Rosie Halsmith – Please introduce your practice and practice size.
Joel Barker – At See Design Studio we’re six in total, with two full-timers and four part-timers.
Greg Grabasch – I’m from Brave and Curious. We’re a collaborative of three. We all run our own practices [in different states], under the banner of Brave and Curious.
Jane Irwin – Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture (JILA) is a practice of six. We have three people working part-time and three people working full-time, as well as a part-time administrative person who comes in to do all the stuff that I’m really bad at. It’s always been my aim to keep the practice to a maximum of eight people.
Dan Plummer – At Plummer and Smith there are four of us, including one part-time.
Kaylie Salvatori – I’m director of COLA Studio. COLA is an acronym for Country Oriented Landscape Architecture. We’re a studio of three – myself, my partner Patrick [Campbell], who’s also my life partner, and his brother. It’s a small family business. Like Jane, I don’t envision us moving past eight people.
Marti Fooks – I founded my studio, Fooks, on the 8th of January this year. We are four people. I hope to get to a studio of about eight or nine people.
RH – Kaylie, your practice is relatively new – you opened within the last two years. In the context of your own life and practice, how do you define success? And how does this relate to the medium- and long-term goals for your life and practice?
KS – The definition of success morphs and changes with each project. When we started off, the vision was to do right by community and do right by Country, and as long as I’m feeling good about the decisions we’re making then I feel like we’re working in the right way.
