Can we imagine the Birrarung/Yarra River like this?
This is an exciting vision created by Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070, an exhibition opening at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria Australia from next Friday, 23 August.
Ray Edgar in The Age has previewed the exhibition, which features eight landscape architecture practices invited by the NGV to reimagine the Birrarung, transforming it to a more natural pre-colonial state. Our vision for the Birrarung transforms a 4km stretch of South Yarra and Richmond into an urban forest along the river.
The exhibition’s timeline emphasises the profession’s long-term focus. Our Global Design Director, Kirsten Bauer, was among the designers to talk with Edgar and said “A landscape is not instant. You design a process that may go for hundreds of years, hopefully. It’s culture, science and art working together”.
Ewan McEoin, senior design curator at the NGV, says, “This exhibition is there to help people imagine what is possible…Then start asking for it.”
