Introduction

This chapter presents the work on reimagining suburbia, in particular with rapidly growing and ageing populations in mind. It focuses on platform of a new poetics of dwelling, and looks at small groups of houses and larger ensembles, aims to increase pedestrian permeability and to optimise the use of spaces between buildings. The chapter seeks to situate the instinctual local love of suburbia in the broader context of thinking about the city. It demonstrates the designs both a distributed–acupuncture-like–strategy and a series of concentrated–jujitsu-like–tactics. The chapter examines what role suburbia–still where most Australians live and want to live–has to play in meeting the needs of a densifying and ageing population. It proposes the release of the dynamic potentials that reside in the interfaces between suburbs and large service facilities–in this instance a university–that are located in suburbia.