How does Australia’s population density and geographical disparity as a demographic system orchestrate regional variations in the Australian English lexicon?

The concept of our linguistic identity in Australia has been largely unconsidered critically and academically, and this leaves room in Australian linguistic research that can produce a critical design response. Thus far, systematic indexing of Australian English has mostly only existed between words from Indigenous languages homogenized by English, or between Australian colloquialisms perceived by the rest of the English- speaking world.

Using generative data, 'maps' are created where factors including population, area, density, longitude and latitude are turned into colours, saturation and strength of gradient to create alternative mapping outcomes.

This speculative project intends to question the role of cartography and traditional mapping constructs in poetic and material investigation contexts, in order to establish an abstract, yet logical system that establishes language usage, not geography, as boundaries for mapping.