New product videos, case studies, demonstrations and smart city documentaries.
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#BackyardExperiment 10MIN
How do you activate an underused concrete area in just 8 days? In partnership with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Street Furniture Australia conducted a social experiment in Garema Place in Canberra’s CBD. Using techniques inspired by American placemaking expert William Whyte, this short documentary explores the power of public space and its significant impact on users and communities.
#BackyardExperiment was designed by Context, and was the recipient of the 2018 Australian Smart Cities Award, 2018 AILA ACT Landscape Architecture Award for Community Contribution, and the 2017 Research Project Award NSW from Parks and Leisure Australia.
Making of the Aria Smart Bench: Concept to Good Design Award 2.30MIN
This video takes us through the making of the Aria Smart Bench, from research with users and designers to concept, testing and refining prototypes, to winning the 2019 Good Design Award.
How eBin Saves You Time and Money 2MIN
An Escola eBin by Street Furniture Australia is a great low-risk start to your smart city journey. See how it reduces waste, makes collection more efficient and improves safety.
Aria Seating System 2MIN
Aria is a modular kit of parts including seats, benches and connector panels to allow designers to create Curves, Rings, S-shapes and Back-to-Back settings. Use reliable standard parts in site-specific custom configurations.
Design Your Experience with Aria 30SEC
Modularity allows you to tailor Aria for the experiences you want to provide for your community. Customise settings for dining, working, socialising, rest and play – all with standard parts.
Chinchilla Botanic Parklands, Water Play Park 30SEC
Honouring Chinchilla’s status as Australia’s ‘melon capital’, the town’s exciting new waterplay park is inspired by watermelons, enhanced by Mall Sun Lounges with tailored battens in white, green and pink.
Vivid Sydney in Action, 2019 1MIN
Street Furniture Australia helped two young architects from CM+ with the design and build of colourful, immersive artworks for Sydney’s annual festival of light, music and ideas.
Introducing ARIA (available 2018) 1MIN
Take a sneak peek into ARIA with PowerMe Table scheduled to be released in 2018. ARIA is a modular seating system that can be built into any shape you want. PowerMe is a future-proof wifi charging table.
How Remove an In-Ground Bollard 1MIN
Kieran takes us through the steps of removing and replacing an in-ground bollard.
Factory Timelapse 16SEC
Street Furniture Australia is a proud supporter of Australian manufacturing. Our production team is dedicated to Toyota LEAN practices to minimise waste and maximise quality. All core products are dispatched from the floor, based in Regents Park in western Sydney. Watch the factory in action.
Durability of Street Furniture 30SEC
How durable are Street Furniture products? Our team travelled around Australia to take footage of how furniture items were faring many years after installation. Although no longer ‘perfect’, all the products observed had aged well in a wide range of environmental conditions.
#CiderFountain 39SEC
At the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture, we served Batlow Apple Cider through our Arqua Drinking Fountain. We advise not to try this at home!
Broadcasting from a shipping container studio in South Fremantle in the city of Perth, Western Australia, independent not-for-profit community radio station Freocast shares music and storytelling by local voices. A passion project for Fremantle architect and long-serving community radio broadcaster Nick Juniper, the online station is supported by volunteers and local partners to broadcast a range of community-based shows and DJ mixes, and hosts events onsite. Juniper says the station creates a connective space: “Fremantle has a very strong, engaged and passionate community, and I created Freocast as a way of providing an opportunity for a wide variety of voices and opinions to have a chance to broadcast,” he told StreetChat. “We also felt strongly about creating a physical space where the community could come together, connect, listen to music …
Plant diversity in urban green spaces led to sevenfold increase in insect species New research suggests that the introduction of even small green urban spaces can dramatically improve local biodiversity. A study lead by Dr Luis Mata of the University of Melbourne and Cesar Australia examined the ecological outcomes of planting 12 indigenous plant species on a small 195 square metre plot in Melbourne, adjacent to a major road. The research, Mata told The Guardian, “Was conducted in a very densely urbanised area, completely surrounded by streets and relatively tall buildings, and with limited access to surrounding green space.” The researchers identified the presence of 94 insect species, with 91 indigenous to the Australian state of Victoria. They estimated that by the final year of the study there were about …
Cumberland City Council, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and Street Furniture Australia in November co-hosted a factory tour and knowledge exchange for Councils about creating great public spaces and local manufacturing. Guest speakers presented enriching case studies and conversations about Country, climate, culture and community at the Street Furniture Australia factory, which is located within the Cumberland LGA in Western Sydney. 55 people attended the event. Head of Marketing and Innovation with Street Furniture Australia, June Lee Boxsell, said, “Activating Western Sydney was a fantastic opportunity to share ideas on bringing joy to our local communities while also celebrating the completion of Merrylands Civic Square — a remarkable human-centred development at the heart of Cumberland City Council. “With Street Furniture Australia positioned right at the doorstep of Western Sydney-based …
