Fourth-year landscape architecture students at RMIT University recently undertook a road trip as part of their graduating design studio, called Dispersal.
The group began in Melbourne and travelled through three states in three days.
Lake Mungo National Park was the first overnight stop, then on to Burra in South Australia and up to Oratunga, a sheep station just north of the Flinders Ranges. The group then took the Stuart Highway to Alice Springs.
"Dispersal was an amazing journey - an exploration through parts of the country that are untouched and far from the everyday experience," says Reg Holloway, a student who took part in the event.
The road trip through the Dispersal studio studied the relationships between infrastructure and settlement patterns as way of deconstructing landscapes in remote Australian regions.
"It was an amazing opportunity to see things and places in Australia that I probably wouldn’t have visited if it wasn’t for the field trip. There are some incredible landscapes in our own backyard," says student Adam Cox.
Ideas, data and recordings from this trip will inform the students’ final design thesis.
Their projects will be examined and exhibited later in the year in preparation for a career in practice.
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