68 RETHINKING CITIES Steffen Lehmann will direct the new Oz- China sustainable urban research centre 66 DANIEL EMMA The local design couple on their global achievements 70 THIS MONTH Your guide to this month’s design, planning and innovation events Daniel Emma Australian Institute of Landscape Architects DESIGN PLANNING INNOVATION THE ADELAIDE REVIEW FEBRUARY 2013 FORM
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68rethinking cities steffen Lehmann will direct the new Oz-china sustainable urban research centre
66danieL emmathe local design couple on their global achievements
70this mOnthYour guide to this month’s design, planning and innovation events
daniel emma
Australian Instituteof Landscape Architects
DESIGN PLANNING INNOVATION
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Leanne Amodeo
When daniel emma won the prestigious Bombay sapphire design discovery award (Bsdda) in 2010 it made a lot
of people stand up and take notice; not that anyone should have been surprised. since graduating from the University of south australia’s industrial design course in 2007 the husband and wife design duo of daniel to and emma aiston were already appearing on international design radars. in 2009 Wallpaper* magazine had them picked as emerging designers to watch and in that same year they were runners up in the Bsdda. their 2010 win was a watershed moment from which commissions followed. “Winning the award was a stepping stone for us,” to says. “and it was a goal that we were adamant we needed to achieve.”
it also generated a lot of media interest in the rosewater-based designers, with much of the attention focusing on their decision to remain in adelaide. “We lived in London for two years following graduation and we came back to get married,” aiston explains. “We were going to go away again but stayed. Living in adelaide allows us to have a comfortable lifestyle while still being able to save that little bit of extra money, which means we can travel.” the decision to remain may have been a personal one, but it also serves them professionally by creating a point of difference with international suppliers and manufacturers only familiar with sydney and melbourne.
daniel emmadaniel emma’s other major point of difference
is the scale in which they work. at a time when so many industrial designers are creating larger scale work, to and aiston’s vessels and objects are a refreshing change of pace. amusingly, the choice to design on a small scale may have initially been borne of necessity due to a lack of space. “We lived in a small flat in London and we didn’t have a car, so we had to take the tube everywhere,” to laughs. Whatever the impetus, the savvy design duo soon realised that no-one else was making desk accessories and so they carved out their niche. not to be pigeon-holed, however, to and aiston’s most recent collections are not for the desk.
their Sweets collection, which was exhibited in Vera Chapter 2 at the 2012 London design festival, consists of a vase, container and candlestick. it is an elegantly resolved expression of form and colour that exemplifies what daniel emma does best. each product is breathtaking in its exacting simplicity and surprising in its robust solidity. Sweets also raises questions of influence via its vaguely 1980s postmodern memphis aesthetic. according to aiston, however, daniel emma’s influences are closer to home. “We’re not necessarily influenced by particular international designers or movements. We’re just designing things that we like and the things that influence these designs are from our everyday life.”
to maintain a broad design perspective, to and aiston travel to europe once a year, which also allows them the opportunity to reconnect with their many networks. it means they are
We’re not necessarily
influenced by particular international designers or movements. We’re just designing things that we like and the things that influence these designs are from our everyday life."
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daniel to and emma aiston
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regular exhibitors at both the London design festival and milan furniture fair, and it was at the latter that they were invited by Wallpaper* magazine in 2012 to collaborate with guerlain as part of the Handmade exhibition. creating a collection of polished brass and aluminium dressing table accessories allowed to and aiston to design a series of unexpected sculptural casings for the cosmetic giant. “We always like to create some sort of surprise in everything we do,” to says.
