... because we humans can only work for a future we can imagine.

One of the virtual 'skins' from Imagine The Future Inc's re-interpretation of a traditional Kulin possum skin cloak created by Csaba Szamosy from images contributed by project partners, Painting the future real, 1996.

[2002 version and the accompanying story, Saltwater wetlands.]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The following images were used in this digital composite about coastal wetland ecosystems of the basalt plain:


White Headed Stilt contributed by Parks Victoria.


Pelicans on a mud island in Port Phillip Bay, photographed by Patrick O'Callahan for the Marine Discovery Centre at Queensciff, and contributed to the project by him on behalf of the Centre.


Rednecked Stints in coastal wetlands, contributed by Melbourne Water.

A Kulin shell midden at Point Lillias surrounded by coastal vegetation, photographed by Mark Trengove of Geelong Indigenous Nursery. Point Lillias is the proposed site for a storage facility for toxic chemicals that is expected to replace the Coode Island facility within the densely populated docklands area of Melbourne. As well as being cultural significant to Kulin people because of the middens and other archaeological sites, Point Lillias is also an important feeding ground for migratory birds, and the seasonal habitat of one of Australia's most endangered species, the Orange Bellied Parrot.


Young mangroves and saltmarsh on a mud island in Port Phillip Bay photographed by Patrick O'Callaghan for the Marine Discovery Centre at Queenscliff, and contributed to the project by him on the Centre's behalf.


The estuary of the Little River, showing mudflats, saltmarsh and saltbush vegetation, photographed by Mark Trengove of Geelong Indigenous Nursery.


A tidal rockpool and lichen covered basalt boulders photographed for the project by Merrill Findlay.


Guano streaked basalt rocks and tidal rockpool photographed for the project by Merrill Findlay.

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'Painting the future real' is an initiative of Imagine The Future Inc with the support of project partners.
For more information, contact Imagine The Future at
340 Gore Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065, Australia
phone: +61 3 9417 2033, fax: +61 3 9416 0767
email: imagine@peg.apc.org, or merrillf@dingo.vut.edu.au

[Page history: created and first published on www.ecoversity.org.au as part of Painting the future real (1995-97), the prototype for Redreaming the plain (1998-2002); taken off-line in 1998 and re-posted in a slightly revised form in July 2004 as a web archive. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.]