“In early 2011, in the far north of Queensland, the Cardwell community experienced the savage force of Cyclone Yasi, which generated a storm surge so powerful that it left the Cardwell foreshore a desolate landscape. Since this devastation, Cardwell has reconstructed its foreshore with a new sense of identity and vibrancy. We worked with community representatives of Cardwell and the project’s landscape architects to design the signage, pathway treatments and interpretive elements of the three-mile foreshore. Our design approach had to be mindful of working with a community that had lost everything. It was never about the aha moment, but rather about how to work in a meaningful way with and for Cardwell’s residents.”