Projects

Independent evaluation of the cultural values methodology being developed by WWCHAC for the Birrarung (Yarra River). The pilot project focused...

This Traditional Owner Cultural Values project focused on values — meanings and significance — of the places and features that...

In 2020, Context led the community engagement as a Master Plan for Kamay Botany Bay National Park was shaped, and...

The Hoddle Grid, which comprises the original 1837 layout for Melbourne, is laid over a landscape rich with history. Situated...

Creating a Master Plan for the Melbourne Gardens included engaging with the three Traditional Owner organisations at the start of...

Melbourne Connect is a ‘purpose built innovation precinct’ located on the site of the Royal Women’s Hospital. Context researched the...

Context worked in collaboration with New Zealand architects DPA to create a new Conservation Plan for Canterbury Museum. Context’s role...

Crossing the iconic Lake Burley Griffin, Commonwealth Avenue Bridge forms a key gateway linking Canberra’s north with its Parliamentary Zone.<br...

Part of Melbourne’s outstanding parklands, the Old Melbourne Observatory Site and the Melbourne Gardens, located in Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra...

Context, with Tim Sullivan, designed and facilitated a workshop with Australian Ex-POW Memorial Trustees and the City of Ballarat in...

The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is located in the traditional Country of the Gunditjmara people in south-eastern Australia.
The...

Preston Market, built in 1969, is a much-loved place, serving the cultural and shopping needs of the diverse communities of...

Understanding Aboriginal cultural values was central to developing design concepts and public art opportunities for University and Lincoln Squares based...

As a major twentieth century metropolitan cemetery Fawkner Memorial Park is on the Victorian Heritage Register and the development of...

Sunshine Municipal Offices, once a focus of local government activity, had been replaced by new offices when Context was invited...

Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia has a special place in the hearts of Canberrans and Australians more widely. Opened in...

A Heritage Landscape Management Framework for the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park needed to recognise outstanding cultural landscape relating to...

Victory Park is a small park located in the heart of Castlemaine, a regional centre in central Victoria. Its an...

In the Commemorative Area of the Australian War Memorial, the two Aboriginal sculpted faces look down at the assembled crowd...

With the demolition of Bruce Hall scheduled by ANU, and approvals given, the Bruce Hall Alumni sought urgent advice on...

Responding to a proposal to demolish the Greyhound Hotel and to significant community concerns, the City of Port Phillip commissioned...

This report explored opportunities to provide additional guidance on the assessment of social significance (Criterion G) at the state level...

Context completed a Heritage Interpretation Strategy for Lendlease for Melbourne Quarter, a new precinct in Docklands located on the site...

Lake Boort is part of a chain of wetlands that extend north from Boort, in north western Victoria.

It offers...

Melbourne’s Domain Parkland and Memorial Precinct has been permanently added to Australia’s National Heritage List. The area listed includes Alexandra...

The City of Melbourne proposed that new parkland be created along Southbank Boulevard between the Yarra River and the Domain...

The house in Dagonet Street, Strathmore used in the filming of the Australian film ‘The Castle’ is associated with the...

City of Port Phillip invited Context to provide a cultural heritage assessment of the London Hotel, Port Melbourne, which was...

As a result of the Melbourne Metro Rail Authority works around the South Yarra Station an upgraded citation for the...

What is intangible cultural heritage, and how might it be protected? This was the question asked by the Heritage Council...

The Albury Library Museum hold a very interesting heritage collection of almost 300 objects that relate to Uiver – an...

This desktop study was commissioned by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to better understand the cultural heritage...

The Queen Victoria Market is a special Melbourne place, loved by generations as a market and meeting place. Historically, the...

Victoria has an important Aboriginal history, one that is often not well recognised. Together the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council and...

Siding Spring Observatory is located in northern NSW. It is Australia’s premier optical and infrared observatory. The Heritage Management Plan...

Context, working collaboratively Duncan Marshall, prepared a draft Heritage Management Plan for the Senate and House of Representatives Gardens that...

Working collaboratively with Getty Conservation Institute team members David Myers and Gail Ostergren, Chris Johnston assisted with editing of the...

Kingston & Arthur’s Vale Historic Area (KAVHA), Norfolk Island, is one of the 11 places that make up the Australian...

