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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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Seeing Tasmania’s beauty from a new angle.
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Seeing Tasmania’s beauty from a new angle.

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The Glenorchy Arts and Sculpture Park or GASP!, is Room 11’s first foray into public architecture.

Along the River Derwent in Tasmania’s Glenorchy, Room 11 has built a colourfully calibrated public walkway, deftly linking previously marginalised, surprisingly beautiful sections of foreshore.

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Room 11’s co-founder Thomas Bailey says, “We move on from nostalgic visions of place making and embrace interstitial ‘spaces’ with relish.”

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The river’s silky surface and abundant birdlife are able taken in casually as one walks the gentle arc which links a school, playground, major entrainment centre and rowing club.

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Punctuating the arc are two carefully crafted pavilions, offering shelter, seating and a location to pause and consider the natural beauty of the landscape.

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The GASP! project was conceived as a ribbon along which contemporary art events and installations might occur. Turner Prize winning Artist Susan Phillipz was commissioned to undertake the inaugural art project, The Waters Twine.

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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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