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Street Furniture Australia furnished the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture’s Festival: DARK, held in Nipaluna/Hobart from 19-21 October, with a collection of curated settings. This year’s installation featured a combination of Linea and Piatto ranges in a custom Lavender Mist powdercoat created especially for the Festival. Reflecting the Festival’s colour palette, the soft, on-trend lilac tone was paired with aluminium woodgrain in Curly Birch. Specifiers, let us know what you think of the colour. Design for GoodAs part of Street Furniture Australia’s annual Good Cause Giveaway at the AILA Festival, all of the furniture exhibited – valued at $45,000 – has been donated to local Tasmanian organisations selected by the Festival’s Creative Directorate: Miriam Shevland, Simone Bliss and Jerry de Gryse. This year’s recipients are: “As rewarding as it is …

The 2022 Festival of Landscape Architecture: COUNTRY will bring together Elders, Traditional Custodians and First Nations designers, artists and practitioners in conversation with landscape architects. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) event will run from 13-16 October at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in Magandjin (Brisbane). This year’s festival is curated by Blaklash Creative, LatStudios and Claudia Taborda as Creative Directors – they write: “It is critical for all involved in shaping urban environments to join with First Nations people to gain a deeper understanding of Country as we prepare our cities for the complex challenges of climate change.” The program therefore seeks to build “on the important work and ongoing conversations that have been happening within and adjacent to the discipline, about connecting to, caring for and …

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects will host a conference for landscape architects and public space professionals from October 13 to 16, 2021. The conference will take place in-person, in Perth, at Frasers Kings Park and online, with opportunities to learn, engage and connect with colleagues from across Australia and the globe. Street Furniture Australia is a proud partner and sponsor of the event. Register for your ticket at the AILA website. Seven picks from Street Furniture Australia 1. Spectacle and Collapse Program now available The Spectacle and Collapse Program is now available. An array of events will delve into the ideas of Spectacle: that people in today’s world are continually drawn to the new, and, Collapse: exploring new social, economic, cultural and ecological frameworks through design process and landscape …

Win seating from Street Furniture Australia for your charity project. Are you working on a project for a community in need? For this year’s AILA Festival, Street Furniture Australia would like to donate the conference break-out furniture – valued at more than $9000 – to a good cause. We are seeking a local Perth project that would appreciate a gift of freestanding or surface-fixed seating. Five of our premium Linea Seats, three 1-seaters and two 2-seaters, powder coated in the popular bright shades of Brilliant Yellow, Lycra Strip Green and Viper Green, are available. Please note the prize does not include delivery of the furniture, which will be from Kings Park, WA. The winner will be selected by a panel with representatives from the AILA National Executive, WA Chapter and …