'Strewth! That's heritage': ritual, remnant, reuse, and document in the Australian landscape

摘要

Traditional approaches to the analysis of cultural significance—and consequent implications for conservation -often inadequately acknowledge fugitive aspects of heritage, particularly in the assessment and interpretation of overlooked or unconventional designed landscapes. Our interest in fugitive or otherwise intangible heritage sites has often linked gardens, landscapes, and their constituent buildings with the processes of design, construction, use, and finally, decay. Whilst much of this heritage can be found in bricks and mortar—or plants and earth to use a gardening analogy—much intangible value comes from ritual and memory. We were sharing these thoughts recently whilst leading a reconnaissance party of nine landscape architecture students to Cohuna, a small country town in northern Victoria.