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COVID and What Comes Next: Episode 3
This is the final of three articles examines how the C-19 virus will accelerate changes that were already underway in our towns and cities, and opportunities that are being created for new structures and ways of doing things....
COVID and What Comes Next: Episode 2
Not long after COVID broke across the world I did some writing about what C-19 would mean for the shape of our towns and cities and the form of the new operating paradigm. This is the second of three articles that looks at the need to focus on resilience....
COVID and What Comes Next: Episode 1
Not long after COVID broke across the world I did some writing about what C-19 would mean for the shape of our towns and cities and the form of the new operating paradigm. Read the first of three articles here. 2020-COVID-And-what-comes-next-Episode-1Download
City Design and the User Experience
David Galloway and others from Leederville Connect's Design Group have prepared a design of Leederville, Perth, Australia based on the experience of the users.Usually cities and towns are planned for transport, height, bulk, commercial yield and infrastructure. In...
Perth Urban Design Forum
The Western Australian Urban Design Forum held its end of year wrap up at Stala Contemporary Gallery in North Bridge, Perth Western Australia. David Galloway was one of the speakers, presenting a short talk about designing cities from the user experience. This talk...
The Dream Community – Taiwan
The arts has an important role in the vitalisation of urban communities. This short video was made during a trip to Taiwan. The Dream Community is a tower block development about 30 min train trip outside central Taipei. Over 25 years the developer, Gordon Tsai, has...
Local narrative drives urban design
The challenge with planning codes is that they attempt to use words and sketch diagrams to communicate a feeling and style for urban areas. They are also very generic and unable to accomodate the specific and local feel of places. To address this in Leederville,...
Inadvertent design for Slow Living???
The Slow Movement, which we at Ferart Design strongly support, has been around since the 1980's when Carlo Petrini's protested against the opening of a McDonald's restaurant in Piazza di Spagna, Rome. This drew attention to what we loose...
International publication – Rangelands Management
Based on Ferart Design's long term work in Rangeland Management, David Galloway was invited to contribute a chapter to an international publication about sustainability research. This chapter summarised the emergent body of work in new approaches to...
Repurposing Public Art – Barcelona
And here is another fantastic example of repurposing public art - from Barcelona. The outside the Museum of Contemporary Art is a large modernist courtyard and lumpy sculpture. In the crowded streets of Barcelona there are not many spaces available for...
Repurposing Public Art – Glasgow
Public art is installed to capture the wider vision of how the city (usually) fathers want to portray themselves to the world or capture a particular zeitgeist in physical form. This public art ranges from the heroic and military thru to the abstract and...
WGV wins Awards
Between 2014 and 2016 Ferart Design assisted Landcorp implement the One Planet sustainability framework for its WGV development in White Gum Valley. This was recognised through awards in 2016 and 2017 by the Urban Development Institute of...
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