Landscape Architecture Australia

Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism

The bushfires during the Australian summer illustrated climate change in the most heartbreaking way. Most would find it impossible to forget the images – burned koalas sitting on blackened earth, firefighters driving directly into raging infernos and terrified holidaymakers stumbling through that eerie red dawn. While many still quarrel over the facts, no one can deny that we are living in a hotter, more unpredictable and politically destabilized world.

Innovators respond by developing technologies that allow us to continue our way of life as if nothing has really changed.

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