Riawunna setting | Proposed design ideas
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• Micro-gardens • External views • Riawunna cultural garden - sacred space to contain Nation Stones
• Fire pit - part of Riawunna cultural garden • Protected healing circle
• Water • Sculpture
• Meeting places
pieces could present the start of an educational trail • Plants that reflect our first people’s cultural calendar - particular plants represent times of the year i.e. some flowering plants indicate when snakes are ‘warming up’ and out of hibernation, other plants signify adjacency with materials that can be useful to community (plants for string making and basket weaving) • As water has some significance in Tasmanian Aboriginal culture the inclusion of some type of water feature, or some representation of water (perhaps shells?) would be appropriate in this ‘triangle’ of space.
The reference group were keen to explore how the ‘university square’ could be used to promote connection between the nearby buildings, as well as welcome people to the site – they identified a number of ways of doing this which included: • Use of big trees (perhaps the existing ones) to form good framing and sitting places at • building’s edges • A range of smaller (micro) garden spaces, medicinal plants • Places to sit (landscape inspired furniture) • Providing infrastructure, constructs and opportunities that promote lingering in the area • (incidental educational opportunities through signage and plant types and history of uses to • community This space presents a real opportunity to create a more public cultural garden (separate from the Riawunna garden) which thoroughly embeds Tasmanian Aboriginal presence on this site by inclusion of things such as: • Creation of a meeting space within the landscape: the whole garden needs to be a gathering space for large or small groups and for formal and informal ceremonies • Inclusion of a fire pit, or similar in a central location. This would provide a space for gathering, ceremony and welcome • Installation of culturally relevant sculpture or art
Requirements • Riawunna cultural garden • Water as a key landscape element
“Core to Riawunna is its students, its staff, and the Aboriginal Community (both internal and external), - ‘it must reflect the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community’ - its connections to Country are physical, emotional, visual and spiritual – and it is key that these connections are considered in relation to Riawunna the ‘building’. As such, any building/ space that is designated Riawunna should be representative of these connections – inside and outside must come together - to be able to walk from the internal space directly onto Country is integral to any design.” Knowledge of Country
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