But perhaps the biggest surprise is yet to come with daniel emma exhibiting a collection of furniture towards the end of this year. to and aiston will be part of an exhibition curated by the Jacky Winter group and held in the collective’s Lamington drive gallery in melbourne. “Up until recently we haven’t had the space to make anything bigger, but we have a studio now,” says to. daniel emma is also currently working on a number of different projects with local companies and these will come to fruition towards the end of the year. “We also have the London design festival as a goal,” says aiston. “and milan… we only had a six to eight week turnaround period with the guerlain project last year. so we never know, something might come up…” and judging by daniel emma’s recent successes it’s a sure bet to say that something will come up.
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Steffen Lehmann
When australia’s chief scientist,
Professor ian chubb, recently
launched his national
research investment Plan,
some comments he made strongly resonated with
me. chubb said, “the most pressing concerns
for australian researchers were responding to a
changing planet and the challenges of the asian
century”, and “… we need to be in there right now
seeking solutions to some of these challenges”.
the china–australia centre for sustainable
Urban development at the University of south
australia (Unisa) has been developed to find just
those solutions – to the world’s environmental
concerns and the challenges and opportunities of
the asian century. the centre is part of a strategy
to develop close research and educational links
with top universities and municipalities in
china, with a view to establishing a sustainable
engagement for Unisa in a country that is
becoming increasingly important in science,
technology and design.
rethinking citiesthe University of south australia has teamed up with china’s tianjin University in developing the new china–australia research centre for sustainable Urban development (cac_sUd) to address the challenges and opportunities surrounding urban growth in the 21st century.
The ASiAn CenTury
the asia-Pacific region has seen rapid growth on
an unprecedented scale, drawing focus to a region
that is ambitious for economic advancement. china
has a strong awareness of sustainability issues
and a willingness to address these issues. With
china’s transformation to a knowledge-based
society, the global centre of gravity has started
to shift to the asia-Pacific region. australia is no
longer orientated toward Britain and europe as
it was in the earlier part of the last century. in the
21st century, australia’s relationship with asia is
characterised by an openness to and integration
with the region, which have accelerated over
the past four decades and laid the foundation
for australians to benefit from the opportunities
stemming from the region – such as the surge
in resource demand, rapid urbanisation and the
rising middle class in asia. as china’s middle class
increases, so too does their disposable income and
consumption levels.
CiTieS of Tomorrow
Urbanisation in asian societies involves hundreds
of millions of people—many times the number of
australia’s current population. the scale and pace
of urban growth in china is a defining feature
for many countries in the 21st century, with
profound implications for people everywhere.
it will be crucial how the asia-Pacific transforms
and develops its urban growth and that the region
adopts a sustainable approach to city development.
cities in the asia-Pacific will need to be kept
dynamic, inclusive, complex and vibrant, but also
healthy and resilient, ensuring wellbeing of their
of their residents and sustainable flows; these flows
need to go beyond flow of data and money to
include the sustainable flow of resources, materials,
energy, transport, water, biodiversity, nutrients and
food – cycling energy and material (waste) flows.
this goes far beyond the conventional thinking
of aesthetics and functional city form; it is about
the longer-term sustainability of urban settlements.
for forward-looking academics it is essential
to engage in the region and think beyond mere
low value-adding commodity exports. there are
dangers from growing pollution and greenhouse
gas emissions; with ever-growing energy
tianjin
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tianjin University – ranked in the top one per cent in
the country – is in tianjin, a city of 12 million people
located around 30 minutes by high-speed rail from
Beijing, and which the chinese government
identifies as a science ‘cluster’ city. there is a strong
synergy and overlay between both universities
cooperating through the china–australia centre
for sustainable Urban development.
the aim of the centre is to build a world-class
multidisciplinary research-intensive centre,
focusing on sustainable urban development. it
explores strategies to enhance urban sustainability
practices and policies in china, australia and other
cities in the asia-Pacific region. Leading experts
and practitioners in urban sustainability will
engage governments, businesses and other experts
to help solve challenges such as how municipalities
can better incorporate urban sustainability into
their strategic plans. the success of urbanisation
in the asia-Pacific will be critical to its economic
and social development.
governments and municipalities in the asia-Pacific
The aim of the Centre is to build a world-class multidisciplinary research-intensive
centre, focusing on sustainable urban development. It explores strategies to enhance urban sustainability practices and policies in China, Australia and other cities in the Asia-Pacific region.”
