CoLAB: An Extended Ecological Collaboration & Practice

 CoLAB considers the proposed Parks Victoria Dredging Maintenance Program within Port Phillip Bay Victoria,

and its potential to transport sediment through bay currents to extended coastal council stakeholders, here the

Bayside City Council, and many more stakeholders across the bay.

The Lab simulation allows these voices to be heard; extended stakeholders can gather, create conversation,

simulate dredge material upon site and test and record new coastal management schemes and structures that

respond to the increase in sediment pollution on the coastline, thus creating new desired outcomes. These

new coastal Management Structures can be programmable, used as seats tables, shelters and viewing

platforms. These can be moved, rotated and extracted, curating and accumulating sediment to generate land.

This process in turn allows a more dynamic response to changing conditions to curate and promote the

emergence of new coastal ecologies.

CoLAB acknowledges these actions on a larger scale, and extends the agency to collaboratively include those

that may be effected by an event, by developing a responsive and dynamic way of practice by managing

coastal environments through the Lab and the generation of new management tools. By extending this agency

radius, we may acknowledge our actions on a much larger scale and start to think of our landscape as a

collaborative one.