Plans are underway to return Hobart to being a Swimmable City. For thousands of years the Derwent's been used by people for swimming, bathing and fishing. In the 1800s there were a string of public pools in the the river with convicts and the gentry encouraged to bathe regularly. What is the plan? Why do it? Blueroom host Sabra Lane interviews the two people leading the campaign to return Hobart into a Swimmable City.
Allison Anderson works in Tourism and swimming is a part of her life, from being a child swimming in the Derwent. Mat Hinds is an architect - who can not imagine his life without regular emersion.
Guests:
Allison Anderson - Director, episteme.
Mat Hinds - Architect.
Swimmable Cities Hobart information:
https://www.episteme.com.au/swimming/project-one-f5w4d-tlljgpdf
Swimmable Cities Melbourne Information:
https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/news/return-river
The Swimmable Cities Movement:
SwimmableCities.org