“Dwelling is pervaded by sparing which lets The Mountain be, the way it is.”1
For those who live in southern lutrawita/Tasmania, kunanyi/Mount Wellington and the Wellington Range are immutably present in the landscape of life. When considering writing about the unique landscape of kunanyi and the practice of Inspiring Place, I was reminded of an essay by Peter Hay, Tasmanian poet and philosopher. In it, Hay professed that the genius loci or sense of place “arises from the aggregated perception of people with a common bond,” forged through deep, shared experiences of a home place as the keeper of collective memory.2 In Hay’s terms, the kunanyi is part of the genius loci of nipaluna/Hobart. Deeply experienced by many since the time of the Palawa people, the mountain is the shared heart of what it means to be at home in this place.
At 1,270 metres high, kunanyi sits above Hobart at the apex of the Wellington Range, which
