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New Zealand Architecture Now

New Zealand Architecture Now

Written by: Rosalind Derby
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 Monthly sessions with Rosalind Derby and others, discussing architecture and urban design with a focus on place, community, and environment.

Buildings act to mediate between people and site.
Buildings allow us to place ourselves meaningfully in our environment and form our physical relationship in our community.Copyright Rosalind Derby Art
Episodes
  • 61, Special Episode with Matthew Colloff

    61, Special Episode with Matthew Colloff
    Jul 31 2025
    Matthew Colloff, an environmental scientist at ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society , is the author of the marvellous book: ‘Landscapes of our Hearts: Reconciling People and Environment’.
    In this brilliant conversation, he sets us off on a journey of place, country, landscape, urbanism, community, culture, architecture and society.
    Currently working in public policy, researching and advising on adaptation to climate change, he speaks to the interaction between values, rules and knowledge in adaptation decision making.

    ‘Landscapes of our Hearts:’ won the 2021 NSW Premier's History Award in the NSW Community and Regional History category.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • 60, final episode with Ellen Young

    60, final episode with Ellen Young
    Jul 3 2025
    The inspiring and active Ellen Young is Managing Director of Paper Road: Connecting Community and Place.
    Based in Whanganui, with her unique previous ‘placemaking’ experience at Whanganui District Council, Ellen is now in a position to lead and advise community co-design processes with local councils in our regions.
    Her discussion highlights the advocacy processes with councils and communities in activating vital street and public place urban design schemes.
    There is much to learn here from her philosophical, yet feet on the ground, knowledge of these important contemporary works.
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    1 hr
  • 59, Joel Cosgrove

    59, Joel Cosgrove
    Jun 26 2025
    We speak with Joel Cosgrove, social geographer and core curator of Wellington’s Eyegum Music Collective.
    We discuss their Welcome to Nowhere festival as placemaking, our urban 3rd spaces and collective public space.
    He suggests that much of what we worked on in the past shows more examples than the works of present development. It's time to think back as we think forward.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
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