The Art of Living Sustainably

Written with Andrew Bryan The increasing urgency for us to achieve a harmonious relationship with the environment is stimulating artists in many media and designers in a range of disciplines to work in new ways with one another and community groups who share this concern.

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On Empowering Clients and Collaborative Design Processes

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Acoustic Futures. Sound Noise and Urban Design

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Further Reading and Glossary

Selected book list with notes. Includes a glossary of terms including acronyms.

Deborah White

Red Gum, Red Light

David Cranswick's work in Perspecta 1991 entitled Constructing Nature was one of the most successful and moving of the Western Sites Component.

David Cranswick

Material Re-Creation

A new paradigm of design is starting to emerge as a result of the efforts of those members of the design community who are concerned with the extent, as well as the underplaying, of our global environmental crisis.

Tony Fry

Review of the Year

Exhibition review Reflections on a year of contemporary art in Tasmania.

Sean Kelly

Mudflats: A Fertile Breeding Ground for Artists

Mudflat arts believes that the landscape is not there to be painted so much as to be protected. The role has changed from one of passive painter to active member of the community.

Charles Zuber

First Australian Jewellery Biennial

Exhibition review Manifest Destiny: Ian North Vast: David Stephenson Contemporary Art Centre South Australia 14 September - 6 October 1991

Stephanie Radok

Gilding the Lillipilli

Tree decorating was revived in Melbourne as part of the larger Treeproject. Looks at some of the issues faced with mounting such an event.

Maggie McLeod

Artists and the Mt Leuseur Campaign

Artist's involvement in the Mt Lesueur Campaign -- 200 km north of Perth, Western Australia.

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Look See. Gnarogin Park

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Ross Donaldson

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