Films

The Journey of Extraordinary Encounters

You are invited to enter the world of nature’s design principles, following an interactive trail to uncover biophilic design in Geelong city and experience what nature can teach us about how to live better in the urban environment.

This project was created as part of Geelong Design Week 2021, an initiative of Geelong UNESCO City of Design and the City of Greater Geelong. Created by the School of Lost Arts in conjunction with technical partners OneMap and production partners, Circ Consulting.

“Now You See Us”

We live in the global era of the Anthropocene, where in this ‘age of man’ our species is having an overwhelming influence on our planet and its wildlife. These paper taxidermy sculptures are just some examples of the 84 species of threatened birds whose habitat is the City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

The School of Lost Arts’ Director, Dr. Mary-Jane Walker, together with fellow artists Jen Tostevin and Rob Cutler, started this project to highlight the scale of the current global threat to our local wildlife and what we can do about it. The focus of the project is a positive one; it offers a call to action. It is about making you think how you can support this vital issue through your own research and conservation efforts. It also highlights the activities the National Wool Museum, City of Greater Geelong and other local authorities are doing in the conservation of native bird habitats (for example, revegetation of the Barwon River with native species).

Geelong Nature Festival 2023 Art Project and Installation

The Geelong Nature Festival created a community journey of events over the six different landscapes across Wadawurrung Country during six weeks. To represent a final gathering together of humans and nature, the Festival concluded with the creation of a unique large-scale art installation on the sand of the 21st Century Garden in the Geelong Botanic Gardens.