URBAN PLANNING + POLICY

A New Normal
Melbourne Design Week 2025

Wurundjeri Country, Boyd Baker House, "Long Forest VIC"

Working with SBLA, Winsor Kerr reconsidered the power structures that inform planning control and the policies that shape our urban sprawl, approaching both from the perspective of Country, of non-human animals, and of the things that don't have a voice at the table.

FOR

A New Normal, founded by Finding Infinity

WITH

SBLA

PROJECT TEAM

All of SBLA, all of Winsor Kerr

COMPLETED

2025

BUDGET

It cost us money

A New Normal at Boyd Baker House: living room with red sofas facing a stone fireplace lettered "What if we considered our approach with concepts that centred care for kin and Country?"
Window lettering reading "You need to be able to smell seasonal change" over linen curtains
Window lettering reading "You need to understand where the water is flowing", looking through a stone-framed window into a leafy courtyard
The same "You need to be able to smell seasonal change" lettering seen closer, in soft light against the curtains
View from inside through glass lettered "You need to see the new growth of endemic eucalypt species", looking out to a stone chimney and bushland
Window lettering reading "You need to be able to see the sky" across a small stone window, with blue sky and gum trees beyond
"You need to see the new growth of endemic eucalypt species" lettered across glass, with a stone wall and bushland garden beyond
View through a lettered glass door into a bedroom, with linen curtains and a paper lantern
Timber and glass front of Boyd Baker House, with door lettering reading "You need to see the new growth of endemic eucalypt species" and potted plants outside
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