Monday, 31 August 2020

An Australian Idyll - Part Four

The Australian idyll does not really begin within a room but in the cottage garden.

What do you really know about nature, and productive gardens?

What do you already know about the cottage itself?

How much have you already explored here?

The sitting room here may have been where you have mostly been responding to the questions posed in the workshops.

You may have been learning about cottage industries here, or in the sitting room or in the attic.

Do you consider an Australian idyll to be a public experience or a private one, or a communal one, or something else entirely?

What have you been learning about the idyllic, and from whose point of view?

How do you compare cottage industries with other experiences of working from home?

What have you been learning in the library here?

Do you usually associate cottages with the information industry?

There is much to learn from history.

You may or may not associate the cottage with creativity.

Do you consider idyllic cottages to be locations of sweetness and light?

There are many cultural considerations to make.

If your ideas of bliss are sentimentally romantic, or even kitsch or camp or cuteness, you may associate cottages with the modern tourism industry rather than the folklore of earlier times.

You may or may not associate a cottage with a creative culture, or with barbarians or philistines.