Dickson Living Rooms Cultural Map · research
Year: 2020 · Visit: Dickson Living Rooms
Dickson Living Rooms is a physical and digital heritage project that seeks to expose the lived-experiences of Dickson residents through the decades: 1960s-2020s.
The project consists of a temporary pavilion that will host formal and informal events and an interactive online cultural map that features custom imagery that afford novel search paths to fascinating archival information (news, real estate and interest stories) sourced from the National Library of Australia’s digitised collection of The Canberra Times (available on Trove).
Dickson Living Rooms is a project delivered by the Design Lab at the University of Canberra.
Supported by the ACT Government under the City Renewal Authority’s Dickson Grants program.
Cultural Map
An interactive web-based cultural map of Dickson. The map draws together artistic imagery developed specifically for the project that captures domestic life in the inner north suburbs through the decades 1960-2020. The images span multiple topics: domestic technologies; furnishings and decor, local institutions, as well as significant local cultural and news events.
Selected elements within the images serve as search paths to archival information (news, real estate and interest stories) sourced from the National Library of Australia’s digitised collection of The Canberra Times, held within Trove. The result is a compelling ‘deep dive’ into the cultural history of north Canberra. We hope all Canberrans with a relationship to Dickson’s rich history will interact with the map and share their stories with the creative team.
Cultural Map built with AngularJS.
