Malcolm Holz is a singer and songwriter, urban planner, designer, and developer, and a sketch journalartist, with a deep passion for place and music making.
+61 408 425 518 :: malcolm@holzink.com
Malcolm Holz is a singer and songwriter, urban planner, designer, and developer, and a sketch journalartist, with a deep passion for place and music making.
+61 408 425 518 :: malcolm@holzink.com
The creative suburb is a provocation: a series of new building and urban designs available for innovators operating in new suburban greenfield situations in Queensland, Australia. The creative suburb drew on significant primary research with suburban home-based creative industries workers, vernacular architecture, and town planning in the Toowoomba region, and comprised construction of a new, progressive prototype ‘homeworkhouse’ in Clifton, Queensland.
The creative suburb included production of a book featuring building concept plans and urban designs for a creative suburb made up entirely of "homeworkhouses" especially designed for creative work, as well as a short video explaining the prototype building.
The creative suburb has a simple message: we should be providing for micro-small mixed-use and business everywhere.
"Flexibility is the new sustainability"
building and urban designs for suburban innovators
is the product of Malcolm’s Doctor of Creative Industries (Research) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (2016). The ‘thesis’ was a first for QUT: along with traditional approaches to research, it involved production of a book and a building prototype.
Read the research behind the book and building here.
Register an expression of interest in a hard copy of "The creative suburb" book here.
featuring building concept plans and urban designs for a creative suburb.
"12 Blues Bar, the building"
A new 'homeworkhouse' changing the way we live work learn invest innovate and play in the suburbs.
Watch the video here.
The creative suburb
performance
The creative suburb
light house
The creative suburb
book extract
The creative suburb
book cover
The creative suburb SDP conference paper (2015)
Sustainable Development and Planning Journal article (2016)
Malcolm Holz - The creative suburb on Youtube
with a general enquiry or register an expression of interest in a hard bound copy of The creative suburb book.