Issue 173 February 2022

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Noel Corkery is a registered landscape architect, AILA Fellow and Past National President, and a founding director of the newly established Landscape Foundation of Australia. Daniel Jan Martin is an environmental planner and designer based in Perth.
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The Biodiversity Issue
The year 2021 was a significant one – a year of setbacks and gains, revelations and compromises. In August, as this first issue for 2022 was being commissioned, the release of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment
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Delivering Biodiversity-positive Design
With one million of the world’s species under threat of extinction, the earth is now on course for a sixth mass extinction. That’s why in 2019 the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and the International Federation of Landscape Archi
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Noticeboard
The landscape architecture program at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has been awarded one of two special mentions in the International Landscape School’s Prize at the 11th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture held in Barcelona in O
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Making Space For Wildness In Australian Cities
As potential shorthand for biodiversity, the term “wildness” might suggest the sorts of spaces and places where the patterns and processes of species diversity and richness might continue to flourish, unhindered by human interference. However, as Bil
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Laying The Groundwork For Soil Biodiversity
Simon Leake, Australia’s pre-eminent soil expert, spoke with AKAS Landscape Architecture co-founder Alistair Kirkpatrick about the critical relationship between soil and vegetation, the problems with the commercial soil industry, and the plant and so
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Valuing Nature
If we came across a man who every day took a brick out of the walls of his house without considering that eventually the house would collapse, then we would be concerned about his mental state. Yet humans continue to consume and pollute the natural e
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Billilia And The Boomerang Billabong: Regenerative Landscape Approaches Through Country
Jock Gilbert and the RMIT Landscape Architecture program have been building a relationship with Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation (CMAC) through projects on Culpra Station since 2014. The projects arise from this relationship and aim to address the
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Adjacent Practices: Cultivating An Aesthetic Of Care For Design
Discussions around aesthetics have been given relatively little attention in landscape architecture discourse. Predominantly framed by the dominance of the visual, debates around aesthetics have often been limited to notions of the sublime, the beaut
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Restorative Effects
Brisbane is easing into its emerging urbanity somewhat hesitantly. The city has encouraged rapid development of its inner ring and CBD, including high-density commercial and residential development and, recently, the largescale infrastructure require
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Shifting Ecologies At The City Fringe
Australia is the only developed country in the world that is classified as a deforestation hotspot. Under Australia’s current policies, emissions will continue to rise, with devastating consequences for our landscapes and ecology.1 Land development a
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Botanical Pursuits
Rosie Halsmith – Could you tell me about yourself, and how you came to be a landscape architect? Robyn Barlow – I studied horticulture at the University of Melbourne’s Burnley campus. After that, I did garden maintenance and garden design. Then, I co
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Tomorrow’s trees today: Super Advanced Trees
As Australia’s largest supplier of Super Advanced Trees, Established Tree Transplanters (ETT) has learnt what the key markets are after and how to ensure that the best quality trees are available. Today’s landscape and garden sectors require advanced
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COP26: A Conference Of Compromise, Consensus, Or Cause For Hope?
On an unseasonably hot Melbourne spring day, tuned into the live stream, I watched on as landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom took her seat at the table. On a screen above the heads of world leaders, the United Nations Global Climate Action Award
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2021 Festival of Landscape Architecture
The title of the 2021 Festival of Landscape of Architecture, “Spectacle and Collapse: Changing Landscapes,” seemed somewhat ironic for a conference in relatively “normal” Perth to those of us watching on from cities still in lockdown. The relevance o
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A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy
In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its sixth report, warning us of the future we face based on the current climate trajectory. This warning is not new. For decades, scientists have repeatedly stated that carbon em
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A Black Swan event? Djirda Miya Island
Over its 40-year life, the Maali (black swan) bonds with one other partner. Younger Maali will breed several times a year, losing their white flight feathers each time, and gathering as a flightless flock to raise their young. Maali exchange roles. S

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