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Ngarara Place
RMIT's award-winning “Ngarara Place” is a unique Indigenous landscape and urban design space in the heart of our City campus.
NGARARA PLACE TRANSCRIPT
AUDIO: Ambient music plays
VISUAL: RMIT Campus - trees in soft focus with the city in the background
TITLE: Ngarara Place - A unique Indigenous landscape and urban design space in the heart of our City campus.
VISUAL: Trees in the garden moving in the wind.
TITLE: Designed by Greenaway Architects, Ngarara Place’s design draws on four key pillars: Connection to country, cultural motifs, contemporary Aboriginal art and knowledge exchange.
VISUAL: Pan of garden to green and black artwork on the glass façade of a building.
VISUAL: Tilt down to Alumnni Courtyard steps showing Indigenous artwork stencil in wide and then close up.
TITLE:Created,designed and built by a mainly Indigenous team,this unique space includes:
VISUAL: Pan of the wooden seating in the garden.
TITLE: Amphitheatre style seating
VISUAL: Pan from steps to artwork on glass building façade.
TITLE:striking, contemporary and specifically curated pieceof artwork by Aboriginal digital artist Aroha Groves
VISUAL: Focus shift between native plants in the garden.
TITLE: Landscape design focusing on the narrative of the Seven Season of the Kulin Nations.
VISUAL: Wide shot of the garden showing pathways into the centre of the garden and the smoke pit.
TITLE: and a sculptural laser-cut smoke pit.
TITLE: A visible presence and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, cultures and histories as connected among the lands of the Kulin Nations on which RMIT stands.
VISUAL: RMIT logo.
AUDIO: Music fades out
END OF TRANSCRIPT
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