Biophilic design takes this idea and harnesses nature’s design patterns to transform living and working spaces for the better. Through a presentation and interactive workshop learn practical and simple ways to apply these design ideas to your home and garden, large or small, owned or rented.
Biophilic design takes this idea and harnesses nature’s design patterns to transform living and working spaces for the better. Through a presentation and interactive workshop learn practical and simple ways to apply these design ideas to your home and garden, large or small, owned or rented.
The Geelong Nature Festival created a community journey of events over the six different landscapes across Wadawurrung Country during six weeks. To represent a final gathering together of humans and nature, the Festival concluded with the creation of a unique large-scale art installation on the sand of the 21st Century Garden in the Geelong Botanic Gardens.
Learn about what is happening in green infrastructure and design and how it can transform our cities to be biodiverse and resilient spaces. A panel of speakers will address topics such as transforming urban car parks for food and biodiversity.
Discover Barwon Park through the creative response of local artists, whose installations and artworks interrogate the site for Trust Contemporary: Barwon Park Reimagined.
The Nature of Us is an exciting, community photographic exhibition about the need to recognise nature in our city and the role it plays in our wellbeing. We are inviting people to send in images of how nature helps them feel a sense of belonging to where they live. This is an initiative of The School of Lost Arts, Geelong, together with the City of Greater Geelong Department of Environment and Biodiversity and Revitalising Central Geelong.
Uncover the wonders of biophilic design in the city on this interactive trail
Experience what nature can teach us about how to live better in the urban environment.
**I am sorry to inform you that the City of Greater Geelong has decided to cancel the Geelong Design Week to minimise the potential of spreading Coronavirus ( COVID-19)**
This event is part of Geelong Design Week 2020, an initiative of Geelong UNESCO City of Design and the City of Greater Geelong.
In 2019 the School of Lost Arts in association with Deakin University hosted Geelong’s first Biophilic Design event during the Melbourne Design Week.
Earthed Not Wired will continue this concept at a time of new focus on our relationship with nature and the way we live in cities. It is a one-day examination of the importance of the deep connection we have to the natural world and how recognising that helps us design better homes, schools and workplaces that support our natural affinity with the natural world.
The principles of biophilic design will be looked at through an all-day offering of practical design workshops, talks, installations and panel discussions from leading exponents in the field of design, planning, urban farming, art, architecture and urban and landscape planning. The event will take place at the unique location of a restored 1850s house with one-acre urban farm.
It is aimed to challenge participants to think deeply, recognise the urgency of our situation and see the design possibilities of our urban environment with a fresh perspective.
This event will be a one-day symposium and immersive experience of the importance of biophilia, our innate and fundamental need to be in nature. How we design our homes, workplaces and cities to include more of it and be better places in which to live.
Using the unique location of a restored 1850s house with one-acre urban farm, the importance of biophilia will be explored though direct sensory experience, design experimentation, indoor and outdoor installations, talks and panel discussions. The historic perspective of our changing urban garden landscape and the way it impacts our lives will be put into context.
The inaugural Geelong Nature Forum is an initiative of the Geelong Field Naturalists Club, in partnership with City of Greater Geelong, which aims to showcase our natural wonders to the community through a series of short talks from local biodiversity experts. The Forum will also have activities for kids (and adults) and stalls promoting our amazing environment groups and volunteers.
The School of Lost Arts will be attending the event with some of our birds from our public art project, “Now You See Us”
Check out the day's program here.
Celebrating all things growing, nurturing and preserving tomatoes - with master classes, tastings, unique sales and many other special activities. The School of Lost Arts are excited to be offering this event In partnership with Open Gardens Victoria.
Christmas is fast approaching but the solution to your gift worries is here at the School of Lost Arts Christmas Artists Market!
A one day design course for the home gardener.
Discover the Style that’s right for you.
Join landscape designer Stephen Read and owner Mary-Jane Walker for an evening in the grand dining room at ‘Chesterfield‘, one of Geelong’s oldest surviving Georgian homes and surrounded by a beautiful garden. Held as part of Garden DesignFest 2016, the Chesterfield soirée includes a talk by Stephen and Mary-Jane about the historic property.
