Migrant heritage, domesticity, and transnational prefabrication: Snowy Hydro project (1949–1974)

Amit Srivastava, Ali Mozaffari and Anoma Pieris

Landscape Research, 2025, vol. 50, issue 7, 1138-1157

Abstract: The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme (Snowy Hydro) was a frontier for technological advancement, transnational expertise, and migrant labour from 1949 to 1974. This article offers a discussion of the Snowy Hydro project and its representation as part of the ‘Immigrant Networks’ exhibition held in Melbourne in 2022–23. As a multidisciplinary dialogue, it brings together perspectives from Construction History, Heritage Studies, and Architectural History to reconsider the exhibition object and its capacities to communicate the migrant experience. As such it opens questions about place-making and domesticity, exploring the nature of transience and the ritualising of the seemingly insignificant. It further investigates the influence of architecture in the physical staging of these domestic practices, and the evolving relationship between labour practices and cultural approaches to space and materials. Finally, it explores the subjectivity of the researchers and the research process, and investigates the question of who gets to write migrant history.

Date: 2025
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