I was a business student at the AGSM when Fred Hilmer, Helen Nugent, and Roger Collins were in their stride. The late Jeremy Davis kept everyone transfixed as he unraveled a case…
July is peak whale watching season on the east coast of Australia. Up to 40,000 humpback whales are on the move to warmer breeding grounds after a summer of feeding on krill…
Parlour’s Sydney Summer salon at Hayball brought together UK academic Hiral Patel and Rebecca McLaughlan. Hayball Principal Fiona Young and Hiral are co-authors of the third edition of Alastair Blyth and John…
First published on the WATAC blog, February 27, 2023 The new parish priest at St Canice's in Kings Cross has upended the spatial experiment that shaped the community for the last two…
Six months after its launch in the Melbourne CBD, a new kind of third space feels like home for a "ridiculously diverse" mix of people. How to lure people back into the…
For traditional life here on this continent for the First People, all knowledge was sung. "How do you become part of the continuation of the longest living cultures in the world, how…
2021 update: Since this post was first shared on Linkedin in 2015 the State Government has sponsored third space for the tech sector at The Sydney Startup Hub. Post COVID we need…
“This has completely changed the way the School thought about work and education.” Celeste Perfect, Strategic Projects Director Melbourne Business School. The home of Australia’s best MBA reinvents the learning experience in…
A symbol of a world worth living in. "We want to explore the space where the circles overlap." Paul Dowler, CSU CFO 2021 recap: Two schools of Theology came together to develop…
"An amazing human experiment to reprogram relationships across the business groups." Martin Wright SBS Corporate Services. On-screen and behind the scenes - SBS wrings every last drop of value from its Artarmon…
"Is there a better online community right now?" Parlour provides important infrastructure, resources and events for professionals in the built environment. Over the past decade its become the accessible home of gender…
"Something to do and somewhere to be." Community vision. Ku-ring-gai is planning new community facilities on 1.3 hectares of Council owned land to the south of Pacific Highway and 150m from the…
"The best kind of change journey is where its planned in collaboration with the people who will be directly impacted by the change" Envisioning workshop participant. 2021 recap: COVID-19 derailed the divestment…
“We create places where people love to work” Audrey Briel, Workplace Program Director.
Working-from-home is the start of the distributed hybrid workplace model the planet needs right now. The genie is out of the bottle. Every manager knows that working from home (WFH) is possible -…
Originally published in the AIA NSW Chapter Bulletin Futures Issue. Sydney is recovering from smoke haze that was five times above the hazardous rating with 81 bush fires burning across the state…
Schools go ABW. No, really. I'm heading to Melbourne for Transitions19 a research conference organised around this question: What is involved in making the journey from traditional to innovative learning environments? I'm wondering…
Award-winning Sydney coworking is a game changer for freelancers. The catch for everyone still working back at corporate HQ is that the private retreat typology won’t scale – you’ll have to jump ship.…
What does a 68-year career look like? What does that sort of professional longevity mean for companies and cities? One of my standout books of 2016 was The 100-Year Life – the latest thinking…
A primer on innovation for people with building projects. The conventional design process for a new building should establish a project vision and objectives as well as documenting the functional brief. When…