This would've been good even if it just made me reflect on our relationship with water. The particular focus is on waterways and their management (or stewardship) in Australia and India, with a healthy proportion given over to customary - in Australia, meaning indigenous - practices and knowledge.
My favourites, not unusually for this kind of exhibition, were some of the photographs: Victoria Lautman's evocative Indian stone stepwells, many (all?) in Rajasthan; Clare Arni's b&w photos taken "In the islands of the Sundarbans, lost in the vast muddy estuary of the Ganga", which caused me to have a serious moment of reflection about transience and beauty in there at lunchtime today; and Cop Shiva's documenting of Indian water tanks as decorated by locals ("water tanks are recognised as symbols of cohesion and acceptance by the civic body; once a tank is provided to a slum area, the wellbeing of residents is seen to be acknowledged"). Turns out they're all of India, so possibly my tastes are skewing a bit according to the subjects.
Also fun: the "Augmented Reality Sandbox", a literal sandbox in which you can shape the sand and create 'clouds' by hovering your hands over the landscape, and it craftily updates with coloured contour lines and simulated rain. Yes, I drew my initials in it because evidently I would be a terrible planet-maker (not pictured).
My favourites, not unusually for this kind of exhibition, were some of the photographs: Victoria Lautman's evocative Indian stone stepwells, many (all?) in Rajasthan; Clare Arni's b&w photos taken "In the islands of the Sundarbans, lost in the vast muddy estuary of the Ganga", which caused me to have a serious moment of reflection about transience and beauty in there at lunchtime today; and Cop Shiva's documenting of Indian water tanks as decorated by locals ("water tanks are recognised as symbols of cohesion and acceptance by the civic body; once a tank is provided to a slum area, the wellbeing of residents is seen to be acknowledged"). Turns out they're all of India, so possibly my tastes are skewing a bit according to the subjects.
Also fun: the "Augmented Reality Sandbox", a literal sandbox in which you can shape the sand and create 'clouds' by hovering your hands over the landscape, and it craftily updates with coloured contour lines and simulated rain. Yes, I drew my initials in it because evidently I would be a terrible planet-maker (not pictured).
