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The nuance behind the evolving workplace

There’s no simple answer to the workplace-during-a-pandemic conundrum. There are, however, many ways that organisations can fine-tune their workplaces.

Designing for the Hybrid World of Work

The Work, Rest & Pay podcast

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Compassionate cities: enabling people to have a fulfilling life after a dementia diagnosis

Simple design changes can support people living with dementia, Robina Crook writes for Cities People Love.

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A daily dose of greens

Could urban farming change the way hospitals feed patients – and improve the health of our cities in the process?

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Burnt out?
Mental health in design

The mental health challenges facing the design profession, its people - and what needs to be done to change it

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A shot in the arm: How COVID-19 transformed telehealth and hospital design

What does the shift to telehealth what mean for the way new hospitals are designed or existing hospitals are reconfigured? We examine the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink the way healthcare is offered.

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Connection, trust and safety: co-working and COVID-19

At the heart of any co-working environment is the idea that it can do much more than provide a hotspot and a hot coffee. The best ones ask: Can we build a great like-minded community?

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The 15% difference: the outsize benefits of a small amount of green space

Decades after people first moved into Sydney’s Victoria Park neighbourhood, it’s clear their parklands - while just 15% of the site - have nurtured a community that’s going strong.

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Seven lessons for creating social impact by design

Creating social value is increasingly at the top of the agenda across the built environment industries. Design is key.

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A legacy landscape

Designed as a rich, varied ​‘collection of stories’, the new Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip in Perth celebrates the people and land that shape a place, from its early beginnings to modern day.

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From source to sea, over 40 years

In 1979, Hassell and Land Systems started designing ​‘Australia’s first fully-realised linear park’ along the River Torrens in Adelaide, South Australia. More than 40 years later, Adelaide’s residents tell us how it became - and has remained - one of the city’s best places.

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The New Methodology: The art of being together

If anything could ever have shown the extent of the role culture plays in placemaking, then it’s a virus that lives off the very thing that we most like doing: being together.

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High streets need to find their ​“appetite for design”

Humans experience urban space as theatre, and we describe that space with our bodies. Such spaces are vital – socially, meaningfully and sensually.

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What a master plan is supposed to do

The qualities that actually make something a ​“master plan” are consistently ill-defined. At best, a master plan is a precinct manager’s most valuable tool. At worst, they can potentially be a wasteful investment.

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Planting for all the right reasons

A plant is better than no plants. But our city streets deserve more than a few groundcover species in a sea of mulch, which won’t bring us the well-researched benefits of immersion in dynamic nature.