Lake Tyrrell Tourism Infrastructure Design, Sea Lake, Victoria
Built on the land of the Wergaia peoples (Boorong clan)
Thomson Hay Landscape Architects
On receiving an invitation to review this project my first action was to look it up online. The striking imagery of a pink mirage-like scene that popped straight up made me accept the invitation, thinking, almost without thinking, “I would love to see that!” This series of events – hearing of something and then looking it up on the internet – is not an unusual activity; so much modern activity is structured or aided by digital information. But this project’s specific location and the constructed landscape that it comprises have a particularly strong link to the viewing and styling practices precipitated by visual social media in the framing of the story about the project’s development.
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