MAKINGplacedness TASMANIA: A BAMBOO SANCTUARY

Arguably there is a role for Bamboo Sanctuary Garden as a community garden in Launceston. Such a garden in reality cannot be managed and function in isolation from 'the community'. Certainly, if a garden of any kind on public land needs the support of Local Governance but ideally in cooperation and collaboration with and by-and-large managed by community members.

Given the need to contextualise bamboo in the CULTURALlandscape there is a parallel need to 'market' bamboo and its utility. Towards this end such a 'sanctuary garden' would ideally be curated as a 'destination' for local events and as a destination for the city's visitors.

In large part places like sanctuary gardens, facilitate more inclusive understandings of places and their stories. In a sense their purposefulness is to do with storytelling and developing a kind of 'literacy' which expands the range of, and enhance's the nature of, people's participation in sustainable natural resource management in the context of placedness.

That being accepted it is important that such a garden's purpose be clearly understood and articulated. As a 'nice idea' such a garden would have little relevance to many people and while it might be created to demonstrate sustainability, it would become unsustainable quickly enough.

Without meaningfulness, placedness and the storytelling such places are sadly mute albeit that if you listen the stories are there to be heard. In order to acquire a 1000bamboo not all will be 'alive' in this place but nonetheless there and present by design.

DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN

PURPOSE

To provide a culturally diverse community with a cluster of BAMBOOresources that collectively lead to better understandings of bamboo, its usefulness, and its utility in CULTURALlandscapes.

OBJECTIVES

Establish a resource that is valued in an environmental an cultural context.
To lay down a foundation that has the capacity to facilitate a viable and place oriented bamboo forestry.
To engage governance – Local, State, Federal & corporate – in proof-of-concept projects that through the use of bamboo in sustainable ways, communities on their own initiative as PLACEmakers can be CHANGEagents.
To provide a exemplar for the ways appropriate bamboo species can be effective environmental repair and remediation in the context the need to do in the face of the climate emergency that is upon the planet.
To develop the skills within both urban and rural communities that are needed to effectively enlist appropriate bamboos to be deployed in the cause of sustainable CULTURALlandscaping.
To establish an entity that operates as COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE that has rhizomatic cum network links and interfaces with multiple operations in Launceston, Tasmania and beyond.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Bamboo has enormous and demonstrated potential in mitigating climate change no matter where it is grown.
A foundation for a BAMBOOindustry that facilitates a viable and place oriented BAMBOOforestry will enable better and more sustainable 'timber harvesting' in Tasmania.
It is an imperative to engage governance – Local, State, Federal & corporate – in proof-of-concept projects to demonstrate the viability of bamboo in regard to communities being sustainable PLACEmakers and CHANGEagents.
Given the misinformation that has gained unjustified negativity relative to Bamboo communities need exemplars for the ways appropriate bamboo species can be effective environmental repair and remediation.
Given that currently there is a dearth of skills relative to bamboo's husbandry and its us in construction in Tasmanisa, there is a need develop the skills base in order that Tasmania can actually profit from the sustainability dividends bamboo offers in the cause of developing sustainable CULTURALlandscaping with bamboo fulfilling its potential. Moreover, it needs to bean entity that has the the capacity to operates and function as COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE rather than a standalone corporate entity given that it:

Needs to be a component of a rhizomatic cum network of communities and their operations, enterprises and organisations; that in turn
Needs to have links and interfaces with multiple stand alone operations in Tasmania and beyond; and that it
Needs to be understood as an entity that can be understood as a Community of Ownership & Interest that delivers sustainability dividends to the multiple layers of memberships and do so equitably.

STRATEGIES

Be a proactive advocate fo bamboo and its enormous and demonstrated potential in mitigating climate change no matter where it is grown.
Be a component of the foundation that a viable BAMBOOindustry
Ensure that governance – Local, State, Federal & corporate – is aware of, and ideally engaged in, proof-of-concept projects via proof-fo-concept projects.
Be proactive in countering the misinformation that has gained unjustified negativity relative to bamboo communities via social media and the publication of information in various formats.
Be a proactive in addressing the dearth of skills relative to bamboo's husbandry and its us in construction in Tasmania.
Be a proactive in promoting the planting of bamboo and promoting bamboo's capacity to fulfil its potential.
Be a proactive in promoting any entity relative to bamboo that has the capacity to operates and function as COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE rather than a standalone corporate entity.
Be a proactive component of a rhizomatic cum network of communities and their operations, enterprises and organisations; that in turn
Be a proactive in promoting entities/operation, that have links and interfaces with multiple stand alone operations in Tasmania and beyond; and that i
Be a proactive in developing an understanding of the Community/ies of Ownership & Interest that aim to deliver sustainability dividends to the multiple layers of memberships and the communities outside their networks.