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Architecture for kidsArchitecture for kids podcast with Mary Featherston AM Adjunct Professor at RMIT UniversitySend us a textI thank Antonio Capelao, and Architecture for Kids for the opportunity totalk about ideas which I believe are vital for both children and architecture/ schools and schooling. Schools may be places of learning and delight - for young people and adults - their teachers.Support the showHosted by founder Antonio Capelao, and co-produced with the Built Environment Trust, the Thornton Education Trust, and the Welsh School of Architecture Cardiff University .These short and to-the-point podcasts hope to improve the interplay between the f...
2023-12-3134 min
Uncommon SenseGraham Readfearn With A Global Environment Update; Rembrandt: True To Life – His Prints, Drawings & Paintings At The NGV; Tim Ross On Why He Loves Modernist ArchitectureAmy Mullins returns to the airwaves. The Guardian Australia's Graham Readfearn delves into the latest global environment news, including a mass coral bleaching event happening across the Americas, UNESCO's determination on the health of the Great Barrier Reef, Antarctic sea ice at historic lows, and more. The NGV’s Cathy Leahy, Senior Curator of Prints & Drawings and Conservator of Paintings Caitlin Breare join Amy to discuss their exhibition, Rembrandt: True to Life, featuring the work of 17th century Dutch master, Rembrandt van Rijn. They give us insights into Rembrandt's fascinating life, his print-making, oil paintings, and drawing practice, as we...
2023-08-222h 17
The Art of TeachingMary Featherston AM: Designing great spaces for children, adaptability over flexibility and why rich pedagogy requires rich environments.Mary Featherston AM is an Australian interior designer and designer of child-friendly play and learning environments. She is known both for her furniture and design collaboration with Grant Featherston, as well as her work researching and designing educational spaces for children.
In 2020 Mary was made a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for her significant service to the arts, especially industrial and interior design.
Here are some publications about Mary:
https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/design-life-grant-and-mary-featherston/
https://www.design.org.au/hall-of-fame/mary-featherston
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2023-07-161h 02
The Featherston Booktown PodcastEpisode 2: Mary BiggsIn this episode, Shane Te Pou and Phil Quin talk to Featherston Booktown Operations Manager Mary Biggs about some of the highlights of the 2023 Festival programme.The Festival Programme can be found at: https://www.booktown.org.nz/Tickets available HERE.Produced by Denver Grenell & Phil Quin for Featherston Booktown. Engineered by Huck Jackson at Radio Waatea.Edited by Denver Grenell.Musical theme by Kolya Marks.Artwork by Chris Miller.https://www.booktown.org.nz/
2023-04-2012 min
Kankakee Podcast#78: 10 Most Listened to Episodes of 2022Happy New Year! Lizzie and I countdown the 10 most listened to episodes of Kankakee Podcast in 2022. What episodes do you think made the cut? Which one came in first? Listen to find out! 2022 has been an incredible year for Kankakee Podcast. I'd like to thank you from the bottom of my heart this year for all of your love and support. Without your support, this podcast would not be possible. I feel like this isn't my podcast but OUR podcast. Here's to a prosperous 2023! An additional heartfelt thank you to o...
2022-12-311h 22
Kankakee Podcast#34: 10 Most Listened to Episodes of 2021Here's who made the cut for the 10 most listened to episodes of Kankakee Podcast in 2021! Did your favorite make the list? Listen to this episode to find out! Special thank you to: Seth & Mary Burkey, Josh LaMore, Brianna Whittler, Franklin & Anna Weber, Dawn & Jim LaMore, Lizzie Yolich, Noble Dairy Queen Stores, KCC Foundation, Digital World Design, Kankakee City News, Kankakee County Museum, Veronica Featherston, Gorak’s Pest Control, Martial Arts Academy in Bradley, Brenda Whittler - Thirty One Consultant, Allison Ascher - Coldwell Banker Realty, All Automotive, all of our guests and most impo...
2021-12-301h 34
Design ConversationsMary Featherston AM: Interior & furniture designer, early childhood environmental designerMary Featherston, together with her husband Grant, have been seminal figures in Australian Design, delivering high-profile projects over decades in mid-century Australia. Mary has been celebrated in the field of children’s early-learning environments, working with schools, childcare centres and museums, and she continues as a consultant and advocate in this sphere.
See the full show notes for more details.
2021-09-1446 min
Wigtown Book Festival PodcastFestival 2020 Day 9: Featherston Book TownOn today's episode we're teaming up with our sister book town, Featherston, to celebrate all things New Zealand. Featherston became a full member of the International Organisation of Booktowns two years ago in 2018 and so we’re taking the opportunity to present an episode with a distinctive New Zealand flavour. We talk to the former poet laureate of New Zealand, Selina Tusitala Marsh, about what life was like as a poet laureate and how poetry found her. We discuss what it's like to teach a course on Scottish crime fiction in New Zealand and find out more about a Dunedin-James Ho...
2020-10-0254 min
The Design Files TalksTDF Talks With Iconic Designer Mary FeatherstonAside from her prolific design work with her husband Grant, Mary is a rigorous and passionate designer in her own right, with a particular focus on children’s learning environments. She’s worked with schools, childcare centres and museums, and continues to work as a consultant and an advocate in this space.
I had a chance to speak with Mary about her and Grant's legacy, the challenges of being a woman and a mother working in design in the 1960s, and her ongoing passion for designing innovative learning spaces for children.
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2019-02-0753 min
The ClappersA Feather(ston) in your capAndrew wonders who today's Prime Minister is, while Karl takes a trip out to Heide to look at - but not sit in - some of the most perfect examples of the work of Australia's most famous furniture designers. Grant and Mary Featherston make a showing at the NGV too, in an exhibition about the NGV. Meanwhile, Karl is still reeling from the ending of Sharp Objects, and Better Call Saul morphs into Breaking Bad redux. It's all here on your favourite pop culture podcast. Karl Quinn is on Twitter, Facebook an...
2018-09-0338 minUncommon SenseUncommon Sense - 3 July 2018Curators Kirsty Grant and Denise Whitehouse join the program to talk about the latest exhibition at theHeide Museum of Modern Art,'Design For Life: Grant and Mary Featherston', which explores the career of Grant Featherston, a pioneering Australian modernist furniture designer, and his professional and personal partnership with Mary Featherston. David Ritter, CEO ofGreenpeace Australia Pacificjoined Amy to talk about his new book, 'The Coal Truth: The fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy'. PlusNew Matilda'sNational Affairs Correspondent Ben Eltham on the latest in federal politics.
2018-07-031h 48
MPavilionMRelay—Part 2: 'Play' • Sat 4 Feb 2017The second lap of MRelay was Play.
What can be learnt from seeing Melbourne as a playground? Recent decades have seen a rise in playful practices in the public spaces, ranging from street art to skateboarding to parkour. From flash mobs to urban gardening. From performative interventions to location-based digital games. In social frameworks how can play be used as a tool to promote inclusion, and improve and increase life opportunities and boost community morale? Architecturally, how can the concept of play trigger us to rethink traditional urban infrastructure and address important social issues and challenges by creating new experience...
2017-02-241h 45
Talking DesignArchitect John Henry - Talking Design 2013 - Ep04Architect John Henry first came to attention with his unusual warehouse style home in Research. Inspired by Architect Robin Boyd's Featherston house designed for Mary and Grant Featherston in 1967, Henry's house includes multi-level platforms hovering above dirt floors. Henry's love of designer furniture is on display in his home including furniture by Marc Newson, Grant and Mary Featherston and Frank Ghery.http://www.johnhenryarchitects.com.au/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2013-04-2221 min