With so much to see at the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture, here are our recommendations for a street furniture experience.
1. Flower Chairs
Designed by former UNSW student Joshua Flowers, three Flower Chair prototypes will feature on the lawn of the National Gallery of Australia during the conference.
Venture out from Gandell Hall in session breaks to test this variation on the movable seat: chairs that swivel to your preferred viewpoint. With a design originally inspired by Google office furniture, the seat aims to give people a reason to stop and become involved in public space.
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Inspired by the research of William Whyte, #BackyardExperiment uses time-lapse video to observe how people interact with public space, and movable seats.
Visit Garema Place to experience this community-built pop-up park in person, survey the 60 movable seats and form some hypotheses about how the space will perform over its 8-day installation.
The time-lapse film will be made available shortly after the festival, showing how many people visited the park, how they interacted with seats and how they really do behave in public space.
Built by the community for the community, enjoy free wifi, interactive street art, free wifi, plenty of movable seats, a pop-up library, pavers painted by local art students and trees decorated by yarn bombers.
The park is designed by Context and furnished by Street Furniture Australia, with support from AILA and In The City Canberra.
An opportunity for AILA Fellows to connect at the National Gallery of Australia’s Sculpture Garden on October 29, featuring an all-female speaker line-up led by new AILA board member Linda Corkery FAILA.
Graduate and AILA Fresh NSW Chair Brinlee Pickering will be in conversation with Jacinta McCann, FAILA, FASLA, LEED AP and Executive Vice President of AECOM.
Based in San Francisco, Jacinta leads AECOM’s design, planning and economic practices globally. She was honoured in 2014 by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the 100 most influential business women in the Bay Area.
Proudly sponsored by Street Furniture Australia and WE-EF LIGHTING.
Jane Irwin Landscape Architects and Integral Lighting present a tour of the new grand boulevard on the night of October 29.
Hill Thalis partnered with Street Furniture Australia to design a suite of custom benches, seats, tables, bin enclosures and drinking fountains especially for Constitution Avenue, featuring touches of brass.
Chris Goris, National Sales Manager with Street Furniture Australia, will join the tour to speak about the design process.
The night showcases LED lighting with WE-EF luminaires illuminating the avenue and the Australian flag on City Hill, concluding at the beautifully lit #BackyardExperiment in Garema Place.
A pop-up park by landscape architecture firm Context and Street Furniture Australia, #BackyardExperiment transforms the plaza for the Festival.
The Street Furniture Australia factory, in Regents Park, Western Sydney, is both a manufacturing hub and R&D studio for our Australian-designed and made street furniture products. We run fun and informative group events for customers throughout the year, to share how products are designed, tested and built, and the latest products and projects. Director of Tract Julie Lee said: “It was a great opportunity for our team to look behind the scenes and understand the innovation, research and climate positive outcomes Street Furniture Australia is focusing on. Thank you for having us!” Place Design Group Associate, Liam Isaksen, said: “The factory tour is a fun experience to learn about the design and manufacturing process of public furniture we use in landscape architecture design. Seeing the work behind the scenes and …
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Street Furniture Australia has designed and built prototype charging stands as part of a Transport for NSW program to deliver free phone chargers at 15 Sydney train stations. Developed by Street Furniture Australia’s inhouse industrial designers in collaboration with Transport for NSW, the prototypes offer wireless, USB-A and USB-C charging, and can power 7 devices at once. They were built at the Street Furniture Australia factory in Western Sydney. Two Power Spots are now installed at Liverpool and Campbelltown stations. The $1 million Power Spots Project rollout to 15 transport hubs including Bankstown, Hurstville, Lidcombe, Penrith, Wynyard, Central, Town Hall and Bondi Junction will be completed by late 2024. NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen said the Power Spots provide peace of mind: “In the modern world, our phones are our …
***** Click here for final results of #BackyardExperiment ***** #BackyardExperiment is our most ambitious research project yet. Collaborating with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Street Furniture Australia will attempt to activate Garema Place in Canberra through a pop-up park and 60 movable seats. Garema Place was a cosmopolitan hotspot in the sixties and seventies, but has since become a deserted thoroughfare. The open space is largely concrete and underused, however, it is surrounded by great cafes, shops and workplaces. Over a ten-day period, time-lapse cameras will observe how people interact with the park and furniture elements. The first two days will examine no activation, the next four days will observe activities with park and furniture elements only, and the final four days will discover what happens with full activation, which includes …
Richard Weller is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia, former Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC), and is currently Creative Director of the Not in my Backyard: 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture. Please, tell us about yourself. What drew you to landscape architecture? And academia? My father was German born in Palestine – my mother in Manly, Sydney. The British arrested the Germans in 1942 and sent them to Australia – they had started what is now the city of Tel Aviv. They were put in a camp for seven years in Victoria and when they got out they became farmers on the …
Crisp apple cider, served via an Arqua Fountain, equals good nights ahead at the International Festival of Landscape Architecture. Street Furniture Australia’s production team have been working on the Batlow Cider Fountain to tour to Canberra this October. Production Manager Christopher Morgan took time from his busy schedule for the serious task of fountain testing, with a keg supplied by Batlow Cider. “It is safe to say our cider has never been served through drinking fountains before,” says Batlow’s Rich Coombes. “We are excited to partner with Street Furniture Australia to bring good times and great cider to the festival.” At our Regents Park factory, Morgan and his team are challenged with delivering the bubbly liquid in a steady, controlled stream, while preserving the dignity of waiters and esteemed guests. (No sudden spurts.) “After experimenting with several valves …
