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Kathryn Miller
Grasslands Project: Native Australian Bunch Grasses, 1995

Kathryn Miller   Grasslands Project: Preparing the site under the freeway, Melbourne, Australia, 1995
Kathryn Miller   Grasslands Project: site preparation, 1995
Kathryn Miller   Grasslands Project: Native Australian Grasses, 1995
Kathryn Miller

The Grasslands Project

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia 1995-1998
(collaboration by Kathryn Miller and Australian writer/historian Michael Cathcart)

My project was to transform this site under a freeway in downtown Melbourne from a neglected pocket of land to a more sustainable and aesthetic place. My collaborator's job was to research the history of the site and to help re-define its future. After cleaning it up, it was planted with 6,000 plugs of native grasses. The grasses provided both a seed bank for future city plantings and as a visual break from the usual concrete and asphalt urban infrastructure.

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