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

AGRICULTURE

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 Ploughing the plain.]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The following images were used in this digital composite about farming the basalt plain.


The man in this photograph is believed to be one of the Chernsides who owned Werribee Park, in one of his wheat crops. The image is from the State Library of Victoria's Hood Collection and was contributed to the project by the current custodians of Werribee Park mansion, Parks Victoria, with the Library's permission.


Harvesting the wheat with a Sunshine harvester and horse team. This innovative piece of farm equipment was manufactured in the McKay foundry at Sunshine in Melbourne's west -- indeed the suburb was named for the machine. The photograph was contributed to the project by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West


A family group in front of the Austral Grain and Produce sheds in the early twentieth century. This photograph was contributed to the project by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.


A 'smoko' or lunch beak during what looks like hay making. This photograph was contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.


Cutting chaff in the days of steam and horse power. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.


A dry stone wall across the grassland of the basalt plain. Photograph contributed by Parks Victoria.

[Page history: created and first published on www.ecoversity.org.au as part o f 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 modified form in July 2004 as a web archive. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.]