong, then the local streets of Moreland, an exploration into the narratives that describe streets become the framework of how we identify locations. In attending to this brief, clear issues arise in how the past has framed particular narratives over others. In unpacking each narrative, this investigation into time allows for room for approachable strategies in identifying locations and the mapping of people’s lives. New naming techniques can be established.

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Line of Inquiry and New Research Introduced

Language Richness

Language richness is inbedded in the brief as a clear motive for change.

The clear driver for change and richness comes from understanding how time impacts the identity of a landscape, “The objective of this brief is how time is accurately placed in the written narrative of space” (Brief)

Language & Technology

Landscape Perspective

Layers of Narrative in Landscape

Street Names & Land Identification

Origins of Identification

Perspective is important when it comes to the design of new land identification techniques. There is always a perspective, and how that perspective ages has the promise to be explored under this brief.

Narrative becomes an important way that people shape and make sense of landscape. “We can begin to understand landscape narrative not just as literal stories or texts to be read, but as integral parts to the processes that shape landscape in the first place”. (M. Poteister ‘Landscape Narratives’)

Street names and Land Identification came from recognising that the way we identify land today isn’t exactly a full representation of the layers of narrative in the landscape.

Whether they are removed or enhanced by new techniques of land identification, there is a place for it in the Melbourne setting.

There is clear colonial silencing of an Indigenous culture existing throughout Melbourne, but the future has the opportunity to change this. “The more you know, the less you need.” Is an Australian Aboriginal Saying with an unknown author. Perhaps identifying what isn’t needed can play the role in what needs to be pulled back to its core origin.

This brief allows for the layers in landscape to be voiced.

This theme of bring language back from over complicated Identification is explored.

The Un-named & their value

The word ‘Billabong’ is one example of an Australian Indigenous word that holds meaning to all Australians. It is a word to describe a watercourse which runs only after it rains.

It perfectly fits into this ongoing perspective that we choose what is to be named and then we miss the value in everything that we do not identify.

Marked Land

If identification of land is essential in society, is text the most beneficial form of marking a place on a map?

This question has the potential to be explored under this brief.

Australian Representation

The Australian Aboriginal loss of language stays on as a main driver for change.

It is a culture

Identification Hierarchy

Navigation

“Through the focus of Navigation being the The City of Maribyrnong, active educator for people then the local streets of and their local landscape Moreland, an exploration makes it play a large role into the narratives that in changing the way peodescribe streets become ple are actively speaking the framework of how about space. we identify locations. In attending to this brief, clear issues arise in how the past has framed particular narratives over others.” (Brief) This quote from the brief extracts this idea of ‘hierarchy of narratives’ that leads into how we identify street names which then leads to how we identify a whole landscape and the voice of past narratives that stays grasped to the landscape.

Future Representation

Vocabulary and Landscape

The brief points out the strategy to design a new way of mapping that looks through a 2021 set of eyes.

“A portion of land that the eye can only comprehend at a glance”. (Google definition, 2021) This particular definition explored by P.B Jackson again comes to mind.

Landscape in Practice

Mapping does play a large role in landscape architecture and my creative side does enjoy the potential that comes from dissecting land through mapping. Throughout my current work as a graduate landscape architect and helping in the production of streetscapes, mapping plays a key role. Perhaps new mapping techniques have the potential to open the language of landscape to the people who will eventually live there.

The existence of new techniques in mapping lays down a foundation for people to understand the land they live on more closely and embed that knowledge into their vocabulary.

“In unpacking each narrative, this investigation into time allows for room for approachable strategies in identifying locations and the mapping of people’s lives. New naming techniques can be established.” (Brief)

Vocabulary has the ability to be transformed by the development of new mapping techniques.

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new naming techniques established how time is accurately placed in the written narrative of space

Through documenting the landscape of streets and their current identification, I began to realise that even though a flower may live and die in a finite amount of time. Navigation is the real reason we have had to establish a sequence of words to describe a place and is one of the few reasons that language exists in the first place when it comes to identifying landscapes. It becomes clear that to accurately represent time in the written way we see Landscape, is to create a new form of navigation that acknowledges the story of place within it. This process reconsiders the purp o s e o f s t r e e t s i g n s a l to g e t h e r. T h i s t a c k l e s a l a r g e r i s s u e o f m i s representation in the written landscape. As seen when I explored

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the city of Marriybynong, the streets held no evidence to the story of aboriginal people that first occupied the land.

Line of Inquiry and New Research Introduced

Language Richness

At this stage. the language at the location of Brunswick West and the larger Maribyrnong area is mapped through innovative techniques. Language richness is embedded in the process of addressing what is absent from current forms of identifying land. Unpacking a land that has richness far more than what is identified by the general public is the first step towards addressing the issue.

Language & Technology

Technology has allowed the map to increase it’s activity among the public, people are more in touch with their surrounding than ever before. Forms of adaptions of adaptions in technology begin to be explored.

