2012 AILA National Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence: Planning
The River and Waterway Strategy.
The chain of lakes and ponds on The Living Classroom.
Site for the Living Classroom in Bingara’s town common.
The Living Classroom masterplan.
The Centre for Regenerative Agriculture will feature interpretive structures and gardens focused on a paddock to plate philosophy.
Bingara and the Living Classroom by John Mongard Landscape Architects
Client: Gwydir Shire Council
Partners: Gwydir Shire Council, Vision 2020
Jury comment
This project engaged the local community to develop strategies to future-proof its town, in a way that could be built by local people for very little cost. A slow evolution of ideas over a five year timeframe played a strong role in educating the community about the future potential for Bingara.
This is a worthy example of the role that landscape architects will increasingly need to play in helping regional Australian towns survive the multiple threats of sea change, ageing, brain drain and climate change that threaten to make Australian country towns a thing of the past.
