Culture

Venice 2018 creative team (L - R): Linda Tegg, Mauro Baracco, and Louise Wright.

Sowing the seeds of change

by Foreground—August 24, 2017

Kevin Taylor's ‘Secrets of Lightness’ memorial. Image: Ben Wrigley.

Writing the Australian landscape

by Foreground—August 23, 2017

The new face of the game: An AFLW match.

Melbourne is running out of room for its secular religion, AFL

by Foreground—August 22, 2017

Landscape architect Shea Hatch presents at Foreground's Cities for Children forum.

To make cities for children, we’ll have to overcome our culture of fear

by Foreground—August 9, 2017

Can a city set you free or otherwise trap you in a panopticon-like state?

When cities ruin your mental health

by Jason Byrne—August 5, 2017

Children walk through Tokyo independently.

Can children be free in a city?

by Karen Malone—July 26, 2017

Children in Victorian-era slums. Image: Ted Hood.

The birth of the larrikin: Melbourne’s colonial children

by Simon Sleight—June 28, 2017

The city-as-palimpsest: A primer on ‘psychogeography’

by Siobhan Lyons—June 22, 2017

McGregor Coxall's former BP site park has emerged from it's polluted past to become a contemporary post industrial harbour-front park.

Trains, planes and lawn mowers: Philip Coxall’s journey to landscape architecture

by Anton James—June 20, 2017

Jane Jacobs. Frame courtesy of 'Citizen Jane: The Battle for the City' (2017).

Jane of Arc

by Andrew Mackenzie—May 26, 2017

A man looks out over Melbourne from Victoria Barracks. Image: John William Lindt (courtesy of the State Library of Victoria).

Legacies of Empire: Control by design

by Aaron Magro—May 24, 2017

Kara Walker’s 'A Subtlety, or the Marvellous Sugar Baby' (2014) for Creative Time, New York.

Disruptive design: placemaking in times of crisis

by Foreground—May 12, 2017