Street Furniture Australia presents at LPA Design Studios’ Summit

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 of a Chair begins with the 2016 ‘Backyard Experiment’ –  the largest research project Street Furniture Australia has done – and follows the evolution in the design of The Piatto Chair – the new outdoor seat that blurs the line between cafe chair and robust public domain seating,

June also shared our carbon neutral journey, the science based and meticulous measuring process we have undertaken over a period of five years to calculate our factory and organisational emissions, culminating in Street Furniture Australia becoming certified carbon neutral, through Climate Active.

The forensic investigations we carried out revealed which parts of our process are the most emissions heavy, and where we would achieve the greatest emissions reductions through changing our manufacturing processes year on year.  

Read more about our carbon neutral journey
Request a copy of our 2024 Climate Action White Paper
Book a climate action workshop for your office.

Read more about ‘The Backyard Experiment’ – an urban activation pop-up to introduce movable seating, with colour and yarn bombing to Garema Place, Canberra.