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    Transforming identity: Garden of Australian Dreams

    Feb 03, 2020 4 minutes
    Text Anna Chauvel

    esigned in the late 1990s by Room 4.1.3 (a research and design studio led by Richard Weller and Vladimir Sitta), the Garden of Australian Dreams (GOAD) challenged landscape architectural practice. It looked towards European postmodern influences (openly referencing the visually dynamic designs of architect Daniel Libeskind) and explored the emerging Australian postcolonial identity by asking “who are we today?” The design process experimented with emerging technology and designing in three dimensions. As Richard Weller would often say, the young students assisting him were “jet fighter pilots” in the way they worked the computer programs, pushing boundaries in graphic representation and

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