Drawing lessons from National Tree Day

September 10, 2011 Participatory techniques

National Tree Day shows what is needed to attract continues public participation in events...

Walking the transect

September 1, 2011 Participatory techniques

The transect is a participatory process used to collect information about an area of land as part of the design process...

Participatory Learning and Action — and how to use it

September 1, 2011 Participatory techniques

Participatory Learning and Action makes use of diagrams such as matices, tables, maps and models to build participation into project implementation...

What became of Bill?

August 1, 2011 Memoir

It's strange how the mention of a name can suddenly take you back to something in your past. So it was that an online conversation on the Lost…

Town in the mountains

July 31, 2011 Nomadics

Katoomba... an architectural medley, a melange of styles and people... a town in the mountains home to an extraordinary woman...

How to buy stamps

July 31, 2011 Memoir

Buying stamps on Sydney's lower North shore had never been so cheap... even if you did have to stay watchful...