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W.Edge ... between a rock and a hard place Greetings from the western edge. The discourse continues amongst those into Landscape Architecture. The next in the series of national student-run symposiums is scheduled for the spring of 1997, September 23-27. The rites of passage will be thus: 1. A luggage swap which downloads that cultural baggage we call the 'Tradition of Landscape Architecture', and picks up a suitcase, empty (all but for a favourite slide) into which will be packed the mementos of W.Edge 2. A journey across land and sea. 3. Installation into our meeting ground... Rottnest Island, 32oEW 115.5oNS ... a site of shipwreck, military fortification, aboriginal incarceration and burial, scientific research, artistic retreat and intensive leisure. W.Edge will traverse the perspectives and insights of individuals inhabiting the periphery of our discipline, those whose involvement is integral but not necessarily credited. We see that an inspection of these must bring us closer to a broader vision of 'the all-inclusive field', and to meaningful response to 'site'. Our objectives are; open minds, dirty hands and loose tongues and our format is being artfully engineered to service these. We believe that the fabric into which we weave our process and findings needs to be raw and unique, like the landscape in which we work. To this end, W.Edge is not a 'conference', and our series of events include the convivial occasions of popular culture, translated and redesigned to uncover knowledge and stimulate debate. W.Edge is an organic entity, and we encourage all to partake in its evolution. Feedback and submissions of work for inclusion in the event will be received with open minds. Lisa Cowan, for the conveners of W.Edge 1997. Back to 'Painting the future real'
[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 its original form in July 2004 as a web archive. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.]
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