Yuqing (Jenny) Wang

This project aims to reestablish the connectivity between local residents and the soil that was brutally exploited by traditional productive activities along the Highland Boundary Fault. By converting the former Airlie Estate into a Land Exhibition Center, it presents farmers and land owners locally and around the world who are struggling to find a use of their land under the stress of climate change and extreme weather events, such as drought, intensive flooding and temperature rising, a new opportunity for their land to carry out sustainable economic activities. 

The exhibition center provides visitors the opportunity to experience a variety of land systems, including: The Rewetted floodplain, The Flooded home farm, The Hybrid Forest and The Future farmland. Each area represents and showcases experimental sustainable land use activities that maximize economic productivity and biodiversity, aiming to explore our position as humans under current stress. A Visitor’s Experimenting Center, located in the middle of the Exhibition Center, breathes new life into the existing historical landscape and bridges history with the future; facilitating a place for visitors to observe and experience the experimental activities closely.