julian raxworthy
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(last revised: 7th April, 2006)

I am a full-time PhD student, studying in the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, at the University of Queensland. I began at mid-year in 2003 and plan to finish by March, 2007. My supervisor is Dr John Macarthur and my associate supervisor is Dr Antony Moulis. My PhD concerns change and landscape architecture.

Talking about your PhD, I have discovered, is a very difficult thing. I had thought that it was just lazy doctoral students being pretentious, not wanting to have to explain in to people who they had deemed would not understand it. Now I realise oit is a kind of horror. It's the Sublime. It's being on a life-boat of one word in a sea of 80,000.

I welcome any correspondance with authors whose work intersects my own, particularly if they can direct my to their own writing or that of others, that I can refer to and use to refine my topic. I am trying now to concentrate on discussion of specific projects, before finally returning to my literature review.

Overview (NEW)
The following are various presentations I have given that discuss my PhD interest in change more informally, but are nonetheless useful to understanding the argument:

• My recent paper at the 4th European Landscape Architecture Bienale in Barcelona, in March 2006, and the PDF visual that accompanied it;
• Here is a draft version of my article from the AR Landscape architecture special edition "_andscape", that I am edited.
• I also gave a lecture at UNITEC, in November, 2005, that has a fair summary of my thinking (here in point form

Proposals
The following are the documents describing my doctorate, formally, as it has progressed, roughly chronologically:

• This document is from my first conversational visit to UQ to discuss my interest's in the PhD, whilst still at RMIT
• A handout that I produced for one of my first PhD presentations, prior to my candidature
• One of my earlier proposals, prior to my candidature
• My UQ confrimation document, submitted in 2004, and subsiquently revised
• A recent poster (this year) explaining my doctorate, as it currently stands.

Formal Essays
The following essays I have published, mostly refereed, that attempted to scope out the theoretical base of what I am talking about, and link it to the PRACTICES of gardening. These were mostly scoping pieces, to be true:

• (2003). "Landscape Symphonies": Gardening as a source of landscape architectural practice, engaged with change. PROGRESS, University of Sydney, Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
• (2004). Transactions with chance in the garden. LIMITS, RMIT University, Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
• (2004). "Writing gardens - gardening drawings: Fung, Brunier and gardening as a model of landscape architectural practice." Landscape Review Special Issue: CELA 2004 - Here and there? 9(1): 196-200.
• (22 April, 2005) “Labour, Tactics: Inside and Out .” Inside Out. IDEA Conference, Domain House, Melbourne. This went through refereeing but I chose not to finally publish it, after discussions with Kenneth FRampton (helpful but hard)

Bits in Progress (NEW)
Slowly but surely, i am accelerating toward finishing by the end of the year. The following are project descriptions of a couple of the projects I will be looking at. These are in a first draft format, in various states of disrepair..

• (2006). Discussion of Chateau Courances
• (2006). Discussion of Bordeaux Botanic Gardens

Other Writings
The idea of change in relation to landscape architecture is one that has interested me for while, for example:

• (2001). "(Devo)lution." Kerb(9): 74-77. I ran a studio that did a masterplan for 100,000 years for a catchment in the Tarra Valley, in Victoria, Australia.
• (2001). "The Lie of the Land." Monument(40): 94-97. This is an article by me on Roel van Gerwen, of Vista, the Netherlans, whose work meade me realise that there was contemporary precedent for this kind of approach.
• (2004). "Landspace landscapism." Architectural Review Australia(88): 24-26. This is a book review of "landscape urbanism", that relates to my general critique of design generation techniques as a solution to change in design.

I am going to put stuff up here without thinking about quality, as I think it is important to have ones ideas "ot there". ANy writers or thinkers out there whose work intersects with mine, please email me.

All articles provided are done so on an "as is" basis - for the proper citation, or to review the article as published, please consult the published edition. Copyright is retained by the author and the publisher. Where possible, permission to use these articles has been obtained, however should publishers wish to exercise their rights, please email me.

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