Merz: Tapping the Energy

Written with Paul Mutton. Merz is a new urban artist's village in the inner city suburb of Brompton, South Australia. Photos and drawings of the project.

Published December 1991

Solar Houses: an Introduction

Faced with these complexities, it is hardly surprising that many designers find the proto-type solar house to be a preferable starting point.

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

Res B: a Design Proposal for Brisbane

In Brisbane the older suburbs are distinctive and a prime source of identity for this sub-tropical city. The timber tradition has left us a rich heritage. For this proposal we have taken an existing suburb with houses on 800m2 blocks. The houses are simple single frontal address buildings.

Published December 1991

Meadows Under the Sea

The Seagrass Project has been cited as a model community arts project. Located in Hastings Victoria, the project has been documented on video and shown on television in Austria and Canada and could potentially achieve wide international exposure.

Published December 1991

Memories of Power

Placemaking in Newport, Geelong and North Carlton.

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

Supporting Remote Places

Published December 1991

Eco-design Conference at RMIT

Eco-design is probably one of the most far reaching topics to be assembled under the banner of one small hyphenated word. The linking of ecology with design is for many still a novel concept....conference held at RMIT 17 -19 October 1991.

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

Andy Goldsworthy: Everything in the City is Nature

British artist Andy Goldsworthy came to Australia for three weeks in July to work on site at Mount Victor Station east of the Flinders Ranges. During the 1992 Festival of Arts photographs of the works made at Mount Victor and an installation was shown at the Artspace at the Adelaide Festival Centre, a survey of past works was on show at Yarrabee and Goldsworthy produced a permanent work for the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

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