The Living Pavilion Event Landscaping Project
ecoDynamics VIC Landscaping and Nursery helped create The Living Pavilion, an Indigenous-led event that transformed The University of Melbourne with 40,000+ native plants, showcasing culture, biodiversity, and sustainable design.
About the Living Pavilion Event landscaping project
The Living Pavilion was an Indigenous-led event on Wurundjeri Country at The University of Melbourne. ecoDynamics VIC Landscaping helped create a striking, temporary landscape featuring 40,000+ native plants from the Kulin Nations.
Designed to be fully recyclable, biodegradable, edible, and biodiverse
The Living Pavilion celebrated Indigenous knowledge systems, ecological science, and sustainable design through participatory arts practice.
This collaboration ensured that the chosen plants showcased the unique ecologies of the Kulin Nations, while also highlighting their cultural, nutritional, medicinal, and technological uses, cultivated over thousands of generations of careful custodianship.
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Our VIC Nursery played a key role in this project
Our Nursery donated plants and labour to help build aquatic and terrestrial landscapes on-site. Over 40,000 plants were relocated from our depot and installed to bring the space to life.
Beyond being an event space, The Living Pavilion served as a living laboratory. It engaged students, stakeholders, and the community in research across urban greening, biodiversity, place-making, social science, art, and design.
The Living Pavilion overview
All 40,000 plants were installed on the Thompsons Road upgrade—a Major Roads Projects Victoria initiative aimed at restoring and enhancing flora, fauna, and ecosystems affected by road construction, preserving and enriching roadside biodiversity.
ecoDynamics teams were proud to collaborate with Charles Solomon from Garawana Creative to deliver this innovative and meaningful project.
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