Setting free the creek →

July 27, 2020 Amalie Wright

One of the many ways the existing drainage channel concrete has been reused - in this case, broken slabs line the low-flow channel, allowing day-to-day water flow and plant growth. Image: Alan Hoban.

Recently Alan Hoban from Bligh Tanner, and Amalie, spent time chatting about Small Creek with editor and journalist Maitiú Ward, for an article for Foreground.

The completed story can be read here.

Gathering →

July 31, 2016 Amalie Wright

" This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.”

Alice Waters

A few thoughts on the joy of inhabiting the public spaces of our cities.

File Under: I Wish I'd Thought of That →

April 3, 2016 Amalie Wright

We've all heard arty 'soundscapes' where someone's recorded their local garbage truck reversing and overlaid it over the screech of train brakes and pigeons cooing.

Design student Akko Goldenbeld wanted to test a different idea about the sounds of his city.

He make a giant pianola roll using a 3D plan of Eindhoven, connected it to a piano keyboard, and then proceeded to 'play' the sound of the city.

Click on the play button above or view the video here.

Maps of the Month

March 31, 2016 Amalie Wright

Favourite map finds this month:

The incredible detailed maps that record the location, extent and severity of all bomb damage in London during the Blitz. See the pictures in this story.
This new map - also incredibly detailed - documents sites from Iceland's folk tales and places where you might spy elves. There's a push on to have a new national park declared to protect many of these sites. Read more here.

Little People Play

March 29, 2016 Amalie Wright

Recently SBS television's Dateline programme ran a story on a Danish 'forest kindergarten', where kids are actively encouraged to run free, play with knives, climb high, explore fallen trees and more.

The show drew a huge audience response both here in Australia and overseas.

Click here to watch the episode.

In Seattle a man has been ordered to demolish part of a home in order to keep the crazy-ass playground he's built from recycled materials in the backyard.

Read the original article here.