Glass Elevator
This fully immersive 360-degree Virtual Reality headset visual experience takes the viewer on a ‘glass elevator’ ride flying over Table Cape during tulip season. Splendid views over the tulips, out past the edge of the cape, over Fossil Bluff and back allow viewers to experience Table Cape in ways that are not humanly possible.
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Austrade
Walking With Giants
This part of the Sensing Table cape project is a collaboration with University of Tasmania, exploring the use of Virtual Reality to create a 3-Dimensional rendering of Table Cape itself. As a digital technology-based virtual reality (VR) simulation learning and placemaking initiative, ‘Walking with Giants’ supports users to experience virtual content in an accessible and inclusive environment. In doing so, the virtual reality explorer is able to stand above Table Cape, from a giant’s perspective, to survey a digital photogrammetry rendering of the cape and a variety of objects that invite the traveller to explore the cape further.
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Austrade, UTAS
Sound Walk
The existing walk between the Table Cape lookout and the lighthouse has been enhanced with a geo-location-triggered sound walk. Rachel Meyers, a renowned Tasmanian sound artist, composer and musician, has a passion for listening deeply to the land, allowing us to capture the sound of this ancient geological structure, Table Cape, in ways that are not humanly possible. Rachel has combined these “listenings” of Table Cape and its surrounds with an original composition she has made for this project to create a multi-sensory walk that takes in the views, flora and fauna of table cape.
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Austrade
Moonlight Stories – Lighthouse Projection
Part of the OFF Season 2023 campaign and upcoming 2024 campaign, Moonlight Stories offers a visual platform of winter projections of artwork under the moonlight and the stars, imparting knowledge from the artist to the audience. Moonlight represents an important cultural touchstone to the local Northwest tribe the Tommeginne, who travelled seasonally across the Northwest, including Table Cape. The full moon represented a time for Tommeginne people to gather, share food, stories and knowledge around firelight. Moonlight Stories provides us an opportunity to connect to a similar experience, an opportunity to learn and share stories and knowledge around a different kind of light, but still under moonlight.
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Austrade
Murals
Any opportunity to spruce up a big blank wall and we’re there! As part of our promotions budget, we allocate a bit of funding to support local artists in creating interesting pieces of work to bring to life otherwise dull blank walls. Our local artist Ariel Pascoe completed the Tigers Mural on the outside of the Kmart Building in Mount street in 2021. In 2022, we scoped out a run-down wall in need of some attention and, with a great deal from Direct Edge Equipment rentals, got to work on this cherry picker to bring Ariel’s work to new heights!
Why bother creating images on blank walls? I hear you say. Well, there is plenty of good research out there that tells us that street facades with plenty of activity and interest create greater feelings of wellbeing than those large empty wall spaces. So hopefully seeing a few empty walls spruced up in our CBD will make you want to stay a bit longer and visit more often!
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Burnie City Council
Urban Provocations
The urban provocations project is a joint project between Business Northwest and Cradle Coast Authority.
Status: Ongoing
Sponsor: Cradle Coast Authority
The Makers – Innovation Hub
The University of Tasmania has transformed the Makers into an exciting new technology and innovation hub.
Launched Thursday 1 February, the iconic building’s new chapter as The Makers brings together four areas: the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA), the College of Business and Economics’ Tech Solutions Hub, a business incubator and a public demonstration space.
Aspiring entrepreneurs will have access to an accelerator program run through the business incubator, with advice and mentoring offered at monthly community networking events.
Status: Ongoing
Sponsor: UTAS, Cradle Coast Authority
Feasibility study for use of VR in industry training
Walking with Giants has led to funding for a feasibility study into the use of VR for training in industries. Business Northwest is partnering with UTAS to run the study.
Status: Ongoing
Sponsor: UTAS
Project Hercules
Project Hercules is a series of six videos filmed to promote worker migration to north-west Tasmania.
- Project Hercules Trailer
- Mathew Kenzie
- Margot Kelly
- Peter Mancell
- Stephanie Jaensch
- The Reeds
- Billy And Allison
- Project Hercules promo video
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Department of State Growth
Helping Burnie Work
Business Northwest received funding to conduct four courses to train 32 long-term unemployed people in the soft skills required to get a job and keep it. We provided three weeks of classroom training followed by a minimum one week of
work experience plus ongoing mentoring.
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Department of Education, Skills and Employment
Living History walk
Tas Living History is an initiative of Business Northwest. This walk seeks to connect people, both visitors and locals, to the local history. Working with the local history groups, Burnie City Council and the Regional and State museums, we strove to create innovative ways to link our history and our stories to the modern viewer. From this germination, Tasmanian Living History (Tas Living History) was born.
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Burnie City Council
Living History Wynyard
A Living History walk Business Northwest produced for Wynyard.
Status: Completed
Sponsor: Burnie City Council
Community Tree Lighting
Business Northwest promoted the installation of permanent LED lights in the Norfolk pine on the corner of Mount and Cattley Streets. The lights can be programmed to display millions of colours and visual effects.
Status: Ongoing
Sponsor: Burnie City Council
Renew Burnie
Business Northwest partnered with Burnie 2.0, Burnie City Council and Renew Australia to work together in a project that involves reimagining, reinvigorating and reinvesting in projects for Burnie Tasmania.
Using the Renew Australia model, Renew Burnie offers emerging creative businesses rent free access to vacant commercial spaces in the CBD to support their business evolution, and in return this helps create a more vibrant and culturally diverse CBD.
Status: Ongoing
Sponsor: Burnie City Council
Penguin Cams
Installation of penguin cameras in the West Park area to monitor Burnie’s little penguin colonies and promote the Penguin Centre. A live stream is available on YouTube.
Status: Ongoing
Sponsor: Burnie City Council
EVRG Platypus Cam
Business Northwest’s plan to make Burnie a more attractive place to live and visit spawned the introduction of a platypus
cam into the Emu Valley Rhododendron Gardens. Facilitated by the state government, the platypuses were live to watch via our YouTube channel, but due to network instability, the stream is offline until further notice.
Status: Ongoing
Sponsor: Department of State Growth