From a landscape architectural point of view, the project set out to speak about Australian cultural conditions as vested in landscape, that is, landscape as a changing cultural artefact, not a given. Our point of departure was not to reiterate the partial truism that the land makes the people, but to turn around and consider that the people now make the land. The landscape design also eschews traditional landscape symbolism and materials. Similarly, this work is concerned with the cultural construction of landscape, not a particular mimesis of `nature'.

the map provides a continuous groundsheet, and is derived from two main maps: a standard English language map and Horton's map of tribal boundaries of indigenous Australia. The map folds and rises like a sand dune or ridge to form a tunnel.

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