BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS
While working in northern Laos over a decade ago, I asked a local colleague to generate a simple business card to explain to officials (in the local dialect) that I was an Australian landscape architect with an interest in urban and land design and management. Later that month, when presenting my credentials and project findings to the minister in charge, my counterparts proudly announced that I was an international agricultural science expert! Therein lies one of the great challenges and contradictions of
