The Hyde Park Barracks
For this UNESCO World Heritage site, the Hyde Park Barracks is reinterpreted with an immersive, location-tracked, seamlessly interactive audio experience.
A renewal of the entire campus to create a history museum without text panels—illuminating multiple perspectives and the legacy of colonialism through first-person narratives and soundscapes.
Australia's convict story, and its impact on Aboriginal land and communities, unfolds across the rooms of the 19th century barracks, which later functioned as a female immigration depot and an asylum for indigent and elderly women.
The walls "speak" their stories, and more than 4,000 archaeological objects are on display, many for the first time; evidence of institutional life, hardship, and hope.
Sydney, Australia | 2020
Work completed with Local Projects. Image credits: Oriol Ferrer Mesià.