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Produced By: Coast Access Radio Rosalind Derby
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Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment.
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Local Architecture Now - Final episode - with Ellen Young, MD of Paper Road: Connecting Community and Place
Published: 19/1/2025 12:30 p.m.
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. Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Local Architecture Now - with Joel Cosgrove - social geographer
Published: 22/12/2024 12:30 p.m.
We speak with Joel Cosgrove, social geographer, core curator of Wellington’s Eyegum Music Collective, discussing their Welcome to Nowhere festival as placemaking, our urban 3rd spaces and collective public space. He suggests that much that we worked on in the past shows more example than the works of present development. Time to think back as we think forward. Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment.
Local Architecture Now - with artist Micheline Robinson and placemaking activism and creativity in Hoylake
Published: 27/10/2024 12:30 p.m.
French Canadian contemporary artist Micheline Robinson, resident in Kapiti Aotearoa, tells her story of placemaking activism and creativity in Hoylake town on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool. In 2009, Micheline, amid renewed growth as an artist, awoke to the declining town quality of Hoylake and the many small towns in the Wirral Borough Merseyside and did something about it. As a leading figure in the focus for this regional revitalisation, Micheline’s colourful narrative sets up parallels for our current placemaking awareness here locally, nationally and internationally. https://www.michelinerobinson.co.nz/ Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Local Architecture Now - with Michael Gloster, author of 'The Shaping of Noosa'.
Published: 29/9/2024 12:30 p.m.
Michael Gloster, author of 'The Shaping of Noosa', is an architect, urban designer and policy planner. He discusses the 40 year history of he and his brilliant Noosa Council colleagues in shaping the iconic Noosa coastal district, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Anyone who knows Noosa and all of us passionate about coastal environment and human settlement planning, can be enriched by this world- leading urban and regional parks development story. Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Local Architecture Now- with Afdel Aziz discusses his groundbreaking documentary 'The Genius of the Place'
Published: 01/9/2024 12:30 p.m.
Afdel Aziz (The Conspiracy of Love) discusses his groundbreaking documentary ‘The Genius of the Place'. This is an extraordinarily beautiful film, introducing us to Geoffery Bawa and his architecture in Sri Lanka. Bawa (1919 – 2003), recognised as one of the influential architects of the twentieth century, devoted his work to a discovery of a contemporary Sri Lankan sense of place. Afdel’s interview reveals the importance of the film as a story of Bawa’s life and work within the utterly beautiful Sri Lankan geography, Bawa’s beloved place. Afdel enchanted his film with special interviews among the talented Sri Lankan architects, artists, and craftspeople with whom Bawa collaborated, to bring forward his formative expression of a de-colonised Sri Lankan architecture. Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
