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2012 CONFERENCE PAPERS BALLARAT Australian Garden History Society Inc Gate Lodge 100 Birdwood Avenue Melbourne, VIC, 3004 Content Section Page 1 John Dwyer, AGHS Chairman 1 2 Stephen Carey, University of Ballarat 6 3 Professor Weston Bate, Foundation Chair of Australian Studies, Deakin University 14 4 Paul Fox, Historian and Author 17 5 John Patrick, Landscape Architect, Heritage Consultant, Author and Lecturer 22 6 Michael Taffe, Historian and Author 29 7 Richard Barley, CEO, Open Gardens Australia 34 8 Timothy Hubbard, Heritage Architect & Planner, and Annabel Neylon, Horticulturalist & Heritage Consultant 35 9 Ursula de Jong, Senior Lecturer Deakin University. Member of the Heritage Council of Victoria 44 10 Harriet Edquist, Professor of architectural history and Director of RMIT Design Archives Christine Reid, Author 51 11 Robin Ferry- Narmbool 54 12 Celia Burnham - Mt. Boninyong 56 INSERT NEW DOCUMENT TITLE John1 ____ Dwyer, John Dwyer,AGHS Chairman AGHS Chairman A brief summation of the challenges for the AGHS implicit in the theme "Gardens are the intersection 1 between the natural and cultural worlds”. Our first challenge is to understand the theme, because it uses one of the most ambiguous and emotionally charged words in the English language, natural. When we seek to locate the intersection of the natural and the cultural worlds we find that the task is by no means straightforward, not least because the idea of the natural is itself a cultural construct; as Simon Scharma put it ‘although we are accustomed to separate nature and human perception into two realms …landscape is the work of the mind.’1 A distinction has sometimes been drawn between natural landscapes (landscapes unaffected by human activity) and cultural landscapes (human modified or managed landscapes), but it may be doubted whether in fact any natural landscapes in this sense exist.
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