Rob Adams: balancing density + quality of life
21 June 2010
Rob Adams: balancing density + quality of life

Rob Adams presents a plan for increas­ing dens­ity and improv­ing qual­ity of life in Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia: the good news is that major change can be gentle, and that the future looks familiar.

Night Lights in Auckland
24 May 2010
Night Lights in Auckland

Spot­ted giant shadow pup­pets? Your eyes weren’t deceiv­ing you. YesYesNo at work (and at play) on the walls of the Auck­land Ferry Building.

Video: Informalism inspires with activist architecture
18 May 2010
Video: Informalism inspires with activist architecture

Hugo Moline takes us on a tour of community-created hous­ing across our region, and intro­duces us to Sydney’s Kapit-bahayan Filipino hous­ing co-operative, a poten­tial model for a medium-density city.

Work-Life: how can art unite a community?
10 May 2010
Work-Life: how can art unite a community?

How can art bring com­munit­ies together? Work-Life explores this ques­tion, using the unique cul­tural melt­ing pot of Singa­pore as a rich start­ing point for discussion.

Video mapping Jakarta: history through technology
27 April 2010
Video mapping Jakarta: history through technology

Watch the 3D video map­ping pro­jec­ted onto the Jakarta His­tory Museum, in front of an audi­ence of thou­sands, telling the story of Jakarta from swamp set­tle­ment to metropolis.

Designers at play: tracking trains
23 April 2010
Designers at play: tracking trains

Design­ers around the region are pick­ing up on the play­ful pos­sib­il­it­ies that lie in the struc­tures and signs around us. Yiy­ing Lu and zeroperzero are let­ting their ima­gin­a­tions loose on sub­way maps…