During the 1970s a wave of counter-culture people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population; concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters; these people resisted the bureaucratic state but; in the process; they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Awesome - Sumitas book is a Call to ArmsBy DaphneSumita Sinha is the founder of Architects for Change; the RIBA Equality and Diversity Forum. In her new book which sits in tandem with her MA course of the same title at London Metropolitan University; lsquo;Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resourcesrsquo;. Her lively and engaging prose addresses us all as lsquo;development activistsrsquo; and we become instant recruits. She employs her own breadth of vision honed over twenty years in several countries to persuade us into making connections and daring to look at contradictions.It is a survey of current paradoxes in the world and asks questions of ourselves. Sumita takes us into the lsquo;heart of darknessrsquo; and we see various innovative practices and our awareness is raised kicking and screaming into the margins of life such as slums; informal settlements; cities and a phenomena she calls lsquo;glocalisationrsquo;.The Ultimate in alternate materials? A door made of human excrement at the Museum of Toilets; New Delhi; in order to change peoplersquo;s minds about human waste. Will you change yours? p. 102.The book is packed with lively narrative intermingled with facts; images and her own photographs that boggle the mind; challenge our assumptions; engage and inform us from the safety of the printed word. Much like the slum it is teaming with life and raises a poignant visceral smell that repels and attracts in equal measure. Sumita has created a triumph of a book.Daphne Chalk-Birdsall; Academic Liaison Librarian for Architecture and Interior Design at London Metropolitan University
