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Designing Homeliness
Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as a continual process of creating, maintaining, and restoring meanings and experiences of home. Melisa Duque draws from her design ethnographic practice with people using smart home lighting, gardening, jigsaw puzzles, and op-shopping to present everyday examples in dialogue with theoretical discussions, revealing the role of homeliness in generating wellbeing. The research projects featured in this book were conducted in rural, regional, remote, and metropolitan areas in Australia, at familiar and unfamiliar living sites, including people’s homes, a mental health hospital unit, a residential aged care facility, and a charity shop revaluing domestic things. This book offers conceptualisations and practical tools to advance home studies while engaging with broader discussions on ageing, wellbeing, and sustainability. Led by design research and social science analysis, this book will be of value for students, researchers, and practitioners at these intersections, including design, anthropology, and human geography.
Making Space
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The Melbourne Street Art Guide
The Melbourne Street Art Guide is the essential reference to the who, what, why and where of Melbourne's dynamic street-art scene. Focused on the art, politics, people and places which make Melbourne an undisputed international hotspot for street art and graffiti, this highly-illustrated book delves into the inner worlds of the artist, collector and curator to provide a holistic picture of contemporary Melbourne street art practice today. Maps with street art hotspots plus self-guided tours reveal where to go and what to see, while short essays, interviews and profiles provide an invaluable set of tools for any street-art connoisseur to decipher and interpret the richly layered terrain of the city's streets. This book takes readers on a memorable journey into the heart of this important and, at times, misunderstood artistic realm.
Portraits from a Land Without People
Published to coincide with the first anniversary of the apology to the Stolen Generation, this title is a stunning and emotive record of the first Australians. With contributions from Pat Dodson and all proceeds from the sale going to the "Jimmy Little Foundation", this title is an essential document of our past, and of the future of reconciliation.
Here Art Grows on Trees
Here art grows on trees' features Simryn Gill's latest works commissioned for the Australian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Edited by the exhibition curator, Catherine de Zegher, this limited edition monograph includes more than 100 artwork plates printed on different paper stocks that demonstrate the generative and cyclic nature in Gill's remarkable oeuvre of quotidian beauty. The essays by leading international thinkers and writers include: Catherine de Zegher (On Line. Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, MoMA); Carol Armstrong (Scenes in a Library, MIT Press); Lilian Chee (Conserving Domesticity, ORO Editions); Ross Gibson (26 Views of a Starburst World, UWA Press); Kajri Jain (Gods in the Bazaar, DUP Books); Brian Massumi (Semblance and Event, MIT Press); and Michael Taussig (What Color is The Sacred? UCP).0Exhibition: Venice Art Biennale, Italy (01.06.-24.11.2013). 0.
18th Biennale of Sydney 2012
The most exciting contemporary visual arts event in the Asia-Pacific region, the 18th Biennale of Sydney, will take place from 27 June - 16 September 2012. This full-colour catalogue provides a comprehensive overview of the exhibition, its artists and the ideas that inform it.
Parragirls
Parragirls profiles how contemporary art helped transform the lives and memories of former residents of Parramatta Girls Home in Western Sydney, and a long-neglected site located on the lands of the Burramattagai people of the Darug nation. Focusing on the art and activism of Parragirls themselves, this ground-breaking book reveals how art can change places and perceptions, using images and creative writing to reimagine the difficult spaces and memories of a former child welfare institution.
Space Invaders
Off the street and into the gallery this book sureys the past 10 years of Australian street art. Playful, edgy, clever, satirical and political, street art has significantly altered Australian visual culture over the past decade and has heralded the arrival of a new generation of contemporary artists.
Blubberland
A leading critic examines the connections between obesity and architecture, unchecked sprawl and unchecked appetites, and other forms of insatiability that are hurting our planet and bodies. Welcome to Blubberland—a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we've grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In Blubberland, award-winning critic Elizabeth Farrelly looks at our “superfluous superfluity,” our huge eco-footprint, and asks why we...
