Our Friend Jack Made a Film...

Jack Mullaly, self-proclaimed Crazed Founder of Ideanthro, was commissioned by the Water by Design team at Healthy Land and Water to make a short film about our community co-design process for Small Creek.

Filmed on a glorious Queensland winter afternoon, during a tour organised by the River Basin Management Society, it shows the water running through riffles and meanders into large wetlands, planting starting to establish, and community infrastructure including a new cycle connection.

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Design Your Creek Week

Ipswich's Small Creek was once a meandering natural stream that flowed into Deebing Creek. Today, it’s a straight concrete channel that offers very little value to the community or environment.

That’s about to change: Small Creek will return to a natural waterway through a terrific Council project. As well as clean water and habitat for wildlife, the new Small Creek will allow for better path and bikeway connections and the opportunity to interact with nature in a parkland setting.

We're kicking off the project with Design Your Creek Week, working on site and learning from the local community. Click to read more and find out how you can be part of the fun.

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Field Trip: thoughts from Townsville

I was recently in Townsville for Evoke, the regional architecture conference.

My duties - if you could call something so enjoyable a duty - included hosting a session featuring Australian artist Robyn Backen, and landscape architects Matthew Flynn and Ana Maria Pinto from Costa Rican practice, VIDA.

My grandparents used to live in Townsville so it was a place I visited often as a kid. It's been a long time since I've been back, though, so here are a few thoughts from a whirlwind trip.

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