Gunyama Park Stage 2

During Stage 2 of Gunyama, the City of Sydney engaged Djinjama to ensure that the design considered and reflected the Gunyama Indigenous Interpretation Strategy, and that opportunities for further alignment with the strategy were identified. The Indigenous Interpretation Strategy acts as a high-level visioning document that provides a framework to support the integration of landscape, public art and signage to create a unique place identity that responds to Country. The Strategy is an interpretive overlay integrated into the built environment, with a key objective to respond to, and complement the existing design concepts underpinning the architecture, landscaping and public artwork.

Djinjama produced concepts, detailed design and construction documentation of key cultural elements of the project that provide colours, textures and material palettes from Country, materials and furniture specifications, culturally significant plants, and a cultural planting schedule and plan. As part of the interpretive responses for the park, Djinjama designed explanatory signage, ground plane graphic and typographic interpretations, and nesting boxes for non-human kin. Each of these interpretations communicated the project’s overarching concept of Cultural Seasons.