Subject/ Object

Exhibition review Subject/Object Arthouse
Tasmania
October 1991

Published December 1991

Memories of Power

Placemaking in Newport, Geelong and North Carlton.

Published December 1991

Artworkers On the Urban Frontier

Australian cities cannot continue to grow in the manner to which we've become accustomed. The environmental, social and economic costs are simply too great. There needs to be a qualitative change to the way we build and live in them.

Published December 1991

Acoustic Futures. Sound Noise and Urban Design

Our town planners, our architects and we ourselves need to rethink the city. If downtown spaces, internal and external, are to become inhabitable, there needs to be a dramatic shift away from narrowly architectural conception of them and their functions towards an acoustic analysis.

Published December 1991

Supporting Remote Places

Published December 1991

The Essential Gift of Ceremonies: Towards a Poetics of Scarcity

"In modern architecture we find difficulty in managing the relation between the physical presence of a building and its intimations of the mental and spiritual. Our architectural objects rarely serve as objects of intermediation between the ordinary, the physical and the present on the one hand, and the mystical, the spiritual and the abstract on the other...."

Published December 1991

Earth-Sheltered Building using Timber

Earth sheltered housing is not new. The most common way of keeping the soils at bay has been with reinforced concrete and masonry walls and roofs.

Published December 1991

Willmot Playspace Project

Willmot Play Space has taken place over a four year period and has involved the conversion of a disused football field inot a community park.

Published December 1991

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.

Published December 1991

Exponential Losses, Collective Guilt: The Work of Jeannie Baker

Change, and how it effects the evironment and the quality of life, is a recurring theme and metaphor in the work of artist Jeannie Baker. While celebrating the beauty and fragility of the environment she delivers a provocative and powerful message about our responsibilities towards the natural world.

Published December 1991

Working with Rules

We all use rules. By looking at them critically we will precipitate a dynamic evolution in our understanding and practice of designing 'with the environment'.

Published December 1991

Creating Livable Places

Affecting one's city, state or country requires wit, wisdom opportunity and a sense of fun. Robert McNulty, President of the extraordinarily successful Washington based 'Partners for Livable Places' gives a thumb-nail sketch of the last 15 years of the organisation and some of the tools they have used as operational forces for action.

Published December 1991