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Linda Carroli is a writer, editor, researcher and consultant, investigating the areas of art, science, technology and urbanism. She is currently working on the Placing Project, an exploration of planning, community and environment, funded by the Visual Art Board of the Australia Council and hosted by Harbinger Consultants.
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URBANISTA :: What if ... an Australian Festival of the Built Environment?
January 2010
After attending much of the London Festival of Architecture in 2008, I was moved, when returning home, to suggest to colleagues in the cultural and design sectors that a rapidly growing city like Brisbane, with its burgeoning research cultures in design disciplines, distinctive vernacular architecture and attention to urban issues and ideas, might find it useful to plant a catalyst event focused architecture and urbanism into the urban and cultural fabric. The reality, of course, is that any Australian city could host such an event. However, I propose Brisbane because it’s the city I know best and I have seen enough signs of life and innovation in the urban development, planning and architecture sectors to be able to visualise the possibility as a unique, geographically sensitive venture. The city clearly has the resources to make such an event work while also offering a specific environment and outlook for city-making. The London festival was a sparkling array of interdisciplinary events programmed across that massive city, including suburban sites, that resulted in large scale temporary structures and major street closures animated by art, music, dance and other events as well as exhibitions, walks, talks, boat and bicycle rides, discussions, locative media, publications and performances ... more :::::::::::::::::::: WRITING
ESSAY :: Community Benefits Agreements: Grounding Equitable Development in Community Negotiation
October 2009
This essay discusses the emergence of Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) in the USA with a view to considering their applicability to Australian urban development processes. The Equitable (or Responsible) Development movement has endeavoured to mitigate the impacts of urban development and gentrification on low income and disadvantaged communities. CBAs have enabled community coalitions to broker benefits for local communities and neighbourhoods. The essay considers the implications of this in the Australian development and planning system, proposing that the types of community benefits that are brokered through local authority and developer agreements do not have the same type of impact that those brokered through CBAs have had. A further consideration is that CBAs and stakeholder engagement is a core pillar of Corporate Social Responsibility, which is largely under-developed in the urban development industry. CBAs and Equitable Development presents an opportunity for developers to enhance their corporate reputations while also delivering real benefits for disadvantaged and low income communities ... more :::::::::::::::::::: PROJECT
The Placing Project
A project funded by the Visual Art Board of the Australia Council
Placing
is an emerging body of cultural writing, projects and interrogation
that will transverse place, placemarking, place writing and writing
place. Theorist Jane Rendell engages the idea of site writing,
interleaving the word with site and architecture. In much the same way
that Wordings considered, through various situations and encounters,
practices of words, Placing considers practices of place. However,
placing is not only about practices of place but also about practices
of writing place. Like writing, 'wording' and drawing, it is intended
as a both a noun and a verb – a thing and an action. Also like
'wording', placing is something we are often precise or careful about.
To place something carelessly or thoughtlessly (even a word) is to
misplace it or displace something else. Then, can we speak of place
without considering position? Or … disposition? more :::::::::::::::::::: PROJECT
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.
Transmission
Lines 1955 – 1974 is a personal history that marks and documents space
and time. In compiling the information, I realised there were many
gaps, especially dates, and these gaps become part of the story by
provoking questions and assumptions. The postwar electrification
projects, powered predominantly by migrant labour, were essential for
building and modernising this nation ... more
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