The brief
Twenty-five sculptures carved at the Adelaide Hills International Sculpture Symposiums in 2012, 2014 and 2016, now scattered across the Hills and Fleurieu Peninsula. The trail only works if a visitor standing in Hahndorf can find out what is nearby.
What we built
Every sculpture has its own page with its town: Spacial Tension, Sailing of Soul, Prickly 3, Cosmic Connections, Hydris and The Sculptors at Mount Barker, Watersong at Macclesfield, Angel of Hahndorf and Infinity 2150 at Hahndorf, Le Peloton at Balhannah, Flow at Langhorne Creek, Water Stone at Mount Compass, Fossils at Meadows, Journeys and Prada at Stirling, Splash at Littlehampton, Star Gate at Nairne, Co-Existence at Woodside, Run like the Wind at Milang, Sunshine and Showers at Strathalbyn and Sunshine at Bridgewater.
A map ties them together for people walking or driving the trail. Artists, the stone itself, the history of the symposiums, and supporters and major donors each get a section, and a downloadable brochure covers visitors who would rather carry paper.
The engineering
Sculptures are structured content carrying their own location, which is what makes the map generated rather than hand-drawn. A sculpture that is removed, as one has been, is marked once and disappears from both the list and the map. The site is read outdoors on phones with patchy Hills reception, so it is built to be light and to work without a live connection to a third-party map widget.
Live at
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