032 Assessment 1 - Interim Exhibition

Project 01 (Week 01-06): Where Is The Place?: Vision and Strategy Panels & Statement 

Location: QUT J212

Time: 1pm to 5pm

Mobile 2 Group 1

Lara Tanswell, Alice Hung, Nur Farhana Mohamed Nordin

  

  

LOSS OF IDENTITY AND POPULATION DENSITY

Rural Australia has helped form Australia’s identity on an international scale. However,  with a smaller population in rural regions, they are often overlooked when national infrastructures are built, creating a lack of support in isolated communities. This jeopardizes the longevity of Australia’s outback and diverse lifestyles as some of the areas are not self-contained and are unable to satisfy their everyday needs. Thus, recognition and representation are the two main factors fuelling the current conflict between parliament and the population of rural Australia. 

We must ask, is this the future of Australia as a nation? 

The nation must embrace the changing conditions and what it means to be mobile through non-permanent structures, limited-time events, and a range of inhabitation patterns.

OUR VISION: Infrastructure of activity, place, form and image

Our vision builds upon strengthening existing systems for an agent that aims to empower isolated communities. The way in which we inhabit space is becoming less static and fixed, but more fluid and nomadic instead. These trends have created a politically volatile situations in rural regions, thus, there is a need to provide access to essential services. This is a challenge recognised in the future direction of Australia’s rural identity and economy infrastructure. The existing centralised formats of Parliamentary services are inefficient in responding to these challenges. 

Thus, a non-centralised method of engaging the rural regions  with metropolitan Australia to ensure the relevance of rural Australia continues to be recognised by the parliament.

EDUCATION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE AS AN AGENT OF AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL

Australia is a young nation with diverse subcultures caused by immense distances between populated areas. Our vision, represented in Panel 3, embraces this social condition by developing a mobile space aimed at engaging people of various backgrounds while creating relevant links between government and rural Australia. This entity will be the Agent of Australian Capital which will steward for isolated communities, assuming three main roles: 

1) Facilitate the mobility of education and exhibition services; 

2) Provide a platform for collaboration in isolated areas; and 

3) Encourage a social and behavioural shift.

The Agent represents the links to Parliament as it represents a nationwide program. 

A platform must be created for regional groups to collaborate and provide opportunities to share and strengthen local identities. The proposed mobile entity represents this collaboration and provides an avenue for Politicians to greater understand the identity of rural communities with the potential of instigating secondary functions.

Instead of implementing transportable services, this entity is speculated to allow for the identity and reputation of rural Australia to be organically nurtured. This strategy aims to increase diversity and vitality by creating new local and regional national traditions, subsequently enhancing wider connections though experience and contact with the program.

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