Interpretation Strategy & signage
After the visitor facilities and natural landscape were reduced to ash during the Black Saturday 2009 bushfires, an interpretation plan was commissioned to nurture a new connection between people and place.
The story curation worked in three parts. 1) The big feature explored water, reservoir heritage and the significance of the place to people and wildlife, past and present. Numbers about water depth, reservoir capacity, aqueduct lengths, stone sizes etc became the inspiration for the interpretive elements. The strategy was to place giant numbers on the (unattractive) reservoir retaining wall that would draw attention to related storylines.
2) CHI also pitched the concept of a ‘yarning’ circle. Conversation circles exist all over the world and parks are places for storytelling.
3) A trail that encouraged contemplation about our relationship with water.
CHI role: Creative ideas, interpretation planning and copy. Hard-design by Arterial Design.
