2111 ___ KEPA KALYAKOORL
Winja noonook bidi wah? Nguny kepa bidi. Duba Kan Koorliny! Nidja Kepa nyinniny Kalyakoorl. Where is your path? My path is the water path. Walk slowly and softly, and here the water will sit forever. >>
1911 ___ REMNANT HYBRIDS, HYBRID REMNANTS?
Dawn breaks on the sublime claypans of Perth. This view could be an imaginary past landscape, but we are within the contemporary landscape, inside a vital ‘remnant’ patch, bounded by highways >>
1908 ___ IN TIME WITH WATER
How can design processes assist in understanding the underlying and hybrid nature of water systems in our urban environments so that we can better prepare for the densification of cities and the impact of climate change? >>
1906 ___ HOTSPOT
In our biodiversity hotspot, there are numerous and intricate interdependencies between city and ecology. Urban forms significantly impact groundwater recharge; these aquifers meet the deep tap roots of the banksia; these banksia provide vital habitat for endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos >>
1905 ___ PERTH'S THREE COASTS
After Rod Simpson's Three Cities of Sydney, it can be useful to think of Perth as Three Coasts and three broad environmental types. The iconic First Coast at the Indian Ocean, the Second Coast formed by the long chains of wetlands, and the Third Coast: the clayey high-groundwater plain at the foothills >>
1903 ___ SWAMPSCAPES
Ecological immersion through poetry, cartography and soundscape. Swampscapes ignites awarenesses of place. A little ecological engagement recalibrates how we see and read Perth >>
1809 ___ THE DEEP WATERS OF PERTH
Aquifers underpin our city, our biodiverse ecology and our future. No other Australian city, and few cities globally, share this remarkable condition >>
1808 ___ TESTING GROUNDS
Urban forms and housing designs need to respond to the hydrological conditions of Perth, to different ecotypes of sand, clay, groundwater and vegetation >>
1807 ___ MAL ARIA
Early European responses to the Wet City >>
1805 ___ DEEP STRUCTURE
Conceptualising and communicating Perth’s ‘deep structure’ is an essential prelude and catalyst to designing a city that responds to its ecological and hydrological imperatives >>
1806 ___ PERTH'S SECOND COAST
Cutting, filling, benching and hydrological erasure is the norm across Perth’s development frontier >>
1710 ___ MCHARGIAN PERTH
Viewing the metropolitian landscape through a McHargian Lens, renders a clear picture of the planned sprawl of Perth and the conflicts with ecological systems >>
1706 ___ perth is a wetland
Perth is a Wetland, was then, now, still is. By opening the eyes to this underlying ecology, it becomes apparent. Water’s continuity, presence through the city, and its continuing persistence. Through the unapparent, rerouted, encoded; through the rich, sublime and filthy. We recognise that Perth is and remains a Wetland we inhabit. Before we build and design, we need to walk, resee – and listen >>
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