Indigenous and local knowledge visualisation

Projection Augmented Landscape Models have been applied to the visualisation of traditional mapped knowledge for a range of land management sectors, including fire management, horticultural development and mine closure.

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Recent projects have included the development of landscape for Ali-Curung and Mataranka in the Northern Territory for Centre Farm indigenous horticultural development organisation. The purpose of the landscapes are to display cultural knowledge collected through a larger Centre Farm project with Kim Mahood. The work with Kim involved indigenous traditional owners painting canvases with cultural knowledge, which was then incorporated into a digital map interface for projection.

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Other work has included the development of a digital multimedia interface for a projection model of the Ranger mine rehabilitation landscape. This will be populated with video and photo content from the Mirrar traditional owners documenting their experience of the rehabilitation process.

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Previous international applications have included supporting traditional agricultural knowledge in Mexico and local hunting knowledge in Cameroon.

 

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Current projects include partnerships with; Kuku Yalangi Aboriginal crop and Queensland N.P.Parks supporting the development of the new $4.84 million Eastern Kuku Yalanjiwarra Culture, CSIRO/NAILSMA communicating the results of their feral monitoring program with Mimal, APN and Normanby indigenous land managers.