Architecture
Arts & Culture
Remembering and forgetting the dead
Ancient Celtic Halloween – or All Hallow’s Eve – was a day to acknowledge the dead. Modern rituals of marking death continue this tradition, both remembering and letting go
Environment
Informal settlements are where cities are made
Far from the superficial notion of ‘slums’, informal settlements shape urban development across most of the world’s cities
Environment
Book extract
The Indigenous cultural knowledges co-designing campuses
Universities are often catalysts for change. A new book explores modern Australian university campuses, focusing on the increasing role of Country and Indigenous co-design
Health & Medicine
Lost in space: Open-plan classrooms can leave children adrift
Middle years primary-school students are at risk of academic delay when learning in an open-plan classroom
Politics & Society
The future of our public housing towers
Instead of demolishing Melbourne’s ageing public housing towers, clever refurbishments could save millions of dollars and provide high-quality public housing
Environment
Design for (all) life
Humans create most designs for themselves, but can and should use opportunities to make spaces that benefit all forms of life
Environment
Lifting standards in Victoria’s building industry
Victoria’s regulatory system leaves home-buyers vulnerable, but the Government has an opportunity to raise the bar for builders
Business & Economics
Every Sherlock needs a Watson (or two)
Creatives often need colleagues to be catalysts, but how can organisations identify and foster these catalysts – and can too much become cataclysmic?
Environment
New design tech offers hope for urban wildlife
Designers and ecologists are working together to reimagine cities as more-than-human places
Arts & Culture
Conserving Melbourne’s creative heritage
With Melbourne’s historic Nicholas Building on the market, we need to rethink the city’s urban heritage to conserve places that have played an exceptional role in our local history