By Design

Since the publication in 1987 of The Road to Botany Bay, his essay in spatial history, Paul Carter has been keeping a unique eye on landscape of his adopted country. But he's been intervening in more material ways too, working as a designer on a number of public spaces. He's now Professorial Research Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, and his new account of place-making, Dark Writing, has just been published.

The new book asks why we represent the world as static when our experience of it is mobile, and how our representations of the world can embody more sensuously the mobile histories that have produced it. This week, Paul Carter talks to us about his views of landscape and our ways of representing it.

Guests

Paul Carter
Professorial Research Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne

Publications

Title: Dark Writing: geography, performance, design
Author: Paul Carter
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press

Presenter

Alan Saunders

Producer

Mark Wakeley

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