Reading the Landscape activates the stormwater harvesting infrastructure at Sydney Park through a series of sculptural interventions that aim to connect the community to urban water cycles. The artworks highlight the invisible or hidden processes that take place in the biofiltration and wetlands systems throughout the park.

Faunascopes: inviting fauna observation

The Reading the Landscape scheme creates a number of new habitats. Faunascopes, simple pipe telescopes positioned throughout the site, invite visitors to focus their gaze on the aquatic, terrestrial and arboreal habitats within the wetlands. Approximately twenty Faunascopes are located throughout the wetland system.

At some sites, the Faunascopes are paired with corresponding habitat boxes, each marked by a yellow base that signals their discovery. The view through each Faunascope is framed by cut-out letters that name the fauna that inhabit the scene beyond the telescope lens.