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Environment

Greening NYC: Piet Oudolf’s
New Perennialism

Words by Elliet Spring
Photos by Tina Berardi

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Assemblage

Cascoland Kolenkit:
Global Issues,
Local Contexts

Words by Robert Snelling

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EARS

EARS #36:
Autumn Mix by Tiny Ruins

Hollie Fullbrook in conversation with Cat McGauran

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Home Made

Easy
Noodle Salad

Words by Jenny O'Keefe
Photos by Carmen Bunting

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Assemblage


Yandell Walton: Social Change, Small and Large

Words by Emma McRae

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Blueprint City

Redesigning Renting:
Housing as a Service

Words by Alexis Kalagas

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Cascoland Kolenkit: GLobal Issues, Local Contexts

The neighbourhood of Kolenkit is not the sort of Amsterdam found in tourist brochures. But, in 2010, a group of community artists moved into “the most problematic neighbourhood in the Netherlands” and started working to improve Kolenkit's title. Rob Snelling tells the story of a community repaired with art and ingenuity.

Home Made

Easy Noodle Salad

Jenny O'Keefe is a Castlemaine legend: a celebrant and a self-taught cook. With Assemble Papers, she shares a recipe for an easy noodle salad to Cat McGauran (another transplant to regional Victoria).

Ears

Ears #36: Autumn mix by Tiny Ruins

For the 2019 season of our beloved EARS mixtape series, Assemble Papers is partnering up with Courtney Barnett and Jen Cloher's Milk! Records. to bring you a year of good tunes from the indie Melbourne music scene.  Opening act: Hollie Fullbrook of Tiny Ruins brings us a folkie mix titled, simply, 'Autumn'.

Assemblage

Yandell Walton: Social Change, Small and Large 

Yandell Walton is alarmed by climate change. Emma McRae speaks to the Melbourne projection artist whose ephemeral installations probe the impermanence at the very heart of existence.

Editorial

AP print issue #11: Transitions

As the eleventh print issue of Assemble Papers is about to land in Melbourne (and then travel beyond), editorial team Jana Perković and Cat McGauran explain some of the thinking behind the edition's theme. We live in a time that demands necessary change: but how do we face this urgency with a spirit of community and altruism?

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Happenings

Tai Snaith: A World of One’s Own

When: Ongoing
Where: Online, courtesy of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
How much: Free
More info: A World of One's Own

Happenings

A Night at the Nicholas: Winter Solstice Block Party

When: Thursday 20 June 2019
Where: The Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
How much: Free
More info: A Night at the Nicholas: Winter Block Party Edition

Happenings

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Issue 11 — Out Now

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#11: Transitions

Print issue #11 of Assemble Papers, 'Transitions', looks at necessary change awaiting our cities. From decolonising architecture in South Africa, to gentrification-proofing neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, to designing schools that foster creativity - now is the time to dream a little bigger.

Blueprint City

Nurturing Collective Creativity: Naomi Milgrom

Melbourne may be Australia's arts capital, but Naomi Milgrom is now pushing it to the forefront of Australia’s design conversation. Jana Perković speaks to the woman behind MPavilion and Living Cities Forum about the importance of dialogue and disagreement.

Blueprint City

Redesigning Renting: Housing as a Service

Sharing economy increasingly means that we subscribe to a service (transport, music, even clothes and cars) instead of buying the thing. But how does this work with housing? Alexis Kalagas continues his research into start-ups that are redesigning renting.

Editorial

AP print issue #11: Transitions

As the eleventh print issue of Assemble Papers is about to land in Melbourne (and then travel beyond), editorial team Jana Perković and Cat McGauran explain some of the thinking behind the edition's theme. We live in a time that demands necessary change: but how do we face this urgency with a spirit of community and altruism?

Assemblage

Yandell Walton: Social Change, Small and Large 

Yandell Walton is alarmed by climate change. Emma McRae speaks to the Melbourne projection artist whose ephemeral installations probe the impermanence at the very heart of existence.

Environment

Greening NYC: Piet Oudolf’s New Perennialism

Architect Elliet Spring lived in New York for most of her twenties. On her recent return, she was greeted by a different city: no longer so much a concrete jungle, but a city layered with rich, generous vegetation - from the High Line to The Battery. The turn has been in no small measure the influence of one person, Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf. Here, Elliet looks at Piet's seasonally sensitive, emotionally rich approach to planting, which has spanned a movement: New Perennialism.

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