On Gadigal Country, south of Sydney’s Central Business District, is a small inner-city suburb called Ultimo. Considering Ultimo as the intersection of multiple trajectories, we show how particular neoliberal narratives focused on growth and creativity influence the visibility of other stories and trajectories that also constitute this place. For instance, with its complex built environment, […]

The debate about place has long intersected with design studies. Our contribution to interdisciplinary design is to facilitate a dialogue between design and human geography. Grounded in Doreen Massey’s conceptualisation of place as the interrelations of diverse powers, processes and practices, this paper combines ethnographic methods and examples into a succinct place-based methodology for design […]