Notes are shorter field observations from studying, walking, reading, visiting museums, and looking closely at places, objects and everyday life.
Some begin with a street, a suburb, a museum or a walk. Others begin with a book, a plant, a display, a fragment or a small material trace. Together, they form the working archive behind Rong’s Field Notes.
I use Place Notes for streets, suburbs, museums, walks and heritage places; Material Notes for objects, fragments, plants, textures and traces; and Reading Notes for books, catalogues and ideas that change how I look at place.
Listening to the Building: Hyde Park Barracks
Hyde Park Barracks is not a museum where history simply waits behind glass. This field note looks at how its immersive audio guide, location-responsive sound, interactive projections, archaeological artefacts and World Heritage-listed architecture help visitors encounter convict history, colonial memory and heritage interpretation through movement, space and evidence
A City I Have Not Been to Yet - Kandy Sketchbook
A short reading note on Kandy Sketchbook: A Watercolour Journal, a gift from a Sri Lankan friend, and a first encounter with Kandy through watercolour, place and cultural heritage
Places I Keep Showing People in Sydney
A personal field note on the Sydney places I keep showing visitors, and what those choices say about memory, migration and everyday heritage
Royal Botanic Garden: Wollemi Pine and Bermuda Cedar
A short material note from Royal Botanic Garden Sydney on two rare trees, the Wollemi pine and Bermuda cedar, and what they reveal about conservation, survival and living heritage
A Walk Through Sans Souci
A short place note from Sans Souci and Lady Robinsons Beach, following a winter walk through coastal names, colonial houses, Aboriginal Country and small traces by the water.