The Legacy of Water: Palimpsest of landscapes shaped by water in the Mackenzie District - Jorden Derecourt

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Vision:

• Revolutionizing farming and tourism in the Mackenzie.
• Catalyzing a resilient, community driven, sustainable, and productive landscape change.
• Fostering a symbiotic relationship between the community and the iconic Mackenzie landscape.

The Design: Creating a new and engaging type of interaction with the landscape, where an increase of humans in the landscape is of benefit to the Biodiversity, Production and aesthetic values of the landscape.This is achieved by the catalytic intervention of a Campsite around Kellands Pond, South of Lake Ruataniwha, along SH8. This camping experience has one key difference, the exchange is not of NZD, it is of time, energy, and investment in the landscape. For every night spent in thesite, an individual must plant, or mulch, or otherwise contribute to the management of this landscape. Through this the visitor forms a moretangible connection to the landscape. This blurred the definition between someone whois visiting, and someone to whom the site holds a deeper connection, causing them in turn to value it.