Sustaining Places: Public Space Design in a time of loss

公共空间正在经历各种形式的丧失：环境的、象征的和精神的。由于这是民主健康的一个指标，这代表了我们在政治和文化上维持自己的能力下降。该项目旨在通过一种创新的公共空间设计方法来扭转这种颓势。它重新定义了公共空间，包括软边缘？环境。它确定了短暂的和表现性的遗产，这些遗产赋予了这些地方持久的特征。通过全球案例研究，以及对当前澳大利亚公共空间调试过程的深入研究，它确定了创建可持续场所的障碍，并定义了一个综合的理论和实践来产生它们。

Public space currently experiences various forms of loss: environmental, symbolic and spiritual. As it is an index of democratic health, this represents a diminished capacity to sustain ourselves politically and culturally. The project aims to reverse this decline through an innovative approach to public space design. It redefines public space to include ?soft-edge? environments. It identifies ephemeral and performative heritages that lend places their sustaining character. Through global case studies, and an in-depth account of current Australian public space commissioning processes, it identifies obstacles to the creation of sustaining places, and defines an integrated theory and practice to produce them.