Reconciliation Place
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Reconciliation Place is an urban landscape design in the Parliamentary Triangle Canberra, Australia, established in 2001 as a monument to reconciliation between Australia’s Indigenous people and settler population.
Reconciliation Place was designed by architect Simon Kringas. Sharon Payne was Indigenous Cultural Advisor.
The design is dominated by a convex mound in the landscape centred on Walter Burley Griffin's Land and Water axes. "This vantage point is a nexus from which both axes can be simultaneously – and almost ethereally – experienced". [1]
Linking the High Court and National Library is a public promenade with artworks called "Slivers" displaying images and text on various themes of reconciliation including:
- A welcome to Ngunnawal country - an acknowledgment of the traditional owners of the land on which Reconciliation Place is being built
- The 1967 referendum that amended the Australian constitution to allow the Commonwealth Government to legislate on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues
- The recognition of native title rights which found that native title to land was part of Australia's common law
- The contribution Indigenous people have made, and continue to make, to Australia in sport and in the defence of our nation
- Indigenous leadership, depicting two great leaders — Neville Bonner and Vincent Lingiari and
- The past practice of separating Indigenous children from their families.
Reconciliation Place is intended evolve over time with the addition of new artworks.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Christopher Vernon: Axial Occupation. Architecture Australia. Retrieved on 2007-06-27.
- ^ Australian reconciliation. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia). Retrieved on 2006-11-04.
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