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‘Places of unrest’: social value, historic value, and urban change in Ballarat
David McGinniss
Federation University Australia
Australia ICOMOS, Melbourne
18 October 2014
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
‘Monumental’Monuments and statues
‘Residential’Prestige
Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
‘Leisure’Lake and gardens
Valuable?
(Re-)emerging?
Fading?
Vanished?
Colonialism‘home recreated / recalled’
‘Monumental’Monuments and statues
‘Residential’Prestige
Colonialism‘Wendouree’ / ‘go away’
Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
‘Leisure’Lake and gardens
Visible / audible Invisible / inaudible
Colonialism‘home recreated / recalled’
Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
Visible / audible Invisible / inaudible
‘Residential’Prestige
‘Monumental’Monuments and statues
‘Leisure’Lake and gardens
‘Monumental’Monuments and statues
Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
Visible / audible Invisible / inaudible
‘Residential’Prestige
‘Leisure’Lake and gardens
Colonialism‘home recreated / recalled’
‘Monumental’Monuments and statues
Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
Visible / audible Invisible / inaudible
‘Leisure’Lake and gardens
‘Residential’Prestige
Colonialism‘home recreated / recalled’
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
‘Wendouree’ -‘Go away’