Thursday, June 17th, 2010
a group of about twenty AILA members toured the nearly completed Boggo Road Urban Village at Dutton Park with Project Designers Stephen White and Dominic Powell (Tract) with the intention being to gain an understanding of the design challenges arising from the conversion of a historical gaol precinct into a contempory transport–orientated research and commercial hub.This development is being project-managed by the Department of Public Works, on behalf of the Queensland Government.
The Boggo Road Urban Village will be a unique, mixed-use area including residential, retail, commercial, environmental research and recreational facilities. Its aim is to connect people to the future, the past, our city and each other.
for more - link to the AILA Qld web site
Ashley Nicholson
Student Landscape Architect
QUT
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
The AILA National Conference in Melbourne will be using the Australian Landscape Principles as the basis for the discussions on the future of professional practice. The Australian Landscape Principles have been developed as a strategic response to this issue, based on respect for the inherent and measurable values of landscape when developing planning, design and management strategies for climate change adaptation in our natural and built environments.
At least one practice will be interrogating their own practice for their presentation at the conference and discussing the issues of ethics in their decision making and in their project work.
The question for all members: Have you conducted such an assessment recently? Have you any thoughts on conducting this kind of in-house study? or any other comments on the future of the profession and the use of the Landscape Principles ?
Look forward to your comments.
Paul Costigan
AILA Executive Director
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Hello ex-QUT students and lecturers BAS/BBE(LA) 1989-91 and GDLA 1993-94!!!
Former student, Walter Van Der Loo is travelling from far flung Perth to attend the AILA national conference in Melbourne in May and thinks it’s about time for a catch-up with former uni buddies.
Anyone interested in getting together to reminisce the old days and generally catch-up and have a larf can contact Walter on walter.vanderloo@edaw.com
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Clearly, it’s a special experience to come away from an exhibition feeling excited and that you have learnt something.
It’s even more so when the exhibition is a landscape students’ graduation exhibition!
It’s so exciting to see projects that amaze and challenge all of us.
Truly, there is not a shadow of doubt that these students will set a cracking pace in many directions for landscape architecture. These comments were prompted after I saw Switch 08, the University of Adelaide’s Masters of Landscape Architecture and Masters of Architecture exhibition.
Common Ground by Johnny McIntyre, proposes a new engagement process with aboriginal communities that considers how by listening, balancing opinions and being respectful, new planning and design outcomes can be achieved.
Breathing Space and Circulation of the Landscape by Amy Smith and Amelia Brereton, both deal with the plight of the Murray Lakes and the Coorong.
These projects consider how human intervention and engineering can be mediated through landscape design processes to create sustainable environments for the future.
Jason Avery’s Skinscape used the healing properties of the flesh as an intriguing metaphor for the repair of the scarred landscapes of regional Wallaroo.
International projects range from the redevelopment of Copenhagen harbour and the creation of new suburbs for Singapore to the islands of Hong Kong with Dandelion, Xin Xin Yu’s sensitive adaptation of Tai O Island through a study of seasonal changes that affect the environmental, social and cultural ebb and flow of the land.
Su Sien Wong proposed an exciting ‘exit strategy’ for the Royal Adelaide Hospital, while maintaining the vitality and urban fabric of the East End. Marion Chan challenged the conventional wisdom of the Adelaide Hills Face Zone in response to the current urban sprawl and future demand for housing in South Australia.
Adelaide 2018 by Alex Game, illustrated the potential for Adelaide to host the Commonwealth Games and how this event could be used a catalyst for the creation of a new urban context for the City. [I won’t offer any comment about the architectural students’ projects].
There is definitely something special happening amongst the landscape students at Adelaide Uni, and mention should be made of staff members: Tanya Court (Coordinator Landscape Architecture Program), Warwick Keats and Prof Nancy Pollock-Ellwand.
damien mugavin
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Hello AILA folk!
We are considering the marketability of a Graduate Certificate (4 units or subjects) in Conservation of Historic Landscapes, or something similar.
I know I would love be involved in teaching it! Is anyone interested in studying it?
I trained at the University of York (MA-Conservation Studies 1990) which has informed my practice as a heritage consultant and a teacher. Professor Gini Lee has joined us here at QUT and we would be the chief staff involved, with special appearances by other QUT staff as needed.
I envisage lots and lots of expert guest lecturers which was the model at York. We want to make it solidly practical with an emphasis on conservation plans prepared through design studios investigating REAL historic landscapes.
Interested anyone?
Dr. Jeannie Sim, QUT, Brisbane.
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