Published 01 September 2020
Published September 2020
Placemaking in Newport, Geelong and North Carlton.
Exhibition review First Australian Jewellery Biennial Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre Adelaide South Australia October 1991
Published December 1991
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
Looks at issues of energy self sufficiency -- battery banks and photovoltaic solar collector panels.
This issue of Artlink tries to flag some of the issues for designers in Australia today, and to document just some of the changes which are happening.
New Zealand is not only snake less and nuclear free but also has a tradition of earth buildings. In pre European times, Maori utilised the ground's insulating properties by partially sinking thatched roofed houses into the ground.
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.
"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...."
Australia's capital shows the way in applying sustainability to a city.
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.
That the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia are part of the world thought is evidenced by Wonambi, the Rainbow Serpent....
It never gets really cold in the Top End. But it does get very humid during the Wet. However, simple steps in house design can make the house comfortable and you don't need fans and air conditioners.
