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                    Morwenna Schenck

                    2021: Round 1

                    Orange line drawing on black background showing plants on hospital drips
                    Morwenna is a Melbourne-based designer and production manager delivering projects for performance and experimental arts.

                    ​Morwenna’s practice encompasses illustration, drafting, technical documentation, construction and production management. She has delivered projects across various creative industries in both creative and production roles for theatre, festivals, televised events, galleries, exhibitions and commercial architecture.

                    She frequently collaborates with Punctum Inc and Polyglot Theatre as Production Manager and Designer, and Melbourne International Comedy Festival delivering designs for their special events program.

                    Morwenna is a member of Punctum Inc’s core artistic committee. Key design projects that Morwenna has delivered for Punctum include Public Cooling House, The Pavilion Project and theWay~theWater~theWalk.

                    Morwenna is also a collaborating member of The Pump, an interdisciplinary exchange platform. It is an international community of artists, scientists, academics and community leaders, who blend artistic and scientific practice to create projects that promote agency in people’s relationships with water.

                    Duty of Care

                    Duty of Care is a public artwork in two parts, delivering short acts of conservation through seed propagation. It will provide publics an opportunity to encounter and connect with critically endangered flora species from various Victorian bio-regions. The project provides a practical means to satisfy our duty of care to protect our environment and biodiversity into the future. 

                    Seeds collected for the project will require human intervention to be stimulated from a state of physical dormancy. Such actions are ordinarily performed in nature through symbiotic relationships and environmental factors. Destruction of habitat compounds biodiversity loss through disruption of these ecological systems. Duty of Care fulfills these functions and creates a new relationship of mutualism between humans and endangered species. 

                    Part one

                    A pop-up seed propagation station. A quick way to get hands on with propagation. Acts of Duty are recorded in a ledger and the accumulative success or failure of a species population is determined. 

                    Part two

                    A temporary design installation. Part horticultural nursery, part medical ward. A place to engage with threatened indigenous flora throughout a complete life cycle.

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