National Prize Jury
Jury comment
The projects in this year’s Landscape Student Prize include a framework for development in fire-prone landscapes that balances ecological sensitivity with bushfire safety; a model for a campus precinct that aims to improve food security and climate resilience; and a project that explores the reconstruction of opal mining landscapes through a critical examination of resource extraction, social memory and colonialism.
From within this pool, the jury is pleased to announce joint winners of the Landscape Student Prize this year: Birth from the scar by Haoyang Wang of University of Melbourne and Grassland Tales: braiding care, culture and maintenance by Chloe Walsh of University of Technology Sydney.
engages important concepts of rehabilitation and regeneration of mining sites as Australia transitions towards a clean energy economy. The proposal melds highly technical and strategic thinking with detailed groundlevel and material explorations of the experiences these transformed sites could provide. Clear, precise drawings unpack the evolving relationship and dynamics is an elegant and well-executed project that engages the strategic, performative and aesthetic aspects of design practice to develop a compelling vision for the transformation of former mining sites into productive new ecological and community spaces.