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will need to develop better incentives for people to
take action to protect our ecosystems, which we risk
destroying if we follow the consumption patterns of
the last two decades. this is particularly interesting
with regard to china’s increasing role as consumer
and australia’s as provider of natural resources.
in general, there are two solutions for this: see the
necessity to change ahead of time and adapt by
making changes; or don’t make the changes and
be finally forced to anyway.
technology must always be embedded into a
societal framework to be effective. the collaboration
signifies the universities’ commitment to furthering
china’s socially sustainable urban growth and
to local contributions that tackle global issues.
the role of technology alone is hereby limited.
While technological innovation has served to
reduce the impact of some long-term problems –
for instance, new technologies have dramatically
increased harvests and improved access to
education – technology doesn’t invent itself and
these achievements are always the result of decades
of hard work and investment in research programs.
the aim is also to scale up technologies, from
the building level to low carbon precincts, and
potentially to influence urbanisation activity in our
asian neighbourhood. the biggest opportunity for
emission reductions is in cities and buildings. some
of the biggest challenges are to understand what
drives human behaviour and bottom-up changes
– behaviour change to reduce consumption and
mobilise shifts in consumption patterns.
sharing the commitment to urban sustainability
with tianjin University allows us to develop urban
sustainability training programs through an
integrated collaborative approach.
reSeArCh
a growing proportion of global scientific research
is taking place in asia, countries in the region have
world-class research infrastructure and capabilities
and the scope for mutually beneficial research is
considerable. china has more researchers than any
other country and partnerships with research and
technology communities are crucial to supporting
australia’s ability to access new ideas and to build
our future competitiveness.
the interdisciplinary research program of
the centre focuses on the current state and the
transformative potential of cities in the asia-Pacific
region. the centre investigates the systemic design
and engineering challenges and potentials of the
urban environment in the 21st century.
the centre fosters the exchange of academic
staff and students, joint research projects and the
joint supervision of Phd students, and provides
consultancy services to industry and government.
research areas that relate to urbanisation include:
sustainable buildings, urban ecology, public space,
urban heat stress and the impacts of climate change.
research projects underway include the use of
timber for better high-rise infill developments;
zero waste construction using prefabrication; and
exploring urban heat island mitigation strategies
for cities in china and australia.
architecture, urbanism, environmental
engineering, ecology and landscape architecture
are some of the most potent disciplines available to
us to remake our cities as dynamic, meaningful and
sustainable cultural artefacts. the centre aspires to be
a living laboratory for urban exploration, influenced
by the geographical, cultural and historical position
in relation to the asia-Pacific region.
an urban sustainability training program to be
launched at the centre in 2013 will offer intensive
training in australia and china, and aims to provide
practical knowledge to chinese municipal leaders
on enhancing sustainability efforts. in february
2013 will be the china-australia symposium on
sustainable Urbanisation in adelaide, to be opened
by the Premier of south australia.
steffen Lehmann is Professor of sustainable
design at the University of south australia
and director of the china–australia centre for
sustainable Urban development
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retail Breakfast - Property Council
wednesday, february 6
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Thursday, february 21
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the reboot training seminar series will
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Design festival 2013
registrations close monday, february 4
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the new architects and graduates group
(nag) and adelaide city council have formed
a partnership to rethink the way public space is
procured and used in adelaide. a key element
of this partnership is a design competition,
design festival, which will display and promote
adelaide’s emerging design talent. if you are
a designer with strong ideas about how south
australia’s capital city could improve its public
spaces, form a team with other designers – this is
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Splash Adelaide - Vacant Space
Sunday, february 10
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vacant space is an open-air twilight street
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vacant space has been created as a temporary
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