When we lived in Bourke St, Riley St, Crown St, (we didn’t live in Palmer St) Sydney, they were all terraced houses. Well - of a night, after tea, everyone came outside there. It was nothing to have twenty - all with their chairs and...
The following paper explains the range of contests that have emerged from the Migrant Heritage Places research. Many of the comments occurred at an all-day workshop held in June 1993 at Redfern Town Hall with selected representatives of migrant groups. Helen Armstrong, 2000 Contested values about place...
LANDSCAPES OF HOPE: MIGRATION AND PLACE By Helen Armstrong De-placing difference is closely aligned with the experience of migration, a phenomenon that is increasingly pertinent at the beginning of the 21st century where changing political structures, terrorism and wars are resulting in the mass movement of people. ...
Armstrong, H. (2004) ‘Making the Unfamiliar Familiar’ in Landscape Research V29(3). Pp237-260. Making the Unfamiliar Abstract: Understanding the ways people respond to place in an intercultural context is a rich and rewarding process. The knowledge-discovery journey can involve different modes of transport and multiple and various routes. ...
Migrant Place - making in Australia The experience of migration has resulted in an intricate web of places, migrant places, which make up the cultural landscape of Australian cities and towns. Cultural pluralism in Australian cities, however, is as deeply rooted in mainstream Australian culture as...
Cultural Pluralism in Australian Designers Landscape design in Australia is represented by two main design approaches; international design styles and an Australian landscape design ethic using abstract representations of the Australian landscape. There are also new design approaches emerging from designers who are migrants or children...
A number of unusualgardens nestle among the hills and dales in and around Brisbane. These are the gardens fulfilling the dreams and longings of migrant gardeners who have arrived in Australia for different reasons and at different times over the last fifty to sixty years,...