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McMansion to micromansion: How can you challenge the great Australian dream?

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Friday May 20, 2011 at 8:30am

Auditorium 2, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Cultural Centre, Stanley Place
South Bank,   Brisbane
Queensland,   Australia

Cost: Free, bookings required
PLEASE NOTE: This session has now sold out. A vodcast will be available on the Ideas Festival website.

IDEAS FESTIVAL 2011

From the programme:
The concept of ‘bigger is better’ has been challenged by Malcolm Holz and collaborators Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole with the introduction of Hutwheels. Taking up the international trend of micro housing, which has seen shipping containers and pod houses spring up in New York, Tokyo and London, Malcolm brings to the Australian market a possible solution for affordable and sustainable living. In a landscape where space is at a premium and resources in demand, could this micromansion spark a rethink of the great Australian dream?

Malcolm Holz
Malcolm Holz has over 25 years experience as a designer working within property development companies to turn creative ideas into commercial innovations. He has been instrumental in influencing the design of thousands of small lot homes in south east Queensland, from Green Street to Kawana Island and beyond. Malcolm has worked with leading architects such as Gabriel Poole to progress the small home movement in Australia. He is also a recording artist and guitarist performing regularly in his home town of Maleny where he lives with his family in a hermitage of small huts.

 

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