Community Engagement

  • Our practice is actively engaged in the cultural life of our city and community. We have recently collaborated with artist, Rod Garlett and sculptor Richie Kuhaupt on a major urban art commission in the Kings Square development in Perth, as well as children’s arts projects in our local community.  Fred is a Governor of the WA Museum Foundation and a member of the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation.

  • Fred Chaney is the Chairman of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) in Perth. AUDRC is a leading post-graduate centre for urban design and planning research and is affiliated with some of WA’s leading urban development organisations including the Department of Planning, the Metropolitan Development Authority, the Public Transport Authority and the Department of Housing.

  • Fred Chaney is a regular lecturer and tutor at the School of Architecture, Landscape and the Visual Arts at the University of Western Australia. He is also a former Governor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. In recent years he has delivered numerous presentations and papers including:
    Illuminating Thoughts, UWA Centenary Celebrations, February 2013
    Stainless Steel in Contemporary Architecture, Nickel Institute, Hong Kong, November 2012
    A Case Study (for Green Tactics), the Bakery, August 2012
    The Living Building Challenge Project, Retrofitting for Energy Conference, July 2012
    Connection-Destination-Integration (for Campus Dev.), TEFMA Conference, March 2011
    Innovative Learning Spaces, ATEM Conference, April 2009
    Cox Architecture (for Merge) February 2010
    Recent Architecture, the Bakery, October 2008

  • Civic engagement and advocacy comes in many forms. In the case of our practice, it anchors much of our work in master planning and urban design.

    Planners and developers are also recognising the commercial value of good urban design – and that well-designed spaces and environments translate into good commercial as well as good civic outcomes. This applies equally to small scale projects such as the urban renewal and revitalisation achieved through the re-purposing of three small-scale, heritage buildings in William Street, Perth as much as to larger scale endeavours such as our work with the State Library at the Perth Cultural Centre.

    In every case, our objective is to create places with a sense of ‘Belonging.’  We seek to deliver welcoming and inclusive environments that can be comfortably and readily inhabited by the known, as well as the future and unknown, inhabitants of each place.