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There’s a city in my mind
The alkali flats of north-western Nevada’s Black Rock Desert are sparse and unforgiving. Flat and featureless yellow-packed playa (desert basin floor) stretches into the horizon under a 38-degree sun....
View ArticleWhere on Earth? mix by Louise Terra
Louise Terra is an electronic musician and producer. While her ethereal solo work marries dreamlike lyrics to electronic harmonies, you might know Louise better as Lemona Squeeze, one of six blazing...
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Under and Over and Into and Between Mix by Jon Tjhia
Jon Tjhia makes music with a band called Speed Painters, but mostly he makes radio. Making radio is a large part of his job as senior digital editor at the Wheeler Centre where, more broadly, he also...
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Escape to the Suburbs mix by Xander Byng
Never underestimate an Internet joke: Xander Byng is Bander Xyng to many. “Social media monikers can determine people’s assumptions of identity,” he says. Resisting identity determinants appears to be...
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The Scale of the Museum
Over ten years ago, while an undergraduate at UWA, I attended a talk at the Subiaco Arts Centre by the late Richard Neville. With his days as a counterculture warrior behind him, Neville had, in his...
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Blame Joanne mix by Toni Yotzi
Jo Lettenmeier is also Toni Yotzi – for musical endeavours. Resident Advisor has named her ‘one of Melbourne’s most tasteful deejays’, but this genre-hopping, famously eclectic DJ hails from Perth,...
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From URL to IRL
Picture the scene. You’re on your daily commute, catching the train from Fremantle into the city, head bowed, peering at your phone. A cavalcade of news stories, friends’ holiday snaps and random...
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AP x Liquid Architecture: AOYE MIX by Chun Yin Rainbow Chan
Liquid Architecture investigates sound in its broadest sense, with an annual program of events where contemporary art and experimental music intersect. Concerts, exhibitions, talks, reading groups –...
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Parklet Power
As councils across Australia strive to enhance their liveability, sustainability and competitiveness, parklets are proving popular. A poll of the 300-plus citizens gathered for the inaugural Perth City...
View ArticleSupercast: a multi-sensory experience
At Assemble Papers we look at the culture of living closer together, and how we can do that better. We are often asking what impact these environments have on things like our relationships, access to...
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Sound Diplomacy: The Social Value of Music
At the recent Melbourne Music Cities Convention, ARUP’s Bree Trevena pointed out that music is everywhere – it’s in our cars, homes, workplaces and in our headphones. It crosses spatial boundaries...
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There’s a city in my mind
The alkali flats of north-western Nevada’s Black Rock Desert are sparse and unforgiving. Flat and featureless yellow-packed playa (desert basin floor) stretches into the horizon under a 38-degree sun....
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AP x Liquid Architecture: Eavesdropping
From Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769): ‘Eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to harken after discourse, and thereupon to frame...
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On The Beach: From Shack to Sales Pitch
To the untrained eye, the central coast of Western Australia is a vast and seemingly desolate landscape. Sand dunes appear and disappear, like glaciers sitting on top of a thick green carpet of...
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Tomoko and Takaaki Shiratori in Komaba
For many months I ran past a particular house in Komaba, a Tokyo suburb nestled in between Shibuya and Shimo-Kitazawa. It always sparked my attention as it had a huge plum tree growing out of what...
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Come Together
Urban planners and designers are working to curb Perth’s sprawling ways, to create a more connected, productive and cost-efficient city. Logic, facts and statistics tell us that there are considerable...
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Owner Occupied
Geoffrey London: There are many models of building and living collectively, such as co-housing and baugruppen. Can you define these models? Kristien Ring: Co-housing, as far as it is understood in...
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Sea-change: Penelope Davis
Melbourne artist Penelope Davis’s work is usually situated in the realm of post-photography, in which photographs are brought to life without the use of a camera. To craft these ‘cameraless...
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5×4 Hayes Lane
Tucked in at the end of a narrow laneway in leafy East Melbourne, 5×4 Hayes Lane is not the typical home you’d expect to inhabit such a site. As its name suggests, the pocket-sized project boasts a...
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Helen Wright: Rise and Fall
“Over a period of 10 years, the imagery in my work has dealt with personal responses to human interaction with the natural world. The issue of habitat destruction and water degradation caused by the...
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