Heritage Coexistence

Questions of heritage can be fraught. This event takes a wide-ranging, laser-mapped view, led by Belgrade-born architect, researcher and curator Milica Božić. It begins with a talk focusing on the intertwined First Nations, colonial, and natural heritage embedded in Queen Victoria Gardens. The discussion will feature heritage experts from different backgrounds, bringing together Western and Indigenous architectural and cultural perspectives – allowing alternate forms of heritage to emerge. The conversation will then expand to a city scale, and audiences are encouraged to ask questions and contribute to help push ideas into new territory.

Then as the sun sets, the internal geometries of the pavilion will become a canvas for Božić’s immersive light installation. It’s a work that creatively adapts the same light detection and ranging technology (LIDAR) used in geological mapping to trace the familiar details of the pavilion and project them back in strange new ways.