Eight landscape architecture and design firms reimagine the lands and waters of Birrarung in new NGV exhibition
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Eight landscape architecture and design firms reimagine the lands and waters of Birrarung in new NGV exhibition
Birrarung 2070 with South Eastern Freeway removed and repurposed. Image: Aspect Studios.



MELBOURNE.- Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 invites eight leading Australian landscape architecture and design firms to reimagine the lands and waters of Birrarung (the Yarra River) and create an exciting vision for how communities can better access, engage with and care for this important living ecosystem.

Presented by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in association with the Birrarung Council and guided through consultation with Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Elders, the exhibition showcases provocative and innovative design proposals by: Aspect Studios, Bush Projects, McGregor Coxall, Office, Openwork, Realm Studios, SBLA and TCL.

Through a thought-provoking and visually-arresting exhibition featuring renders, illustrations, 3D models, interactive maps and multimedia, each studio will present their vision for a site along the river corridor in the year 2070 – spanning from the city centre, the eastern suburbs and through to its source in the Yarra Ranges.

Teams were invited to explore how emerging technologies, science and First Nations knowledge systems might influence or enhance our relationship with Birrarung over the next five decades. Teams will present both speculative and real-world solutions for the future management of our waterways, highlighting the valuable role and impact of landscape design in the protection of our waterways.

• Presented through cinematic images and animations, Aspect Studios have conceived of a vivid future designed around a broadened river corridor, supported by expansive parklands made possible by the removal of the Eastern Freeway. Aspect Studios proposes a river landscape at the heart of the city where big trees and swimmable waterways are at the core of the community.

• Bush Projects transports visitors into a future where increasing pressures on land use, climate change and biodiversity loss have eroded natural ecosystems to a critical point of national priority. In response, the Upper Yarra catchment area is established as a biodiversity protection zone only accessible by Traditional Custodians and the River Rangers whose role in protecting our environment is respected and revered by the community at large.

• Using advanced data modelling of population growth, urban development, public sentiment and environmental change, McGregor Coxall literally and figuratively project a vision of the future of Birrarung. Presented as an animated projection across a large-scale topography model of the Birrarung catchment, the proposal presents a visual timeline where decision making relating to the river and its lands is based on data-based research, cultural knowledge and environmental conditions.

• Shining a spotlight on the inequity in land and water use along Birrarung, Office will premiere a new video work that questions how the lands surrounding the Birrarung are used for private and public activity, where the river’s waters are siphoned to, and who has access to the enjoyment of this public land and amenity.

• Openwork envision a radical moment in the governance of Greater Melbourne that sees the Birrarung catchment area secede from the current structure of local governments to form an autonomous territory with independently agreed behaviours and strategies for future infrastructure development. In their proposal, key infrastructure, including major roads, drains and transmission towers within the catchment boundary are repurposed for use by human, plants and animals.

• Using urban density and heat mapping analysis, Realm Studios have designed an alternative to Melbourne’s current trajectory of increasingly overheated urban conditions. Instead, through a series of postcards from the future, the designers invite audiences to imagine a city where land has been given back to Birrarung, historic buildings become the site of aquaculture and autonomous robotic entities help care for the landscape.

• Creating a composite map of Birrarung made from layered photographs captured over many months, SBLA uncover the often-imperceptible layers that form the river ecosystem. From insects to the river’s currents, household rubbish and rainwater runoff, the map presents a diagram for the river’s present condition alongside future interventions, such as soft-scaped gardens and footpaths.

• Tracing the geological transformations that result from a distant future shaped by fire, drought, flood and a dramatic shift in human habitation away from the river’s lands, TCL will present detailed core samples that offer a glimpse into the environmental events and collective cultural decisions that could occur into the future. The core samples reveal how the way we live with Birrarung can either defend or destruct the landscape far below the surface.










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