The Beacon
WANGARATTA - AUSTRALIA
Sitting around the campfire
and telling stories is a fast disappearing part of our culture.
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The Beacon is part of a civic public art revitalisation and city centre redesign at the Wangaratta Railway Precinct in Victoria, Australia. Thinkcraft led the design, direction and execution of the permanent installation which is a hybrid of physical mural, interactive lighting technology and interactive onsite app. The Wangaratta Railway Precinct is a gateway to the Victorian high country and the region is home to unique indigenous flora, fauna, and iconic waterways. These elements feature regularly in Bpangerang, and Australian First Nations stories, and we wanted to tell the story of particularly endangered flora and fauna in an interactive manner.
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Working with a local ecologist, Thinkcraft identified fauna they felt were pertinent and crucial to the surrounding ecology, creating lighting setting stories for children and adults alike to experience at night. The Beacon reminds visitors in an era of ‘immediate connection’ that we are all part of an interconnected ecosystem, a “Dirrawarra-ness” that speaks to our universal connection to our surroundings and each other.
