Culture

National Indigenous Fire Workshop. Cape York 2014 at Steve Irwin Wildfire Reserve, hosted by Taepithiggi people, Mapoon Land and Sea Rangers.

Cultural burning can be a vital fire management tool

by The Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation—November 13, 2019

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architect's International Festival of Landscape Architecture – the square and the park – was held over two days in October to a capacity audience. Photo: David Hyde

The square and the park: a festival review

by Michael Smith—October 31, 2019

Jordan Lacey, ambisonic recording in preparation for COLD. Photo: Alban Mannisi

Sound in the City: Translating Ambiance

by Tracey Clement—September 13, 2019

Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake within the 1.6 million hectare World Heritage listed Tasmanian Wilderness. Photo: RN Brauns

The things we keep: Why Australia must protect its national heritage

by David Yencken—September 12, 2019

Under threat from climate change, the Bubbler is a natural spring and important cultural site for the Arabana people of the Kathi Thanda region. Photo: Melissa Nursey-Bray

Not passive victims: Indigenous Australians respond to climate change

by Melissa Nursey-Bray—August 30, 2019

Like other cities, Melbourne is growing. How will its squares and parks continue to provide for a fast-changing population? Flagstaff Gardens is one of a series of 19th century parks at the edge of central Melbourne. Photo: Bob T

The square & the park: an international festival

by Foreground—August 8, 2019

The authors of the Burra Charter at Burra, South Australia in 1979: Jane Lennon, Peter Forrest, Jim Kerr, Josephine Flood, John Mulvaney and Peter Watts. Photo supplied by author with permission.

Forty years of the Burra Charter and Australia’s heritage vision

by Dr James Lesh—July 11, 2019

Tjirbruki Munaintya Tjirbruki is an important Kaurna Creation Ancestor. The artwork translates his creation story into an aerial map, which includes Warriparinga, the Adelaide Coastline, Victor Harbor and Brukunga in the Adelaide Hills. Artwork: Aboriginal registered landscape architect and visual artist Paul Herzich

Foreground weekly review: NAIDOC week

by Foreground—July 10, 2019

The exemplary campus design of Taylor Cullity Lethlean's Eastern Precinct Landscape received an Award of Excellence in the 2019 AILA Victoria Awards. Photo: Will Salter

These five campus designs are changing the way students value university

by Foreground—June 27, 2019

Kabulwarnamyo outstation is a remote settlement of about 50 people on Nawarddeken Country in West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Photo: Hannah Robertson

Caring for Country: how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services

by Hannah Robertson—June 21, 2019

The detailed ground patterning of Park Louvre Lens Arts France by Paris-based design firm Mosbach Paysagistes.

Catherine Mosbach’s “submersive” experiments in landscape architecture

by Catherine Mosbach, Foreground—May 30, 2019

Geoffrey Dutton’s “marginal garden” in Scotland, is one of six case-study gardens in Overgrown. Image: Julian Raxworthy

Overgrown: a call for landscape architecture to return to the garden

by Julian Raxworthy—May 30, 2019