“The land around us is a reflection, not only of our practical and technological capacities, but also of our culture and society”.

“Our relation to landscape and environment is indeed one of our own affectivity as much as of our ability to effect”. It reflects our news like a dam or a farm for basic neccesities but also through the capacities we have to demolish, construct, build, rebuild, design we also begin to intertwine with the landscape what we want for the environment.

Also our identity is linked to a location or place. In Aboriginal Australian culture this emphasis on a person’s identity to where they were conceived or ancestral history is shown through how the “Land around them them everywhere is filled with marks of individual and ancestral origins and is dense with story and myth”.

Personally, my identity isn’t linked to a particular place or location as I was born in Australia although my culture background comes from China. Thus there is a disconnect between location and identity. My identity is a blend between two different places. But also do I need to live in China to connect to my heritage or there other ways as well? In Australia, there are signifiers of Australian-Chinese culture blending together. There is China Town, Chinese New Year celebration (event rather than location), there are other festivals relating to Chinese culture, even a Chinese museum. Australia being a multi-culturally country it has links to a lot of different cultures in the city.