Greater Melbourne Area
Claire Martin is an award-winning landscape architect and Associate Director at OCULUS, known for her systems approach across a range of scales from insect hotels to public spaces, up to statewide greening strategies. With a career spanning two decades, Claire has curated projects across Australia and internationally, focusing on material thinking, and landscape performance, creating places that support connection and resilience. A Fellow and past National President of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, she is a sought-after speaker and design advocate. Passionate about mentoring, Claire invites the next generation of designers to reimagine their role, in improving our everyday.
In this issue of Landscape Architecture Australia entitled “The Moving City,” we explore our embodied capacity to dwell and be moved, the diminishing of meaning and the loss of quiet, perception and impermanence, exchange and dissonance, fluidity and flux, and traces of memory in a re-situated city. This issue is about life and serves as a reminder that we have the capacity to turn thought into action. Through the lenses of Microcosm, Mesocosm and Macrocosm we explore the elusive moving city.
Research into ‘Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation across Australia’s built environment’ Australian Research Council Grant DP200101378. This 3 year project (2020-2022), funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant, to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation and mitigation across Australia’s built environment sectors: design, urban planning, construction and property. Cities are significant contributors to climate change, but actions are presently limited, and unintegrated across sectors. The project expects to generate new knowledge to advance climate change action. An expected outcome is a framework to guide decision making in the built environment. Through communication to practitioners and policy makers, this project plans to provide significant benefit for Australian cities and society: progressing climate change action, informing investment decisions, and reducing the harm and cost predicted from climate change.