Otherwise Unrecounted 2017 Summary
This digital map offers an overview of the series of accounts of, and reflections on, the happenings of the Bunurong Coast that would otherwise pass unrecorded and untold.
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Category: Sketch #1: Digital map narratives
A collection of interactive digital maps combining traditional archival material with digital photographs and text. These pieces respond to specific locales and historical occurrences within the Bunurong Coast.
Reminiscing on the family weekender
This interactive historical map ‘Reminiscing on the family weekender’ offers a snapshot of the intricacies, complexities, reassurances, and discomforts that accompany my affinity for my family’s property ‘Wreck Beach Farm’ and its surrounds. It tries to understand and articulate the loss I felt when the property was sold and also comprehend the nostalgia I still hold for that place.
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Tagged as data, leased as real estate
This interactive digital map interrogates the contested and highly lucrative space on which tech corporations jostle for our data. But what do our digital footfalls look like? It asks what do we give up by handing over our location information?
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The Artisan Wreck
This interactive historical map narrative tells the story of the 1901 wreck of the Artisan – a three-masted 1,155 ton wooden barque – at Wreck Beach.
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Following Ranee
This interactive story map documents a walk made by eight interested writers to retrace the lonely 1883 night walk made by Melbourne’s first elephant, Ranee, from the Port Melbourne police station to the Royal Melbourne Zoo in Parkville.
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Walking from Harmers Haven to Wonthaggi
An interactive map outlining the coastal trail walk from Harmers Haven to Wonthaggi undertaken on 6 June 2017.
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