PROJECT SCOPES 

Contain several individual components engineered to individual requirements:

  • Development of master trail plans

  • Funding applications sensitive to funding body requirements.

  • Meetings with local Elders

  • Development and generation of QR codes

  • Recording, editing and publishing stories

  • Writing interpretive signage

  • Installation of directional signage

  • Developing trail mapping including projected extensions

  • Uploading trail information to Trails WA in Western Australia

  • Filming of video clips for teaching local history and traditions

  • Development of detailed asset registers to facilitate maintenance. 

PROCESSES INCLUDE 

Site assessment, scope, mapping, strategy and solutions to provide:

  • Feasible pathways identified during consultation 

  • Easily recognisable and consistent trails

  • Residents with nature-based activities agreed by all stake holders; 

  • Connections sensitive to the inclusion of history – Aboriginal, Settlement Heritage, and Iconic "Sense-of-Place" Locations

  • Economical, sustainable and accessible assets

  • Assessment based on conversations held that includes investigating existing trails and signage to ensure solutions

  • Identification of priority phases

  • A wide range of user's unique experiences

  • Opportunities to tell local Aboriginal stories either through Aboriginal businesses or interpretation to embrace the growing interest in Aboriginal culture. 

  • International visitors with services on trails to support the expansion of local business and tap into the growing visitor economy.

  • Consistent collaborative and co-ordinated planning

  • Sustainable design and maintenance

  • Clever use of Interpretive signage

  • Inclusion of history: Aboriginal, local and heritage

  • Use of Technology including apps and QR codes

  • Cater for future asset and trail management

In summary, investigation of the area will be undertaken and local Aboriginal consultation will be carried out.  After full assessment of the area and any existing trails or iconic landmarks have been considered, endorsement of suggested locations will be sought.  Upon agreement, stories will be recorded, edited and linked with QR codes.  

Indigenous languages are considered endangered and support for the development of literature and other creative works in spoken and written form is stimulated.  At the time of European settlement in 1788, more than 250 Indigenous Australian languages, including 800 dialectal varieties were spoken on the continent. Sadly only 13 traditional Indigenous languages are still acquired by children.

In recognition of place and people, we aim to preserve the remaining languages for future generations to connect to country.

A sample of an established network of trails developed can be seen at www.whadjukwalkingtrails.org.au