Earth-Sheltered Building using Timber

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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
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Katerina Teaiwa

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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

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Gallery Lane Cove
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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

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Sovereign Sight: Intersections of the historical archive and artistic practice—a curatorial perspective
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Kimberley Moulton

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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.

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Mundaring Community Park
Feature
Andra Kins

The Shire of Mundaring is a large semi rural locality in the hills of the Darling Scarp some 35 km east of Perth in Western Australia. Large areas of natural bushland including the John Forrest National Park and the catchment areas of the Mundaring Weir are to be found within its boundaries--- so are some fascinating sculptures and installations.

Published December 1991
First Australian Jewellery Biennial
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Stephanie Radok

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

Published December 1991
Working with Rules
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David Week

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
Backward Glance and A Sideways Glance
Review
John Barrett-Lennard

Exhibition review Backward Glance: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Western Australia
6 - 30 September 1991
A Sideways Glance: Galerie Dusseldorf
Western Australia
13 September - 6 October 1991

Published December 1991
First Australian Jewellery Biennial
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Gerry Wedd

Exhibition review First Australian Jewellery Biennial
Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre
Adelaide South Australia
October 1991

Published December 1991
New Life for Gordonvale
Feature
Carrie Bies

Written with June Fermo. Looks at the issues in a townscape project, faced by the community of Gordonvale 21 km south of Cairns in northern Queensland.

Published December 1991
Possessed
Review
Stephanie Radok

Exhibition review Possessed: Virginia Barratt, Simryn Gill, Richard Grayson, Michele Luke, Julienne Pierce, Steve Wigg
Bullring Jam Factory
South Australia
6 October - 3 November 1991

Published December 1991
Mudflats: A Fertile Breeding Ground for Artists
Feature
Charles Zuber

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
Red Gum, Red Light
Feature
David Cranswick

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

Published December 1991
Getting our Shit Together
Feature
Col James

There is a video which shows the noted Viennese artist Hundertwasser sitting on a bucket in his public home unit in Vienna City, uttering this exhortation. He then takes the bucket upstairs to a roof garden of sorts and dumps the contents into a compost bin.

Published December 1991
Gateways Project
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Chris Downie

..the response to a site was very much tied up with the way humans had mediated the experience. Yes trees and forests were sacred but that didn't mean that you couldn't touch them. Our mediation of course must be sensitive - be fearless yet thoughtful... Series of black and white photographs accompany the article.

Published December 1991
Built Form for Well-Being, Not Just Comfort
Feature
Emilis Prelgauskas

Looks at issues of energy self sufficiency -- battery banks and photovoltaic solar collector panels.

Published December 1991