Future Suburbs
How will the suburbs become more sustainable and caring in the future? Place theory and engagement processes, as well as experiential design are ways to bring placemaking into the suburbs.
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Landscape Eco-retrofitting
Eco-retrofitting the landscape begins with acknowledgement that sites always have existing cultural and ecological frameworks.
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Feeding, Greening, Caring
The challenge for designers in this moment of change is to re-conceptualise people as citizens rather than consumers, to place value on civic life and to create a shared democratic citizenship. This paper focuses on three important actions required to achieve a more ethical public realm: feeding/greening/caring. 1 MB PDF
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Making Great Places – PIA Talk, Adelaide, 2005
Introduction The aim of this talk is to firstly convince you that we, as place makers, need to embrace a much more participatory way of building place, if we are to live in a more sociable future. Participatory design is relevant in the city, in the suburbs and in the country and leads us to […]
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Where is the collective landscape
Landscape character in the public realm is hard to define. Vaness Berry, Kim Calio, Megan Lawler and John Mongard ask how do you plan for a collective character, when it is an amalgam of perceptions, values and feelings carried around by communities of diverse people? 1.4 MB PDF
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Lap Pool for Hamilton Residence
The design focuses the backyard around a lap pool which has the feel of a long, luxuriant bathing terrace in a tradition going back to ancient Persia.
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