Jury comment
This project demonstrates the transformative outcomes that can be achieved through creative and authentic collaborations between landscape architects and local communities. Inglenooks comprises two small pocket parks and a connecting footpath. Despite its small scale, the project demonstrates significant strategic thinking and impact. The jury commends the project’s innovative approach to engagement; throughout the design process and through its constructed outcomes, the project has fostered a high level of community investment in the precinct and formed a range of new connections within Inglewood. The project also demonstrates leadership in its inventive approaches to funding and its overall framing as an advocacy initiative, promoting further council investment in community landscapes and the leadership of landscape architects. The design developed around the two spaces and the connecting streetscape thoughtfully considers ways the space might be modified (by food trucks and night markets, adjacent businesses and community programming) and the project’s impact is already evident. Inglenooks demonstrates how community-driven public spaces can benefit from the leadership of landscape architects.
Inglenooks is located in Inglewood, Western Australia on the land of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people.
Project credits
Design practice Four Landscape Studio Collaborators Inglewood on Beaufort; Ligna Construction; Festoon Lighting Hire Perth; George Dinagudy (artist); Anya Brock (artist) Photographers Four Landscape Studio; Inglewood on Beaufort
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