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Page 1: ICOMOS Intangible Heritage Symposium October 2014. David McGinniss Lake Wendouree

‘Places of unrest’: social value, historic value, and urban change in Ballarat

David McGinniss

Federation University Australia

Australia ICOMOS, Melbourne

18 October 2014

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Social value Historic value of landscapes

Contemporary Cultural mapping& Historical research

Three place studies in Ballarat

using methodologies of…

Better understanding of …

• Lake Wendouree

• Ballarat East

• Central Ballarat

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Lake Wendouree, Ballarat

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‘Monumental’Monuments and statues

‘Residential’Prestige

Lake Wendouree, Ballarat

‘Leisure’Lake and gardens

Valuable?

(Re-)emerging?

Fading?

Vanished?

Colonialism‘home recreated / recalled’

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‘Monumental’Monuments and statues

‘Residential’Prestige

Colonialism‘Wendouree’ / ‘go away’

Lake Wendouree, Ballarat

‘Leisure’Lake and gardens

Visible / audible Invisible / inaudible

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Colonialism‘home recreated / recalled’

Lake Wendouree, Ballarat

Visible / audible Invisible / inaudible

‘Residential’Prestige

‘Monumental’Monuments and statues

‘Leisure’Lake and gardens

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‘Monumental’Monuments and statues

Lake Wendouree, Ballarat

Visible / audible Invisible / inaudible

‘Residential’Prestige

‘Leisure’Lake and gardens

Colonialism‘home recreated / recalled’

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‘Monumental’Monuments and statues

Lake Wendouree, Ballarat

Visible / audible Invisible / inaudible

‘Leisure’Lake and gardens

‘Residential’Prestige

Colonialism‘home recreated / recalled’

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Causal Layered Analysisof place

Official unquestioned view of reality

Systemic causes and explanations (social, technological, historical, environmental, political economic)

Deeper social and cultural processes. Language used to depict perspective.

Unconscious emotive dimensions.Stories and symbols.

Adapted from Sohail Inayatullah, 2004, Causal Layered Analysis Reader

‘It’s a lake’

Water source (then) /water destination (now)

Economic value: mining / tourism-leisure

‘Go away’ / Colonial dispossession / environmental

vulnerability

Litany

Social Structural

Worldview

Myth / Metaphor

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‘Wendouree’ -‘Go away’


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