This project explores how tourists can engage with natural landmarks in sustainable and indirect ways. How can we rethink the ways in which information can be communicated to tourists on the climate, geology, and geographical histories of a site? Non Visual site information includes sound, smell, taste, and also data such as weather patterns and climate history. Some non-visual information can be difficult to amalgamate into useful and impactful means to such as collecting and repurposing sounds and frequencies that are often left unthought about or ignored entirely.

 

My research sets out to find non-visual information and translate into physical forms as a means to enhance tourist engagement with sites. It may complement an existing trip or incentives for the traveler to visit a destination. I have used the 12 apostles as a case study for my research. Through techniques of converting data into different forms and experiences, I have developed a series of interventions along the journey.

 

I believe that this hidden data can serve many purposes including the creation of through-provoking objects and also more tangible impacts heightened environmental awareness. Being able to harness and manipulate sets of complicated or obtuse data into something useful, informative, and compelling is I believe a worthy topic of investigation, even more so when it is rooted in an environmental framework.