I’ve spent today researching around themes of culture, change, cities and communities, which are the broad concerns of the Placing project and the writing I will do for Proboscis' Transformation series. Fundamentally, I am concerned with how change happens, how values and beliefs come to be renegotiated for urban change and how, if such things are considered as memes, new memes are introduced. Change involves the introduction of difference and/or something new or other: change we are told i...
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At various times over the last few years, my partner, John, and I have spoken about how to renovate (adapt, retrofit) our home as well as our lives. We know full well that surbuban life does not have a flattering profile in sustainability termsas well as health and social terms. We've done what we can as we can afford it to change the way we live and green it up. Ours is a modest post-war weatherboard house. It's small with two bedrooms and mostly original kitchen. I've been undecided about r...
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