AWA building, Sydney, 1937-1939

My comrades and I have a new blog about living in cities. It’s called The Patch. Please visit.

The Dailies
Thomas Demand
Commercial Travellers’ Association club, Martin Place, Sydney.
22 March – 22 April 2012.

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Easter eggs painted by Stefan.
Fig grown by a Moreton Bay (tree) at Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.
Table cloth spread by Virginia.

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Coming back to Sydney from Berlin I rediscovered a place full of colour.
Some weaving from Happy Talk House.

Happy Talk House.

B’s new look.

Janet Echelman’s aerial net installation, Tsunami 1.26.

Last of the camellias at Double Bay.

Happy Talk House opens Friday 23 September in Sydney’s Sandringham Gardens, Hyde Park North (diagonally opposite the Australian Museum). Happy Talk will have workshops and talks on Pacific Island culture as part of Art & About 2011.

Happy Talk = Heidi Dokulil, Liane Rossler, Beatrice Chew.
Broadsheet: Beatrice Chew and Heidi Dokulil.
Architect: Mano Ponnambalam.

Please visit the Happy Talk site for information and program.

An initiative to open up conversations between the creative industry and the wider community in Australia and across the Pacific.
Web site coming soon. Please bookmark the Happy Talk page.

Floral sculptor Tracey Deep’s studio in Sydney. I didn’t want to leave.

Moon.
Sculpture and installations.
To be launched by Fernanda Cardoso
13–18 September
The Depot Gallery
3/2 Danks Street, Waterloo, Sydney

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About to leave a part of Sydney after being here for 17 years. One of the things I will miss: walking home at night past the delightful, changing window of my florist neighbour.

New Territory Design Research talk at COFA, Sydney, 4 August 2011.
Richard Goodwin: parasitic actions for public spaces; in a series of rolling catastrophies (ie life) the city becomes more like nature.

What came out of it was this unexpected sense of optimism for the future—this way of thinking about the city.

My friend and work partner, Heidi Dokulil, also spoke with Liane Rossler about their new, soon-to-be-launched adventure in Pacific dialogues — Happy Talk. Please bookmark their holding page for events and workshops a little later this year in Sydney.

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