This book took me a lot longer to read than I expected. Not because it is in any way a drag, but because it is many strolls rather than an epic journey. It’s a bit like a really delicious box of  very rich chocolates that you dip into rather than eating all at once. I […]

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and abroad, and their continuing connection to culture, community, land, sea and sky. I pay my respect to Elders past, present and future. This ‘reading’ is actually listening to an interview recorded as part of the ABC series ‘Conversations’ with Richard Fidler. ‘The Secret History of […]

Home Gardens of Haberfield sought to explore the nexus between gardens, place-making and senses of belonging and community and to document gardening practices. Our methodology for this project included iterative walks to help us identify human and non-human participants and issues of concern. As we walked we also documented gardens and streetscapes with photography, and […]

Indonesian Australian Design Futures is a project that brings together designers, design writers, design teachers and design thinkers from Indonesia and Australia to work on sustainable futures. The project website is here. Sasirangan in Banjarmasin A Jamu Stroll Walking with Anitha Silvia Chickens, Aquaponics, and tree planting in Central Jakarta: an interview with Fergus Jensen 2016, […]

A guest post by Jade Ella Trapp. Jade is a naturopath and midwife living sometimes in the NSW town of Lismore and other times in Central Java.  She developed an interest in jamu when she first moved to Java as a student in 2000. A late afternoon stroll through the heavily concreted inner-city suburb of […]

This is a book for travelers and observers of the world, especially people who are drawn to the challenges and contradictions of cities. Cities included are Hong Kong, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris and San Francisco, but author Kirsten Seale begins in Sydney, at the markets with which she is most familiar. The messy, kitsch, and undeniably atmospheric Paddy’s Market offers a great starting point to pose the deceptively simple question ‘What is a market?’