Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape Architecture Australia is an authoritative and contemporary record of landscape architecture, urban design and land-use planning in Australia, providing independent reviews of public, commercial and residential projects, plus independent, commissioned comment on the issues facing landscape architecture and its practitioners today. It Is the national magazine of the Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).

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Landscape Architecture Australia

A FRESH YEAR

REFLECTING ON THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSION • A message from AILA National President Peta-Maree Ashford

THE AUTHORSHIP ISSUE

Co-creating • Increasingly, landscape architects are providing agency to those who have typically been positioned passively in our practice – from Indigenous communities, who for decades have been provided with “solutions,” through to plants, animals, and landscapes.

People, stories and place: Yalinguth • Named for the Woi Wurrung word for “yesterday,” Yalinguth is a site-specific app that immerses listeners in First Nations stories, music and more along a street in Melbourne’s inner-north.

Authenticity and authority: Country as co-author • How non-Indigenous landscape architects can build mutually nourishing relationships with Country and its First Peoples through the authority of authorship – and leave the profession and the landscape better than they found them.

Bringing communities together in public space • With Christie’s range of Australian barbecues, cooking and sharing food together in the outdoors has never been easier.

Shifting grounds • Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation and Parks Victoria reflect on more than a decade of joint management and the growing impact of this co-authored approach to the way land is understood, managed and designed.

Bespoke design tools for landscape architects • Urbis partners with technology integrator Nexsys to enhance their BIM capabilities

Lunar musings • As we move beyond the Earth to fulfil human needs, we have the opportunity to set up best practice from the beginning by declaring the rights of the Moon.

Tree designers and bird clients • Using more-than-human design as a theoretical framework and artificial habitats for arboreal wildlife as a case study, Deep Design Lab explores approaches for better inclusion of nonhuman contributions.

Rewilding in a post-humanist world: Salad Dressing • The work of the Singapore-based landscape architecture practice envisions a future world in which humans, nature and machines co-exist and co-evolve.

Co-authoring • The contemporary project is rarely achieved by a single designer. Input from multiple disciplines, along with the creative potentials presented by design media, contribute to design being understood as a co-authored practice.

Co-authoring in the digital age • Digital technologies are challenging traditional notions of the designer as author, as data is shared and design outcomes are produced in new and evolving ways.

Who has a right in the copy? • Discerning which rights and protections a work might receive under copyright law can be a difficult process. For landscape architects, however, unique barriers to moral authorship complicate an already thorny challenge.

What is authorship? Perspectives from a practicing landscape architect • Does authorship matter in a post-truth public realm, when unauthorized digital copies of built projects can be purchased on the international market? Kirsten Bauer teases out the contradictions of “authorship” and calls for generosity in recognizing co-authors.

On crediting the multidisciplinary project • Faced with grave challenges like climate change, we need to understand what different disciplines are contributing to projects– if we are to...