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With so much to see at the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture, here are our recommendations for a street furniture experience.   1.  Flower Chairs Designed by former UNSW student Joshua Flowers, three Flower Chair prototypes will feature on the lawn of the National Gallery of Australia during the conference. Venture out from Gandell Hall in session breaks to test this variation on the movable seat: chairs that swivel to your preferred viewpoint. With a design originally inspired by Google office furniture, the seat aims to give people a reason to stop and become involved in public space. WIN $200 worth of flowers from Interflora for someone you love. Post a selfie with a Flower Chair to facebook.com/streetfurniture for your chance to win. Winner will be announced shortly after the festival. Read more on …

Josh Flowers, a second-year student in bachelor of industrial design at UNSW, is the winner of the 2013 Sense of Place design competition. The competition is a collaboration between Street Furniture Australia and the university’s industrial design program. The Sense of Place brief challenged the students to consider the theory of ‘placemaking’ in urban design, says Dr Mariano Ramirez, a senior lecturer in industrial design at UNSW “This is essentially about giving people a reason to stop and become involved in a public space,” he says. Flowers will now undertake an internship with Street Furniture Australia to bring his design, the Flower Chair, from sketch to commercialisation. Flowers says, “The design work of Street Furniture Australia has helped shape the environment I grew up in. To be acknowledged by them …