Designing and creating for a rapidly changing world.
Launch of the TOWN TEAM MOVEMENT
Town teams are organisations of business and citizens who gather together to organise, engage and empower local residents and businesses to create vibrant, sustainable and successful places. The teams curate and lead place activation and development. Town Teams are a...
Getting a Sense of Perspective
In September 2017 I visited Stonehenge in the United Kingdom. I had visited once in the 1980's and since then understanding of the archeology of the site and its surrounds had how that was interpreted for the visitor had dramatically changed. Where as Stonehenge...
Art as a Disruptive Weapon
Over the past forty years digital technology has radically changed artistic activity. Now tech companies control how artists get benefit from their work. Digital middlemen reap the biggest rewards from artistic activity and artists produce content for free....
Urban Intimacy
Being Australian, we are used to wide open spaces and horizontal skylines. Now, living for a sort while in an old red and blonde stone tenement on the South Side of Glasgow, Scotland, the eye has to adjust to verticals and closeness. This gives an new...
Steam Punk Distilling
Another example of local technological innovation - without any coding wizardry or app fuelled hype!!. In the foothills of the Alps in Switzerland about 24km from Berne I met Fritz Widmer who had built an amazing biofuel powered mobile distillery for making schnapps.
ferart design can take your project from a concept to a sustainable reality.
We build teams of like minded people who understand your project.
We can help you solve the difficult questions for your project.
How do we live in a post-covid world, address climate change and inequity?
How do we create places that are good for people and make business models that change the world?
Our approach is about integrating thinking and practice, innovation and pragmatic application.
We work at the interface of project design and development, community and environment, business and innovation.
We design the future.