Treasury Reserve has played an important place in the history of Melbourne for its role in accommodating important government functions...

Recognising that Atherton Gardens Public Housing Estate in Fitzroy is important to the Aboriginal community, DHHS engaged Context to explore...

The Australian Alps are a place of great cultural significance for the Australian Alps First Peoples. This project was initiated...

Context was engaged to carry out a ‘peer review’ of the Conservation Management Plan prepared for the former Ballarat Orphanage...

Context worked in a team of consultants led by Duncan Marshall Heritage Consultant to develop a Heritage Management Plan for...

This Conservation Management Plan was commissioned by the Maribyrnong City Council for the Footscray Town Hall and its associated heritage...

Context was commissioned by Parks Victoria to conduct social and historical research into the expressions of community heritage values held...

Ballarat’s landscape today is the culmination of thousands of years of land management and change, not least the gold mining...

This Desktop Comparative Analysis was carried out by Dr Anita Smith with Context. The project aimed to provide evidence of...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is a vast, complex and highly dynamic land and seascape that was inscribed on the World...

This professional development course was designed and developed by Chris Johnston (Context) and presented through the Institute for Professional Practice...

The City of Melbourne sought Context’s help to deepen connections with the local Indigenous community ‘beyond ceremony and acknowledgement, creating...

On behalf of the Australian Heritage Council and DSEWPC, the Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage and the Arts (ANU)...

The Tarkine encompasses wild coastlines, vast rolling buttongrass plains and vast swathes of temperate rainforest in north-western Tasmania. Context was...

Places can become ruins because they lack a current purpose, are disused, have been abandoned or have been impacted by...

Symbolic and potent, Anzac Parade is a significant element in Canberra’s designed landscape. For those with personal, family and community...

Located on the ‘turquoise coast’ north of Perth in Western Australia, Wedge Island and Grey are the two largest shack...

Ngootyoong Gunditj Ngootyoong Mara South West Management Plan offers an innovative, landscape-scale approach to the integrated management of ecological, cultural...

Context, with Robin Crocker, Ian Jack & Colleen Morris, was commissioned to research the potential national heritage values of a...

Using a combination of on-line surveys, interviews and small group discussions, Context investigated the importance of Weston Park to people...

Migration is part of Australia’s story, and post-war migration changed the country is fundamental and far-reaching ways. This project sought...

Context facilitated community engagement on the construction of a second Murray crossing. Through a workshop, community members provided starting points...

Chris Johnston was commissioned by Heritage Victoria to deliver a presentation on assessing social significance to the Protocols Committee of...

Using the Inspirational Landscapes methodology as a starting point, Context prepared a framework designed to provide a national comparative basis...

Bringing new place names into a locality that has a long and complex history needs to be underpinned by good...

Conservation Management Plans: Managing Heritage Places – A Guide was prepared for Heritage Victoria and designed to support owners and...

The nine-storey Nicholas Buildings were designed in 1924 by Harry Norris for Alfred Nicholas as speculative office and retail space....

Context was employed by the National Capital Authority to assess the social and aesthetic values of Canberra’s Central Parklands and...

Lake Burley Griffin is one of the defining features of Australia’s national capital, and is an essential part of the...

Context Pty was appointed to assess the social value of the Parliament House Vista, a place on the Commonwealth Heritage...

To determine Broken Hill’s aesthetic and social significance, Context used the National Heritage List framework and the ‘inspirational landscapes’ report...

Situated approximately 12 kilometres from Nowa Nowa in East Gippsland, Lake Tyers (or Bung-yarnda) has long been a place of...

Working with Duncan Marshall and others, Sandy Blair (Context) worked with the communities and cultural groups associated with Lanyon in...

The Meeting Place Precinct is within Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell, near Sydney’s southern beaches, and is the site...

Lake Condah – returned to its original name Tae Rak – is set amongst the rugged lava flows that now...

To bring community values and aspirations into a plan for the La Perouse Headland, part of the northern section of...

Advice to the NSW Heritage Office on the development of guidelines for the assessment of social significance.

Most renowned as a convict prison, Port Arthur sits within a landscape important to Aboriginal people and was a town...

The Sustainable Tourism Plan is a practical framework, based on extensive systematic planning, for the Gunditjmara Aboriginal people to develop...

