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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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A festival that finds its roots in London had its biggest and most successful party last year in Melbourne – this year, they’re back in a big way.


Melbournians unite. Let’s come together and get real about the future. The world’s natural resources are quickly diminishing at a time when our population is growing at an equally rapid rate. Off The Grid Festival is Australia’s first solar powered, zero-waste musical and arts festival dedicated to ensuring we’re moving in the right direction.

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The feeling of festival being that a sustainable future isn’t just possible, it’s inevitable, the end goal is to make Melbourne a completely self-sufficient city. And despite receiving no help from the local, state of federal governments, the organisers are intent on achieving this goal.

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In addition to live music and local art enticing festival lovers there will also be a second stage, The Palimpsest, on which professions will speak, discuss and debate ways to move forward. These talks will present some of Australia’s leading environmentalists, architects, activists, entrepreneurs and foodies centre stage to have their voices heard.

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Panelists include Adele Winteridge, Bronwyn Johnson, Clare Cousins, Ellen Sandell, Joost Bakker, Natalie Isaacs, Paul Gorrie, Peter Malatt, Rob Murray-Leach, Tane Hunter and Timothy Hill.

If all of the above doesn’t do it for you then how about a little bit of poetic justice? The return of the festival marks the Summer Solstice in homage to the power of the sun.

Get amongst it.

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Words by Holly Cunneen

Off The Grid Festival | Habitus Living
Off The Grid Festival | Habitus Living
Off The Grid Festival | Habitus Living

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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