Lecture (in person and via Zoom): Mildura’s Cultural Landscape
In Heritage Practice: Exploring the Rich Patterns and Textures of Mildura’s Cultural Landscape by Dr Christina Dyson
This talk will reflect on ways of seeing and thinking about landscape in heritage practice in the context of a recent heritage study in the far north-western corner of Victoria, the Rural City of Mildura.
Mildura’s richly textured cultural landscapes have been shaped by a challenging climate and natural environment, with rich country alongside the Murray River and floodplains (or scroll landscapes) along its fringes, and vast expanses of semi-arid country. The area has been occupied for tens of thousands of years by the First People of the Millewa-Mallee. The cultural landscapes of Mildura reflect its multilayered history and patterns of development, including as an irrigation settlement established at Mildura in the 1880s and 1890s by Chaffey Brothers Limited, and at nearby Merbein and Red Cliffs in the first decades of the twentieth century. Mildura’s cultural landscapes reflect ingenuity and resilience, remoteness and hardship, and the resourcefulness of its communities.
The talk will focus on selected heritage places and landscapes across Mildura and the surrounding district that reflect defining attributes of Mildura’s cultural landscape—the river, the land, the trees and public gardens.
Time: Doors open at 5.45 pm and lecture will commence at 6.00 pm. For those joining via zoom please log on five minutes before start time.
Location: Ground Floor, Main Building, University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus. 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond. Map of Burnley Campus: look for Building A.
Joining via Zoom: A Zoom link will be provided with a reminder email on Thursday 5 November.
Note: Parking is available on Yarra Boulevard.
Cost: AGHS members $15, Non-Members $20 (for in person lecture or via zoom)
Book: at Trybooking. Please book by clicking on the Trybooking link below, so we can communicate with you if there are any changes.
Enquiries: Trevor Pitkin 0414 852 916
Dr Christina Dyson has wide experience in Australian garden, designed landscape and cultural landscape heritage, as well as urban and built heritage, at world, national, state and local levels. She has particular interest in and aptitude for the assessment and management of complex cultural landscapes.
Christina holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne (Melbourne School of Design). Her thesis investigated postwar Australian plant gardens and their connections with national identity.
At GML, Christina has worked on a diverse range of landscape and built heritage projects, including conservation management plans, heritage assessments, and heritage impact statements. She has also worked on numerous municipal heritage studies and heritage advice projects. She has appeared at VCAT and planning panels as an expert witness for planning scheme amendments related to historic plantings, gardens, parks, designed and scenic landscapes of local and state heritage significance.