Interactive
graphic of Port Phillip Bay by Rebecca Kaye and Csaba Szamosy for
Imagine The Future Inc. Copyright 1996.
The Painting
the future real bioregion covers the
basalt plain between the mouth of the Yarra river and the Bellarine
Peninsula in south-eastern Victoria, Australia.
The whole bioregion is
within the territory of the indigenous Kulin
nation, but is now home to people
from many different cultural backgrounds. It is divided into the municipalities
of Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melton, Wyndham, the City of
Greater Geelong, and the City of Melbourne.
The bioregion includes
the waters of Port Phillip Bay;
the catchment areas of the Yarra, Maribyrnong, Werribee, Little and
Barwon rivers; many streams
including Kororoit Creek; many threatened
natural ecosystems, including grasslands
and internationally significant coastal
wetlands; fertile agricultural
and horticultural land;
and many present-day social challenges, including very high levels
of unemployment, inequitable distribution
of opportunities and resources, and some very unsustainable industrial
and urban development.
For the purposes of this
project, the project area also covers the rest of the state of Victoria,
the rest of Australia and the rest of the world
-- because nature knows no boundaries and nor do the processes of
globalisation.
But what could this bioregion
look like in the future?
To explore further, please
click on the hot spots on the map. If you can't wait for the map to
download, click on the communities listed below.
1. Melbourne's Docklands
2. Footscray, Yarraville, Maidstone, Braybrook,
Maribyrnong and surrounding communities
3. Altona, Williamstown, Spotswood and surrounding
communities
4. St Albans, Sunshine and surrounding
communities
5. Truganina and surrounding communities
6. Laverton and surrounding communities
7. Point Cook and surrounding communities
8. Werribee and surrounding communities
9. Melton and surrounding communities
10. Bacchus Marsh
11. Little River and surrounding communities
12. You Yangs and surrounds
13. Point Wilson and surrounds
14. Point Lillias and surrounds
15. Geelong and surrounding communities
16. Port Arlington and surrounding communities
17. Black Rock and surrounds
18. Ocean Grove, Barwon Heads and surrounding communities
19. Queenscliff and surrounding communities
20. Lake Connewarre and surrounds
21. Port Phillip Bay
This site is still under construction. New material
will be added to it progressively throughout 1996/97. For more information,
email project director Merrill Findlay at merrillf@dingo.vut.edu.au;
or telephone the project office at Imagine The Future Inc on +61 3
9417 2033 or Fax +61 3 9416 0767; or snailmail to 340 Gore Street,
Fitzroy, 3065, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. WWW: http://www.ecoversity.org.au
(1996)
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[Page
history: created and first published by Imagine
The Future Inc 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 its original form in July 2004 as a web archive. For more information
contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.]
