THE WEIR POOL
A safe place to swim, paddle, and enjoy the river
We ❤️ Weir Pool began with a series of events.
designed to include key interest groups in a welcoming, casual, creative, and thought provoking manner, these events centred around breaking bread together while celebrating what we love about this place.
We first hosted a picnic for regular swimmers where we asked people to imagine what a goddess of the Weir Pool would be like, and how, if the Weir Pool could speak for itself, it might imagine its own goddess.
We hosted a supper for veterans of Mind the Gap and we asked them to speak as wise elders, as the oracles or prophets of the goddess of the Weir Pool, and tell us about the values they felt were active in the process of creating and maintaining the Weir Pool.
We also held a public engagement session in Thomastown and launched a public survey which received over 200 responses, giving invaluable insight into how, when and why people visit the Weir Pool, and what they feel are the most important things to protect about the Weir Pool.
View the full project documentation here