Issue 175 August 2022

Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape architecture and urban design.

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Contributors
Daniel Jan Martin is an environmental planner and designer based in Perth. He teaches and researches at the University of Western Australia. Liam Mouritz is a landscape architect based in Perth on Whadjuk Noongar Country. He is a senior urban designe
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EMILY WONG KATELIN BUTLER NICCI DODANWELA, JOSH HARRIS, JUDE ELLISON CLAIRE MARTIN, DAN YOUNG, JULIAN RAXWORTHY, CATHERIN BULL, RHYS WILLIAMS, VANESSA MARGETTS, TIM FITZGERALD GORAN RUPENA JACINTA REEDY IAN CLOSE JANE WHEELER MARK SCRUBY MICHAEL POLL
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Why Does Research Matter?
Through my experience in private practice over many years, as a national director of AILA and as a PhD candidate, I have gained insight into the organizational, practice-related and academic value of two things: lifelong learning and evidence-based r
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Making Time For Reflection
Late last year, when we approached Daniel Jan Martin and Liam Mouritz to discuss the possibility of a guest-edited issue, we were very interested to see what kinds of questions landscape architects in different areas of practice were thinking about.
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An Issue On Time
In the opening article of this issue, Yuin Budawang woman Kaylie Salvatori speaks of how, in some Indigenous knowledges, “space and time are understood as one, or interchangeable.” For eons before, and eons to come, time is continuity, inherently int
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Look To The Skies, Think Like An Ancestor
My name is Kaylie Salvatori. I am a Yuin Budawang woman and Director of COLA Studio, living and working in Gundungurra – Dharug Country. Though my thoughts and experiences are likely shared by many Indigenous people, unless otherwise stated, the thou
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Ancient Landscapes, Remnant Landscapes
Here, we are in an ancient landscape suspended in time. We are on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar, the Country of the Whadjuk Noongar people. Cared for over generations. We could be hovering here a thousand years ago. Hues of flora – buttery, emerald, hazel
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An Unfolding Landscape: South Bank
To the casual visitor, a trip to the South Bank precinct is a visit to the heart of Brisbane and the best that life in Queensland offers. The lush, shady gardens and groves, the sunny lawns that overlook the CBD and the Brisbane River, the vivid boug
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Outback ecologies: Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
The Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden (AALBG) combines the natural arid zone ecosystems of the local area of Port Augusta with constructed garden ecologies from diverse arid zone ecosystems across Australia.1 The garden unfolds through a loose net
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Lo-fi landscapes: Estudi Martí Franch
E studi Martí Franch studio founder Martí Franch Batllori spoke with Alex Breedon and Liam Mouritz about slowness, resourcefulness and experimentation in his landscape architecture practice; maintenance as a design practice; and site engagement possi
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Centring Ecological Regeneration: APACE
The year was 1982. The town of North Fremantle was in the process of turning from an industrial port town into ’80s suburbia. A book by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher questioning material wealth’s impact on human culture and happiness
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Notes From The Margins
Matthew Gandy is a cultural, urban, and environmental geographer with particular interests in landscape, infrastructure and biodiversity. His books include Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City, The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, a
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Slow growth: Australian Botanic Gardens Shepparton
Not all parks get built in a year. The Australian Botanic Gardens Shepparton is still in its infancy after twenty. It’s slow growth, but growth well-fuelled by community power, the project’s nature as a botanic garden, strategic moves over many years
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Making Time In Practice
A fundamental wonder of landscape, time engenders the cycles of life; growth and decay; light and dark; interconnectedness; patience and dedication. As landscape architects, the subject of our work is living, growing, and evolving. We rely on time fo
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Remaking Lost Connections
Gondwana Link is a landscape restoration project that protects and reconnects habitat across 1,000 kilometres in Western Australia’s south-west. This region, classified as a global biodiversity hotspot, is home to an ancient ecology with more than 7,
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Wonder Of Time
When animal life first attempted to make a go of it on this planet more than half a billion years ago, it lurched, sputtered and died. In a favourable climate still warming from the last ice age, weird sponge-like animals emerged on the drop-off at A
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Re-envisioning Climate Futures
Humanity faces an urgent challenge to redesign our communities, including buildings, neighbourhoods, parks and infrastructure, to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts. How can we develop novel responses situated within the here and now, that
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Between Action And Forgetting: Balls Head Reserve
Balls Head juts south into Sydney Harbour from the sleepy lower-north-shore suburb of Waverton. The body of the headland is formed of the city’s ur-material of weeping sandstone, its stony armature cloaked beneath an impressive canopy until it tumble

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