{"id":2016,"date":"2014-09-12T21:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2014-09-12T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T13:43:30","slug":"reimagining-perths-lost-wetlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Reimagining Perth&#8217;s Lost Wetlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Have you ever wondered what Perth was like before it was a city? A new exhibition at the Perth Town Hall is set to tell the tale of Perth\u2019s swampy past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Reimagining Perth\u2019s Lost Wetlands<\/em>\u00a0is a joint project between Edith Cowan University (ECU), City of Perth, and Landgate, which aims to raise awareness of the cultural and environmental importance of Perth\u2019s wetlands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Some of the city\u2019s most iconic buildings, including the Perth Railway Station, have been built over swamps that previously stretched from Lake Monger to Claise Brook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The exhibition features three-dimensional digital modelling of Perth\u2019s lost wetlands prior to 1827 in the Claise Brook catchment from Herdsman Lake to the Swan River.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2019\" src=\"http:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Perths-wetlands-1827-image-courtesy-of-Dimitri-Fotev-City-of-Perth.jpg\" alt=\"Perths-wetlands-1827-image-courtesy-of-Dimitri-Fotev-City-of-Perth\" width=\"347\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Perths-wetlands-1827-image-courtesy-of-Dimitri-Fotev-City-of-Perth.jpg 347w, https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Perths-wetlands-1827-image-courtesy-of-Dimitri-Fotev-City-of-Perth-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/>School of Communications and Arts Associate Professor Rod Giblett said the three-dimensional models on display are based on Nyoongar history, archival maps, geological soil mapping, vegetation complex mapping, artistic impressions and botanists\u2019 early settler accounts of flora.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cLike many other cities around the world, Perth was founded on wetlands. These environments have played a significant role in the city\u2019s development and are important for a range of species,\u201d Professor Giblett said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThis exhibition provides a valuable setting to showcase the rich cultural history and environmental significance of these areas to the wider community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Reimagining Perth\u2019s Lost Wetlands<\/em>\u00a0opens at 3.00pm on Sunday, 21 September at the Perth Town Hall, corner of Hay and Barrack Street, Perth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The exhibition runs from Sunday 21, September until Thursday, 9 October 2014 and entry is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what Perth was like before it was a city? A new exhibition at the Perth Town Hall is set to tell the tale of Perth\u2019s swampy past. Reimagining Perth\u2019s Lost Wetlands\u00a0is a joint project between Edith Cowan University (ECU), City of Perth, and Landgate, which aims to raise awareness of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsoflakeclaremont.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}