Overview

Digital Everyday Storytelling Platform Prototype Induction

Featured Three Key Case Study Sites:

These sites exemplify community-led restoration, ongoing ecological challenges, and opportunities for future transformation. By contributing your knowledge, stories, and insights, you can help build a more comprehensive understanding of these vital landscapes.

How You Can Participate:
[Option ONE] (Further induction and guideline)

You can actively contribute to the documentation of these URPQL sites by sharing personal stories, observations, and reflections. Your submissions—whether text, photos, audio, or video—will appear on the interactive map, connected to specific locations. This allows others to explore the cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of these landscapes through a collective lens.

[Option TWO] (Further induction and guideline)

Contribute to a Subjective Atlas for URPQL sites , inspired by the approach developed by Subjective Editions. Using creative methods like drawings, collages, and narratives, participants map personal connections to these landscapes, showcasing lived experiences and diverse perspectives.

Acknowledging the foundational work of Subjective Editions, this project embraces their philosophy of engagement, unofficial vs. official heritage, everydayness while celebrating everyday heritage—the personal stories, memories, and interactions that shape our shared histories. Your contributions will help reimagine these scarred landscapes, fostering collaboration, sensitivity, and social impact while serving as both a visual archive and a tool for reflection and regeneration.

All contributions will be integrated into

  1. Location-based Gallery - for exhibiting all user contributions and form an overall understanding of the case study sites

  2. Location-based detailed timeline - to understand the evolution and transformation of Land uses through time

  3. Subjective Atlas of each URPQL sites (Further induction and guideline) - to further zoom into cultural landscape of case study sites

    unveiling often-unseen aspects of these landscapes from the past and present, while co-imagining their future.

As this platform is a prototype, we welcome your feedback to enhance its functionality. Your participation is essential in shaping a tool that helps envision resilient and adaptive futures for URPQL landscapes. Let’s work together to bring these stories to light and reimagine the possibilities for these environments.

Participants' involvement would include one or more of the following activities:

  • Participation in a creative interview using collage as a visual method. You will be provided with materials gathered from one of the case study sites (CERES, Darebin Parklands, or Wollert Landfill). You will be invited to select materials that resonate with you in response to a guiding question and create a visual representation of your lived experience or vision for the site's future. Follow-up questions may be asked to explore your choices and the themes in your collage. The interview will be video-recorded, and photos will be taken to document your visual contributions.

  • Detail TBC

  • Engage with a digital platform prototype dedicated to scarred landscapes in the Merri and Darebin Watersheds. The platform consists of two sections: one for viewing and learning, and another for sharing and creating. Participation involves exploring narratives on the website, followed by a brief 5-10 minute Qualtrics survey to share materials such as memories, stories, experiences, photos, or sketches related to the chosen case study site. You may also choose to spend additional time creating and uploading content.

About Remuneration

All materials and refreshments are provided as remuneration.

How to Sign up?

You can sign up through contacting yuqian.lin1@student.unimelb.edu.au or through call for participation booking page.

Moderation Guidelines

All posts to the platform are reviewed by one researcher before being made publicly visible. This moderation process ensures that the platform remains a safe and inclusive space for all participants. The following types of content will not be approved:

  • Hate Speech:
    Posts that demean or threaten individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, citizenship, ability, sexuality, gender, or class will not be permitted.

  • Spam or Advertisements:
    Posts containing spam or promotional content of any kind will not be approved.

This moderation is intended to safeguard participants and the integrity of the platform, not to restrict genuine expressions or identities.

We strive to review and publish posts promptly and appreciate your patience.

If you would like to have something you posted removed or if you come across content that you believe does not belong on the platform, please reach out to us at yuqian.lin1@student.unimelb.edu.au.