Abandoned Bobsled Track, Sarajevo
Constructed for the 1984 winter Olympics and transformed into an artillery position during the siege of Sarajevo (5 Apr 1992 – 29 Feb 1996), this decaying concrete infrastructure offers its own unique terrain vague experience. Now that’s a green (high) line.
Location: Abandoned Bobsled Track, Sarajevo
Dr Jillian Walliss is an Associate Professor in landscape architecture at the University of Melbourne. She works across multiple platforms including digital media, exhibition and festival curation, guest editing of books and journals, along with writing for a wide range of academic and professional journals. Her research is characterised by strong links to design practice. In 2020 she co-edited The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture (Jovis) which is considered ground-breaking for its innovative theorising of Asian perspectives of nature, design, and urbanism. In 2023 she co-curated (with Heike Rahmann) the Landscape Architecture as Changemakers project which was exhibited as part of Melbourne Design Week and travelled to Tokyo’s Kudan House. This exhibition works with audio-visual media and cross-cultural reflections to rethink the way that Australian and Japanese landscape architecture is understood and presented. Jillian was co-creative director of the International Festival of Landscape Architecture ‘The Park and the Square’ held in Melbourne in October 2019 with Kirsten Bauer and Cassandra Chilton.