Conversations

TOPICS

Installations and interventions

From pop-ups to playgrounds – temporary projects are as diverse as the communities they engage.

CONVERSATIONS

Why the next MONA won’t be anything like MONA

Cultural buildings that are a direct response to their local environment are more likely to gain global attention.

Conversations

University campuses should be more like Glastonbury

As the higher-education gold rush recedes, campus design needs to be less about building and more about experience design.

Interview

Behold, the office of the future

Australian Financial Review

Conversations

Little house of big ideas

Want new solutions? Ask a new audience.

Conversations

Global 1-to-1

How does apartment living measure up across the world?

Conversations

Festivals of learning

Extraordinary on-campus experiences are the new measure of higher education success.

Conversations

Bringing trees back to Shanghai

Measuring the benefits of the urban forest – by speaking to people.

PODCAST

Student life: Why the campus is still critical to the university experience

Universities want to show their students and academics a really good time.

CONVERSATIONS

What 8,000 Australians think about their workplace

We’ve analysed eight years of workplace survey data to see how work has changed.

CONVERSATION

Would you work there?

Why hospitals need to be designed for staff as well as patients.

CONVERSATIONS

Connecting pandas, people and nature

How master planning can support biodiversity by designing for ​‘umbrella species’.

Topics

Super sustainable projects

Climate and biodiversity emergencies are global challenges that demand strong, adaptive responses.

Conversations

The benefits – and pitfalls – of working in isolation

The Conversation

TOPICS

What makes a waterfront world class?

Today, across the world, waterfronts are as fundamental to cities as water is to life.