Kimberley LNG Precinct Strategic Assessment: Ethnobiological Report, James Prices Point by UDLA
Client: Kimberley Land Council
Jury comment
This project goes beyond the norm by using the owners to interpret their own land instead of the consultant interpreting that landscape. The landscape architects’ role was significant in this process, in this collaborative partnership that has been established for truly consultative design to occur. The report notes “the interrelated impacts that occur when a physical or biological component(s) of the land’s ecology is disturbed causing cumulative effects with regard to changes in ethnobiological practice”.
The report utilises Goolarabooloo and Jabirr Jabirr traditional knowledge of plants, animals and ecological systems to form management recommendations that function at both a political and cultural level, to provide sustainable solutions to the potential impacts of the LNG precinct at James Price Point.
The outcome is a document that clearly and unequivocally values all elements of the site. Many of these values are only known by the traditional owners themselves. This document greatly facilitates the exchange of these values to achieve a rich design response.
