Recreating Public Space: Poetics in the Production of Public Space
Chief Investigator: Professor Paul Carter
Funded by: ARC Discovery Project grant 2006–2008
Community health and environmental sustainability are two national goals; this project proposes that they are interlinked. It will focus on the neglected cultural heritage of local communities and investigate a graphic technique for translating these collective traces and associations into the design of the place. Developing a creative research model, the project will 'act locally but think globally'. Showing that the well-being which springs from poetic repossession of the place through its stories provides the collective motivation to ensure that place's environmental sustainability, the researchers aim to demonstrate how national goals can be met through the poetic re-enchantment of particular locales.