... 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 accompanying story Urbanising the plain.]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DRAFT TEXT ONLY - TO BE CHECKED BY CONTRIBUTORS

The following images were used in this digital composite about the urbanisation/suburbanisation of the basalt plain.


This purpose-drawn graphic by project director Merrill Findlay is based on landuse maps of Geelong and the western region of Melbourne.


Teenagers in West Sunshine, photographed by Carmen Stewart, and contributed to the project by her.


Two children in the care of the Salvation Army in Sunshine with a young friend from St Albans catching freshwater crayfish or 'yabbies' in Pipemakers Park near the Maribyrnong River, photographed by Carmen Stewart.


Flats in Melbourne's West photographed by Merrill Findlay.


'Mediterranean baroque' house in Melbourne's West photographed by Merrill Findlay.


Workers cottages now subject to the process of gentrification in Williamstown, photographed by Merrill Findlay.


Public housing in Melbourne's West photographed by Merrill Findlay.


Weatherboard cottage in Melbourne's West photographed by Merrill Findlay.


Urban consolidation within the municipality of Maribyrnong, photographed by Merrill Findlay.


Nineteenth century house in Williamstown made out of local bluestone, photographed by Merrill Findlay.


The derelict Massey Ferguson building at Sunshine, photographed by Carmen Stewart. This building is on the site of the McKay factory where the Sunshine Harvester was manufactured. Sunshine was named after this famous machine.

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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
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Archive page from 1996/97. Republished in a slightly modified form on www.ecoversity.org.au in July 2004. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.