Issue 62

Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62 is the first issue of the year and always a great time to put our best foot forward. With Adam Goodrum, the loveliest man in design, as Guest Editor, we draw on his insights as a furniture designer, artist and educator to look at the makers shaping our design world. Sustainability has never been more important, and increasingly this is a consideration from the start with projects designed to address their immediate environment as well as the longevity of the planet. From the coldest winters to the most tropical of summers, addressing how we live in the environment is crucial to creating the perfect home.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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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