Living Classroom Unfolds
The Living Classroom has built an amazing system of waterways and forests to provide water and biodiversity at the regenerative farm.
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Climate ideas and actions for Kurilpa Precinct
How can the West End neighbourhood in Brisbane city plan for climate change from the ground up? Several hundred designers and planners workshopped ideas with residents in 2019. These ideas have been further brainstormed by Kurilpa Futures community group in 2020. The resulting ideas form a compelling and practical list of actions for both community […]
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2 Degrees: Design for Climate Adaptation
How can communities and government collaborate to shift our places toward the shifting climate? For an explanation on the reasons why we need to act now and not later, read “2 Degrees: Up Close and Personal” by John Mongard. For a way to engage and create collaborative action at the neighbourhood scale, download “2 Degrees: […]
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2 degrees: up close and personal
When young people protest on the street and tell us that we are destroying their future due to our failure to act on climate change, we know we have really ignored all the signs. Who cares about climate change? We are numb to the issue because we are daunted by its size and extent. We […]
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The Green Space Strategy
The big idea in our strategy is that we can reclaim at least 11 hectares of unused public spaces to create the public realm that the community needs now and into the future. This space is available now on unused road reserves and crown lands within the peninsula and should be used to build the […]
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The parsley, the pig and the farm
Is it a myth that Australia’s cities are amongst the most liveable in the world? That tag may be true for the lucky people who live within a 10 kilometre radius of each city. All our ‘sustainable’ cities are quite nice within their core. Outside of that core we appear to have failed to make […]
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Plain Land: Killing Places Slowly
Welcome to Plainland. Plainland is on a plain designated for the growth of Brisbane. It has a shopping centre off the highway and sits amongst the cows of surrounding grazing land. Plainland is plain: the cost of house and land dictate it. A bold entry statement and a path to the shops are civic flourishes. […]
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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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Dis location – Survival of the local
The marketplace is clearly failing the landscapes and the towns we live in. Australian country towns are dying as the global economy seeks to extract the cheapest goods in the cheapest location. We live in a very large island with a small population and with inbuilt inefficiencies of distance and time to markets. Our standard […]
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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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