Supporting Remote Places

Published December 1991

Getting our Shit Together

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

Designing from the Inside Out: Women, Design and Architecture

'Choose a woman architect - there is a difference!' proclaim a multitude of stickers all over Sydney. Constructive Women, the Sydney based association of Women Architects and Planners decided it was time for a new approach.

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

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.

Published December 1991

Lindy Lee Paintings

Exhibition review Lindy Lee - paintings
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide South Australia
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

Look See. Gnarogin Park

The headbutting syndrome which is normally associated with the oppositional mental locations of the engineering versus the environmental are here reconciled in the combined communities' new park. It should become their most treasured recreational amenity. Located two hours south of Perth, Western Australia.

Published December 1991

The Art of Living

The place Ecopolis 2, the world's first ecocity. The time -- mid-afternoon 3rd November 2007.

Published December 1991

Community Architecture: High on People Power, Low on Fossil Fuels

Gregory Burgess and Associates are a remarkable architectural practice which places high value on the collaborative design process with clients and users as well as low energy use now has three major community projects to its credit...

Published December 1991

Wildflowers in Art

Exhibition review Wildflowers in Art
Art Gallery of Western Australia
October 1991

Published December 1991

Aspects of Earth Building in New Zealand

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.

Published December 1991