The Conservation Management Plan for the Isle of the Dead, the location of the penal station cemetery at Port Arthur,...

Context prepared a social significance assessment of the Board Walk complex, part of the Expo 88 site that had been...

To support the assessment of aesthetic values of four landscapes nominated for the National Heritage List – Stirling Ranges (WA),...

Context was commissioned by Maribyrnong City Council to provide advice about the heritage significance of part of the former Midway...

In 2002-3 fires destroyed two-thirds of Kosciuszko National Park including many of the huts which dotted the high country. The...

The former Warburton Mechanics Institute is not only one of the oldest remaining buildings in the Upper Yarra Valley but...

Parramatta Civic Place is an area of important heritage values. The purpose of this project was to identify the contemporary...

The Defence Site, Maribyrnong is located in a horseshoe bend on the south side of the Maribyrnong River in Maribyrnong,...

The primary goal of this project, initiated by the Australian Heritage Commission, was to understand some of the qualities of...

Context prepared a social significance assessment of White Bay Power Station (NSW) to identify the features of the power station...

The 1803-4 Collins Settlement site in Sorrento is a complex site with strong natural, Aboriginal and historic values. Development of...

Preliminary social significance assessment of the Villawood Migrant Centre, in association with Godden Mackay Logan. The assessment included the nature...

The assessment of social value of this former detention centre was commissioned to contribute to the development of a Conservation...

The Rocks is a significant part of the Sydney landscape, and highly valued by Sydneysiders. Working with a project team...

Lake Condah Mission (in western Victoria) and the nearby Cemetery is a highly significant heritage place for its importance to...

Analysis of heritage considerations for the redevelopment of Waverley Park for the Stockland Corporation proposal. This included the analysis of...

Preliminary assessment of the heritage and cultural significance of the Moorabbin Town Hall, in association with Nigel Lewis. The assessment...

Context designed and ran a series of community heritage workshops across this large Southern region of NSW. Workshop reports and...

Consultation with those associated with the Ingleburn army camp from 1939 to the present informed this assessment of social value....

Community heritage workshops throughout these two regions identified a large number of heritage places – including natural areas/features, historic sites,...

Working with Robin Crocker & Associates, Context helped develop and test an assessment method for aesthetic values assessment within the...

This Australia-wide project created practical guidance for communities and local governments to assist them in recognising and protecting cultural and...

The Upper Mersey Valley is an upland area in northern Tasmania. Most of the study area is within the Tasmanian...

A preliminary social value assessment was undertaken of the Footscray Drill Hall as part of an assessment of its cultural...

Community heritage workshops and social value assessments as part of the national estate studies for the Regional Forest Agreements in...

Community heritage workshops throughout the region identified a large number of heritage places associated with forested area. The results were...

In Tasmania, the Commonwealth/State Regional Forest Agreement project addressed the whole state as a single region. Local community heritage workshops...

Teaching at University of Canberra’s biennial Summer School on assessing social value and working with communities. The Summer Schools started...

The social value of Yeronga Military Hospital for the women who had lived and worked there was investigated through focus...

Adelaide’s first purpose built creche had started to be demolished when the Australian Heritage Commission stepped in and asked Context...

Australian forests have witnessed conflict over many decades, with multiple values and polarised perspectives on the logging of native forests....

Project with Southern Cross University to assess the qualities and values expressed by local people about the Alstonville Plateau. Community...

Working with the Murri (Aboriginal), Greek and local communities, Chris worked closely with Peter Marquis -Kyle (Allom Lovell Marquis-Kyle) to...

Community heritage workshops were held throughout the East Gippsland region in 1993 to identify places valued by the community, and...

As part of a wider project on understanding the heritage values of the coastal landscapes of Coffs Harbour (northern NSW),...

The design of a major freeway bypass on the Calder Highway, a major route northwards from Melbourne, triggered an Environmental...

The Lake Condah area is a highly significant part of Australia’s Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal heritage. Now included on the World...

The concept of social value, that is the significance of heritage places to particular groups or communities as a result...

Development of a training program on heritage conservation for local government authorities. The project involved assessment of training needs across...

In 1986-87, Meredith Walker, Chris Johnston and Carmel Boyce formed a team to prepare a heritage study and strategy for...