Edges, Bridges and the Torrent

Commemorative Parkland M3 Eastlink.  Eastlink Tollway. Image of first road fatality on Eastlink. February 18 2010. Herald Sun. Photograph by Tony Eccleston.      This intervention explores Marc Auge’s concept of the non-place through one part of his definition of a place as being where the “dead may dwell”.   The single piece of urban infrastructure known in 2006 as the M5 (Motorway 5) is treated as a timeline in space and form of the 1960s transport solution to what Aiden Davison described as the Suburban City of Melbourne, Australia. A suburban city is one which builds its suburbs before developing an urban core. Melbourne has experience two sustained periods of massive suburban expansion in its brief 175 years of urban history. I wanted to conduct an experiment connected to the long-standing roadside memorials in the F19 Freeway (see Nature Stripped) and the fundamental difference in permissible use between the same form and continuing li...