Telling community stories with architecture with Isabelle Toland

Episode Description

For many, it can be difficult to understand how architecture can help us reflect who we are as a community. How can buildings and public spaces tell the stories of our culture, our history, and our lifestyle? How can we use architecture to bring people together and not push them apart?

For Isabelle Tolland, Director of ambitious architecture firm Aileen Sage, these are uplifting challenges to overcome, for which her practice is best known. 

Many would consider Aileen Sage doyennes of weaving the complex array of community perspectives in their community master plans, public works and art projects.They bridge different worlds and people with divergent spirits and lifestyles to find the points of connection.

Join Isabelle as she explains Aileen Sage’s process to find that spirit of collaboration that helps reveal who we are through architecture.

Find out

• How Isabelle unites the community around an architectural vision.

• The stories which have inspired her creativity and how Isabelle has translated those stories into her work.

• Examples of how culture, history and lifestyle have been successfully united in architectural works.

• What you can expect from Isabelle at the Illawarra Festival of Architecture & Design on the 27th of October.