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Posted on July 24, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

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 […]

Posted on June 19, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Place and Meaning: A Critical Discussion

Essential Questions Who is a dweller? What is PLACE, as opposed to SPACE? Where Is PLACE? How do we recognize, or facilitate PLACE? Why is the concept of PLACE important? What is PLACE making? 1. Who is a dweller? A dweller knows, feels and remembers a place intimately. Dwellers are people who inhabit an area […]

Posted on June 19, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

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. […]

Posted on June 19, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Moment in the Sun: Greg O’Shea and Gold Coast Modernism

Gold Coast is a city infatuated with its image. It is the Miami Vice jostling with BrisVegas in the Sunshine State. Bold and brash, the sky is not the limit in Gold Coast City. The city embraced height from its early days and this coincided with Modernism as it washed over our shores from America […]

Posted on June 13, 2018August 1, 2019 John Mongard

Placemaking for Centres

Centres are the heart of our shared living places. place theory and experiential design processes can be harnessed to connect centres to their landscape and people.

Posted on June 13, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Placemaking – Theory and Process

Placemaking is fundamental to how we make and see the world. Placemaking processes acknowledge that to walk in the shoes of a dweller is to be in place. Vibrant Towns of the Scenic Rim is an award winning regional strategy to add vibrancy to rural towns. This presentation is a snapshot of the strategies used […]

Posted on June 13, 2018July 21, 2019 John Mongard

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.

Posted on June 13, 2013July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Unfolding space

How a space unfolds into a place is a mystery. What ingredients are required to make our cities valued? We go about our daily lives and the things we touch and feel remind us of who we are and where we belong. For most of us the things we care about are actually small and […]

Posted on June 13, 2013July 21, 2019 John Mongard

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 […]

Posted on June 13, 2011July 21, 2019 John Mongard

Landscape Eco-retrofitting

Eco-retrofitting the landscape begins with acknowledgement that sites always have existing cultural and ecological frameworks.