Where Wild Things Were
Brenton Beggs
Masters of Landscape Architecture and Design - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
brenton.beggs@gmail.com


Tourism and landscape share a socio economic context. This project explores The phenomenon of international tourism In the developing village of Vang Vieng in Laos. Vang Vieng is a prime example of a local place at the mercy of regional and international systems and their fluctuations. The creeping fingers of globalisation have woven a dynamic and highly complex relationship of inequality between the tourist, the local merchant and subsistence farmer, pressuring the regional elephant population (both domesticated and wild) and its habitat.

As a Landscape Architect how might I address these frictions? What do I assume, think, or really know about them and how does this translate into design?