Landscape Architecture Australia, August 2022
Landscape Architecture AustraliaMatters of Time
One of the most biodiverse landscapes in the world extends through Perth’s eastern suburbs. As development encroaches, a strategy for design together with conservation is vital.
Since the World Expo in 1988, Brisbane’s South Bank has evolved into a successful urban precinct, providing lessons about the risks and opportunities of landscape development over time.
At the heart of North Fremantle community, not-for-profit organization APACE is foregrounding an approach to the environment that fosters ecological and community resilience, embraces change and gives natural systems room to move.
This under-appreciated garden on the edge of the South Australian desert is a remarkable story of community-driven landscape architecture that foregrounds the extraordinary plant life of arid and semi-arid ecosystems.
Time is a crucial dimension of both landscapes and design, yet our projects are often restricted by limited timelines, static modes of representation and fixed outcomes. How can a richer engagement with time transform our modes of practice?
In Australia’s south-west, an ambitious landscape restoration project seeks to undo some of the damage of 200 years of land clearing, strengthening social and ecological networks and linking isolated islands of biodiversity.
Working alongside Adnyamathanha knowledge holders and NASA-funded scientists, design practice Brave and Curious has delivered a network of projects across the Flinders Ranges that will help preserve and present internationally significant fossils dating back half a billion years.
Across from the never-realized modernist utopia of Blues Point, the seemingly untouched bushland of Balls Head Reserve belies a story that is less about preservation than it is about concerted, collective creation.
By contrast with Western linear concepts of time, many Indigenous knowledge systems understand space and time as interconnected and cyclical, marked by cues from the land, the seas and the skies.
Present actions around climate change tend to focus on preserving what currently exists. Alexander Felson makes the case for a more holistic approach that positions near-term actions within long term thinking.
The work of Catalonia-based interdisciplinary design practice Estudi Martí Franch proposes “response-able” landscapes that can change and adapt to different temporalities and scales.
Pathbreaking urbanist and geographer Matthew Gandy explores unusual spaces at the margins of cities, where ecological, topographical and historical perspectives collide.
The August 2022 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia guest edited by Daniel Jan Martin and Liam Mouritz reflects on the relationship between time, landscape and design.
On a landfill site in regional Victoria, a botanic gardens masterplan has unfurled over decades, its many layers shaped and maintained by a committed community of volunteers and advocates.
A message from AILA National Director Katharina Nieberler-Walker
“Matters of Time” guest editors Daniel Jan Martin and Liam Mouritz reflect on the relationship between time, landscape and design.