#LastChanceTourism
#lastchancetourism is a speculative design provocation that interrogates the ethical, ecological, and socio-spatial contradictions of "last chance tourism" — the paradoxical phenomenon where human travel to endangered landscapes accelerates their degradation. Situated at the intersection of critical human geography, environmental humanities, and speculative design, the inquiry asks how visual inscription and cartographic experimentation can reframe human encounters with fragile, post-natural environments. Deployed as a targeted social media campaign during a significant 2016 coral bleaching event, the project strategically highlighted and amplified the ensuing media debate regarding the reported "death" of the Great Barrier Reef. Methodologically, the work establishes an experimental spatial framework using speculative cartography, photographic documentation, and graphic notation to translate abstract climate projections and environmental decay into tangible spatial artefacts, advancing geo-humanities practices and generating novel epistemologies for understanding anthropogenic disturbance. The project employs high-impact political messaging that highlights the sharp contradiction between the Great Barrier Reef's ecological uniqueness as a World Heritage site, its economic tourism value to Australia, and the damaging footprint of that tourism.