flytrap presents and documents projects and writing by Linda Carroli. This website instigated in January 2009.
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Writing URBANISTA: Design Labs for Urban Futures Design labs are providing Australian designers and artists with opportunities to collaboratively envision and conjure diverse urban futures. Such environments draw designers into a developmental environment to explore design as a means by which to address the challenges of urban living and life. This article looks at three examples of design labs engaging interdisciplinarity ... more
Writing URBANISTA: Boom! shake-shake-shake the room ... The arts has a push and pull relationship with urban development and land use, often clustering in unattractive or undesirable inner city areas for their accessibility, flexibility and affordability. After a cultural ecology and economy seeds, others pay heed. It's not just the artists and bohemian feel that are noteworthy, but also the social mix and street life. Others are also attracted to those places and eventually those cheaper properties become the focus of speculation, desirable redevelopment and investment opportunities, ushered in under the banner of urban renewal or urban consolidation. Policy, property and planning seem to conspire to reify this economic dynamic. Renewal isn’t benign. When I was involved in resident action groups, let's say 20 or so years ago, urban renewal wasn't supported by progressive social and affordable housing initiatives or consideration of community or design dividends. It was progress - everything stopped for it and everything was swept aside for it ... more Writing URBANISTA: Sensing and Searching the City :::::::::::::::::::: Project The Placing Project :::::::::::::::::::: Writing Premier of Queensland's New Media Art Awards :::::::::::::::::::: Writing Transmission Lines 1955 - 1974  Transmission Lines 1955 – 1974 is a project that documents my father’s working life as a rigger and linesman with the Electric Power Transmission Pty Ltd. This work is comprised of a number of content sharing and social networking efforts to archive and present this story. My father, Quinto Carroli, kept a photographic record of his working life and the photographs featured in this map are his personal photographs from various transmission line projects around Australia and Italy in the period 1955 to 1974. His migration to Australia in 1956, to work on electrification projects, was sponsored by the company.
:::::::::::::::::::: Writing URBANISTA: Move your body One of the great and, as yet, unrealised promises of the digital age is more leisure time and opportunities. High-tech and automated workplaces and homes are supposed to save us time and money so that we can spend less time working and more time playing, learning, relaxing and participating. Recreation is supposed to be radically recreated. While that promise was not born out and we disturbingly negotiate work/life balance - pushed ever harder into longer work hours - we now have at our fingertips different types of leisure spaces and opportunities. Digital culture, new technologies, design and lifestyle have converged to revive public spaces for recreation in the 21st century. Our cities hum day and night and we are seeing the emergence of a participatory public realm that slips between physical and virtual space, enabled by wirelessness and mobility ... more :::::::::::::::::::: Writing URBANISTA: Keeping it vital It was to turn into a day of strange serendipities evoking my distant connections with Brisbane’s southside. I spilled into a gritty and grungy West End as a student in 1983, just prior to the reclamation of underused and predominantly industrial land in neighbouring South Brisbane for Expo 88. There I lived for many years working across creative fields like independent media, local history, the arts and community development. West End was much loved by locals – by most accounts it still is - with its street life, its ‘sense of community’ and its diversity – a mix of Indigenous, Vietnamese, Greek and Anglo cultures. Alternative lifestyles also took hold, offering experiments in commerce, consciousness and communitarianism. Students and artists nested in like-minded share households while cultural organisations, facilities and venues moved into disused warehouses peppered through the industrial area along the riverbank. They staked out streets for festivals or markets. The inner south offered choices, experiences, proximity and inclusion ... more ::::::::::::::::::::
Writing Placemarking :: something happened here Many private, state and city authorities have invested in public art projects for decades with primarily permanent design and art works dotted throughout new developments and city streets. As one colleague recently said during her visit to Brisbane, observing the polished, etched and cast forms embedded in the urban mesh, ‘all the public art here is so shiny and new’. While this is one person’s observation during a brief stay, perhaps it indicates that some urban environments have reached a kind of tipping point where permanent and outdoor public artwork is concerned. Its prevalence and proliferation is noteworthy as a sequence of sites and works that might threaten to become, as Miwon Kwon warns, ‘genericized into an undifferentiated serialization, one place after another’ ... more :::::::::::::::::::: |
