Being on the Edge of a Shipwreck in Planning Decision-Making: Design as an Anchor and Future Maker

Justification of the paper This paper investigates recent attempts to Masterplan tourism planning and landscape development of the town of Port Campbell based on the concept of community-driven tourism planning. The... [ view full abstract ]

Justification of the paper
This paper investigates recent attempts to Masterplan tourism planning and landscape development of the town of Port Campbell based on the concept of community-driven tourism planning. The Masterplan process generally sought to upgrade tourism facilities and to re-plan a core part of the Great Ocean Road corridor the proposed scheme little engendered community confidence nor encouraged the use of local community public resources of the Masterplan proposed outcomes.

While analyzing broad range of aspects of the township and the national park, this design thesis attempted to identify the possible initiatives and landscape development models and also applied landscape narrative theory to focus on tourism experience making and landscape with layers of content embedded such as local history, environmental stories that would enrich the experience.

The need for this paper is to articulate an alternate and more robust approach to designing on the fragile coastal edge whilst engendering community engagement and ensuring their aspirations are addressed. It is main contribution is both offering an alternate process but also demonstrating the use of design as a vehicle to reach this outcome. The research gap addressed is to challenge a conventional planning practice that was very much constrained by upper-level Melbourne-based parochial and managerial imperatives than lower-level community aspirations and perspectives.
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Purpose
The paper’s purpose is to chart an alternate process but also demonstrate the role landscape design can offer to inform and better support the desired outcomes of projects in fragile environments.
Theoretical framework
Landscape narrative theory:
Projective design research theory

Results and conclusions
Describe your main results/findings and the conclusions of the paper.

Implications for Tipping Points
The tipping points are deep questions about designing in fragile landscapes and particularly high-erosion risk coastal landscapes, but also the accountability of professional practice to properly respond to real issues than upper-level imperatives.

Key words
Sustainable development, landscape planning, community engagement, tourism development model, tourism experience design