Generation
LAKE MARGARET
Centre for Generation and Regeneration
Generation
LAKE MARGARET
Centre for Generation and Regeneration
A Centre for Generation
As the first major hydropower station in Tasmania, Lake Margaret has a history of innovation and experimentation, being constructed in remote and extremely arduous conditions, and inaccessible by road. Its six families were forced to innovate and experiment with the available resources, growing their own food, making toys and tools from scratch, and finding ways of working together as a small community under often difficult circumstances.
The Lake Margaret site crystallises the challenges of the West Coast in a time of climate change and the decline of mining and heavy industry in the region. Rich in cultural and natural heritage, with the scars of industry being gradually overtaken by rainforest, the site invites creative engagement about regeneration of many kinds.
Regeneration
Regeneration
A Centre for Regeneration
We imagine a revitalised Lake Margaret as an art site dedicated to ‘generation and regeneration’ on the West Coast. A place that provides an opportunity for personal and cultural renewal, and which also contributes toward regeneration of the environment and the economy of West Coast communities.
‘The Lake’ project will make use of experimental art and architecture as a way to envisage unexpected, and challenging, possibilities for building which responds to the extensive industrial heritage, sometimes extreme weather conditions, and striking natural landscape which characterise the site. As such, it also has the potential to lead the world as an exemplar of innovative regeneration of a remote former industrial site.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
This project was made possible by the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.’