Trend Watch November 2024
A new UK report into 'Highway Greening - Best Practice and Lessons Learnt' by LDA Designs, and UN-Habitat produces a Toolkit to improve our public spaces that encourages community engagement.
- 20 nov 2024
TANIA JUSTICE | Business Development Manager, NSW
tjustice@streetfurniture.com
02 8774 8888
What inspires you?
Beautiful coastal walks, textures, colours, creative design, all things French! I love working on a project from the initial discussions on how to bring a space to life with table settings or cleverly thought out bundles, and planters for greenery and shade with our new ChillOUT Trees, to bring a community together and enhance the space. It’s wonderful to see the options available by creating renders to be able to visualise the space and then finally seeing the finished project in situ is very rewarding.
Your favourite product and why?
It is hard to choose a favourite from the range, I have to say both Aria and Linea are equally on the top of my list. The Aria range offers a modular furniture system that works so well across places to relax, work, dine or play and the new Linea range is sleek and minimalist in sturdy stainless steel frame.
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A new UK report into 'Highway Greening - Best Practice and Lessons Learnt' by LDA Designs, and UN-Habitat produces a Toolkit to improve our public spaces that encourages community engagement.
June Lee Boxsell spoke to landscape architects and engineers about Australian innovation and climate action at the recent LPA Design Studio summit in Irvine, California. Another wonderful collaboration with our US distributor partner Spruce and Gander. Using analogous insight, June drew parallels between the collaborative relationship of industrial designers and engineers at Street Furniture Australia to the very similar relationship between landscape architects and civil engineers at LPA Design Studio. During an hour long interactive presentation, June demonstrated the critical interactions and back and forth between design and engineering teams, from early inspiration and market research, through design, material testing, prototyping and the many rounds of product testing prior to going to market. To illustrate our process for designing and manufacturing furniture, June shared The Story of a Chair. The Story …
Designers Elisapeta Heta, Jade Kake and Raukura Turei on Kaupapa Māori design for climate Ataria Sharman, editor of Assemble Papers, connects with three designers to explore Kaupapa (way) Māori as a solution to our climate crises. Principal at Jasmax, Elisapeta Heta speaks of ‘climate resilience’ and ‘sustainability’ as Pākehā or white terms, preferring ‘kaitiakitanga’ (meaning guardianship), as a better way of looking at our relationship to our natural environment. An Indigenous approach to design is about the kaitiakitanga, understanding that all of life is connected and that humans are not superior to the natural world, we are part of it. Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) brings land and life together rather than separating them. Sharman writes, “Kaitiakitanga projects offer a more holistic approach, such as understanding people as part of the land …