The relationship between environmental demands based upon economic function frame the Makara landscape, and are signicant to Wellingtons west coast. Where land used previously as grazing for farm animals, continues today now with the signicant additional of contemporary industrial practices and symbols. The wind turbines are seen as polarizing poster child for ‘green’ rhetoric whilst paradoxically representing the industrial imposition upon natural environs.

Through research and analysis, the various merits of the Makara wind farm are presented as graphic design diagrams with the support of statistical, cartographic, and diagrammatic language. This resultant series of information design panels can be described as wayfinding universally employed to navigate and communicate complex information. Producing a compelling argument between the Makara wind farms positive and negative attributes.