Puzzling over landscape resilience - NSW
Imogen Semmler (top left) and participants trial ‘The Grazing Game’.
In August 2022, the Mulloon Institute’s Laura Fisher co-hosted a ‘Solving the Puzzle of Landscape Resilience' workshop in the mellow sunshine of Capertee Valley NSW.
Joining her were Imogen Semmler, Dr Judi Earl, David Hardwick and Gary McGuigan. The workshop reflected their shared interest in how games and other creative tools can help peel back the layers of the landscape, and approach stewardship and decision-making in new ways.
Above: Participants explored grazing management, whole-of-landscape thinking and water movements with role-play, games, puzzles and a silt-based stream table.
Forty participants, including TMI’s CEO Carolyn Hall, gathered at ‘From the Paddock’ in Glen Alice which is a magnificent outdoor venue owned by farmers Terrie Wallace and Stuart Knox. It was a terrific hands-on day with much conversation and laughter.
Highlights of the day included ‘The Grazing Game’ which was co-created by Imogen Semmler and Judi Earl, and a moving presentation by artist Georgie Pollard on her Capertee Valley map artwork. You can read more about Georgie Pollard's artwork here.
This workshop was a collaboration between Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation, Mulloon Institute, Capertee Valley Landcare and Maldhan Ngurr Ngurra Lithgow Transformation Hub. It forms part of the ‘Regenerating Lithgow – People, Place and Planet’ project under the Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants Program, and the Citizen Science project ‘Modelling Landscape Rehydration for Catchments, Communities and Curriculum’, both of which are funded by the Australian Government.
[Photos: Gus Armstrong]
Artist Georgie Pollard with her collaged artwork, ‘Map of the Capertee Valley’.