Landscape Perspective

Layers of Narrative in Landscape

Street Names & Land Identification

Origins of Identification

The Un-named & their value

Perspective begins to be explored in many different ways. This is important when it comes to the design of new land identification techniques.

Marcus Aurelius speaks a lot about perspective and some of his insights drew me to think further about what I was putting on paper. A simple quote from him states, “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is perspective, not the truth.

(M. Aurelis, date unknown)

The line of research into ‘Layers of Narrative in Landscape’ extended from just landscape language being something that is written to something larger that can be represented to a degree.

The way we identify land today does serve a purpose even if it has more potential. It was interesting to look into that purpose before shaping Identification into something new.

The way we identify land today does serve a purpose even if it has more potential. It was interesting to look into that purpose before shaping Identification into something new.

In identifying through the map the repetition of colonial silencing of Indigenous culture. There is a lot that is misrepresented like previously addressed.

Origins of Identification of course extends far beyond Colonial Australia so this begins to be a point of interest in drawing out new techniques of land identification.

In identifying missing terms from common land identification, the map proves possibility.

The Agency of Mapping

by James Corner became crucial into understanding this further. “...the surface of the map functions like an operating table, a staging ground or a theatre of operations upon which the mapper collects, combines, connects, marks, masks, relates and generally explores.”

(J.Corner, 2011)

In 2020, Roger Paez released a novel, ‘Operative Mapping - Maps as Design Tools’. Operative Mapping investigates the use of maps as a design tool, providing insight with the potential to benefit education and practice in the design disciplines.

The book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and strictly instrumental approaches of maps, opening up the possibility of working both pragmatically and critically by acknowledging the need for an effective transformation of the milieu based on an understanding of pre-existing conditions. Reading his work extended this line of enquiry into land identification.

Marked Land

Many different forms of marking land become part of the process of finding what is missing and what is important when we start identifying land through navigation. This begins to be unpacked.

Australian Representation

Australian misrepresentation in the way we identify land still stays as the key driver of the Inquiry.

Identification Hierarchy

An exploration into the narratives that describe streets become the framework in the maps. The hierarchy of landscape Listening to voices of narrative hidden behind those misrepresented be- titles and other forms of came cruicial at this stage landmarking is adapted. of addressing the brief. ”The complexity of landShorty O’Neill released a scapes make them difficult passage in 1983, ‘Rewriting to define, to put boundthe History of Australia, An aries around...” I began to Aboriginal Perspective’. research the work by By Andrew Saniga and his book ‘Making Landscape Architecture in Australia’ (A.Saniga, 2012)

Navigation

Navigation being the active educator for people and their local landscape makes it play a large role in changing the way people are actively speaking about space.

Representation

The main key of the brief outlined the significance of reimagining new forms of land identification. “In unpacking each narrative, this investigation into time allows for room for approachable strategies in Education in Navigation is identifying locations and explored more broadly. the mapping of people’s lives. New naming techNavigation was also niques can be estabimportant to the first nation lished.” (Brief) of Australia. “We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavored to live with the land; they seemed to live off it. I was taught to preserve, never to destroy.” (T.Dystra, 2018)

Vocabulary and Landscape

Landscape in Practice

Vocabulary has the ability to be transformed by the development of new mapping techniques.

With the influence of James Corner, there’s not much more I can say myself that he hasn’t said in his text, ‘Agency of Mapping’, “...But a landscape is so much more than that - it encapsulates society, politics and our existence on a planet where we’re bound by natural forces.

It’s how we give form to our land and cities. Ultimately it’s how we identify with places.” (J. Corner, 2012) The complexity of landscape is exciting when it comes to the potential landscape architecture has to reflect and participate in the creation of them.

Quite generally that is what I hope I can achieve individually as a landscape architect.

TI M E I N A DAY

PLAC E D I NTO NAVI GATI O N

TRAC KI N G LI FE S PAN

NAVI GATI O N I N PRACTI C E

KN OWLE D G E E X PAN D E D

N EW LI FE S PAN / LAN G UAG E

The Guide to Knowledge, or Repertory of Facts in the Introduction of new Navigation.

ALKIRA - bright, sunny (north line) ALLAWAY - rest, sit down (largest green surface) ATTUNGA - high place (Highest point) BANYULA - many trees (Line of parkland) BARGOOGA - home (My home) BINOWEE - green place (Another line of green land) BUNDALEER - among trees (Line of trees that shield the tollway) AKUNA - flowing water (Water source) WARRINA - good view (Bridge connects Moreland to Moonee Valley) WEEROONA - resting place (A quiet line of roads) YALLAROO - beautiful flowers (The most unique floral street) YALLEMBEE - to stay (The main street) CABBAGA - a garden (Smallest gardens in the moreland area) ECHUCA - meeting of the waters (The origins of Indigenous gathering land) GUNYAH - place of shelter (Barkly Square shopping centre and safe zones for shelter)

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