Enclaves and Field Conservation

This body of work seeks to use the protective notion of the enclave as a tool in the collaborative mapping and identification of key water moments and key cultural moments in a landscape. Both moments, Reading Landscape and Reading Country, require an identification and expansion of the enclave, allowing the boundaries to be re-negotiated in order to provide a range of adaptive programs.⠀
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Reading Landscape proposes that an understanding of hydrological systems through a reading of the contours can identify optimal water harvesting locations. Reading Country proposes that landscape architecture can play a role in the engagement of Aboriginal cultural sites, enframing and protecting their stories and relationships through the power of the enclave.⠀
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This project also pursues a constant mapping and reworking of site through three fields of knowledge: Agriculture, Conservation, and Aboriginal. It uses these to address different qualities in the landscape: moments that are more subtle than a spectacular view but that tell stories of connection between culture, water, and land. These stories are incredibly powerful, protected, and conserved through the power of collaborative design and field conservation.⠀
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Tom would like to thank the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation, and in particular Uncle Barry and Sophia Pearce, for their collaboration and support. Thank you to the people of the Barkindji Nation for their sharing of knowledge and generosity that was invaluable to the following work.⠀