What is it about?
An exploration of the complicated histories and architectures of Tin City, a squatter’s colony in the heart of the largest mobile coastal sand dunes in the Southern hemisphere.
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Why is it important?
Considering squatting as a form of colonisation of this beautiful and ancient sand landscape underscores the creative power of nature and the non-human to resist both human dominance and associated architectures.
Perspectives
I enjoyed writing this piece using a creative and narrative-based approach that may better capture the experimental place and its architectures, human and inhuman.
Cathy Smith
University of New South Wales
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This page is a summary of: Tin City: Nomadic occupation, colonization and resistance in the sand dunes of Stockton Bight, Australia, Design Ecologies, June 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/des_00006_1.
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