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

Mundaring Community Park

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

Restored to Life with a Bypass

Landscape art by Roger Noakes and Flightpath.

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

The Re-humanising of Water

Ecologically sustainable development is a stated aim of our national and state governments. Unless we can stimulate a higher and more sustained level of discussion on what this means, our progressis likely to remain fitful and unfocussed. Hopefully this article will stimulate the debate!

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

Women's Ideal Environments

It seems clear enough that women feel loss and the lack at the heart of the consumer society. But the creation of other riches, even in imagination, is hard to achieve....We need nevertheless to imagine other worlds, other ways - all of us- in order to sustain hope and inform desire.

Published December 1991

Aleks Danko: Day In Day Out

Two recent shows in Melbourne of installations by Alex Danko have investigated issues indirectly referring to architecture and the private and social body within the Australian environment.

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

Further Reading and Glossary

Selected book list with notes. Includes a glossary of terms including acronyms.

Published December 1991

Supporting Remote Places

Published December 1991

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