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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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Digging Deep: This is what Social Design Means to Us
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Digging Deep: This is what Social Design Means to Us

The Social Space INDE.Award celebrates design that imaginatively brings people together. These are impressive spaces where we interact and play. But what about these projects makes them ‘social’?

Social design, without context, is one of those terms that could fairly easily be appropriated to reference a variety of projects, briefs and approaches. But what is it about these seemingly disparate, varied sector projects that unites them under the “social” banner?

This is something we asked ourselves in great detail when creating the INDE.Awards Social Space category – and after much research and discussion, here’s what we discovered…

The Social Space is characterized by design that imaginatively brings people together. These are impressive spaces where we interact, play – even work. It’s design that is purpose-built to encourage people to collide and interact with one another. It’s design that uses the principles of typical human behaviour to create strategic spaces that direct and produce social activity.

Brought to you by Living Edge, we present your 2017 INDE.Awards shortlist for Social Space…

 

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PLAYbox at Esplanade Theatres, Lekker Architects

 

Cinemaxx Karawachi

Cinemaxx Junior, DP Design

 

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Mezzi Master Bookshop & Exhibit, One Plus Partnership

 

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Sensory Lab, Foolscap Studio

 

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M&G Café and Bar at The Star, Luchetti Krelle

 

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The University of Sydney Business School, Carr

 

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Humming Puppy, Karen Abernethy Architects

 

Woollahra

Woollahra Library, BVN

Words by Sophia Watson

About the Author

Holly Cunneen

Holly Cunneen was the editor of Habitus and has spent her time in the media writing about architecture, design and our local industry. With a firm view that “design has a shared responsibility to the individual as much as it does the wider community,” her personal and professional trajectory sees her chart the interests, accomplishments, and emerging patterns of behaviour within the architecture and design community.

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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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