5 Must-See Festivities

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5 Must-See Festivities
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• With so much to see at the 2016 International
  Festival of Landscape Architecture, here are our
  recommendations for a street furniture
  experience.

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1.  Flower Chairs

• Designed by former UNSW student Joshua Flowers,
  three Flower Chair prototypes will feature on the
  lawn of the National Gallery of Australia during
  the conference. Venture out from Gandell Hall
  in session breaks to test this variation on the
  movable seat chairs that swivel to your
  preferred viewpoint. 

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• With a design originally inspired by Google
  office furniture, the seat aims to give people a
  reason to stop and become involved in public
  space. WIN 200 worth of flowers from Interflora
  for someone you love. Post a selfie with a Flower
  Chair to facebook.com/streetfurniture for your
  chance to win. Winner will be announced shortly
  after the festival.

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2.  BackyardExperiment at Garema Place

• Inspired by the research of William Whyte,
  BackyardExperiment uses time-lapse video to
  observe how people interact with public space,
  and movable seats.
• Visit Garema Place to experience this
  community-built pop-up park in person, survey the
  60 movable seats and form some hypotheses about
  how the space will perform over its 8-day
  installation.

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• The time-lapse film will be made available
  shortly after the festival, showing how many
  people visited the park, how they interacted with
  seats and how they really do behave in public
  space.
• Built by the community for the community, enjoy
  free wifi, interactive street art, free wifi,
  plenty of movable seats, a pop-up library, pavers
  painted by local art students and trees decorated
  by yarn bombers.

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• The park is designed by Context and furnished by
  Street Furniture Australia, with support from
  AILA and In The City Canberra.

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3.  Batlow Cider Fountain

• Possibly the worlds first cider drinking
  fountain will flow two nights of the festival
• October 27 at the National Arboretum for the 2016
  AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards, and
  October 28 at the Garden of Australian Dreams in
  the National Museum for the Official Festival
  Party.Delicious cloudy apple cider has been
  donated in kind by Batlow Cider, and will be
  available on tap from our Arqua Drinking
  Fountain.

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4.  AILA Fellows Lunch

• An opportunity for AILA Fellows to connect at the
  National Gallery of Australias Sculpture Garden
  on October 29, featuring an all-female speaker
  line-up led by new AILA board member Linda
  Corkery FAILA. Graduate and AILA Fresh NSW Chair
  Brinlee Pickering will be in conversation with
  Jacinta McCann, FAILA, FASLA, LEED AP and
  Executive Vice President of AECOM.

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• Based in San Francisco, Jacinta leads AECOMs
  design, planning and economic practices globally.
  She was honoured in 2014 by the San Francisco
  Business Times as one of the 100 most influential
  business women in the Bay Area. Proudly sponsored
  by Street Furniture Australia and WE-EF LIGHTING.

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5.  Constitution Avenue Redevelopment by Night

• Jane Irwin Landscape Architects and Integral
  Lighting present a tour of the new grand
  boulevard on the night of October 29.
• Hill Thalis partnered with Street Furniture
  Australia to design a suite of custom benches,
  seats, tables, bin enclosures and drinking
  fountains especially for Constitution Avenue,
  featuring touches of brass.
• Chris Goris, National Sales Manager with Street
  Furniture Australia, will join the tour to speak
  about the design process.

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• The night showcases LED lighting with WE-EF
  luminaires illuminating the avenue and the
  Australian flag on City Hill, concluding at the
  beautifully lit BackyardExperiment in Garema
  Place.A pop-up park by landscape architecture
  firm Context and Street Furniture Australia,
  BackyardExperiment transforms the plaza for the
  Festival.

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