Landscape Foundation of Australia (LFA) announces fund recipients for 2025 Landscape Performance Case Studies (LPCS)
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AILA NSW led a foreshore walk on Gadigal land for visiting US and Interstate landscape architects, guests of Street Furniture Australia and our US partner Spruce & Gander.
David Martin says partnerships are the best way to ensure urban green infrastructure is prioritised - for housing, health and a changing climate.
In an interview with MassivArt, Founder of Ready for Access, Shay Erlich, says accessibility can be a stimulus to elevate public space.
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.
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 …
