Creative Places
With a passion for contemporary urbanism nurtured at the Bauhaus, as well as creative regional development nurtured in leadership and consultancy roles, Test Pattern focuses strongly on creative place and civic realm work.
This work has involved the development of a unique methodology and schema for understanding creative places, locating Test Pattern clients at the nexus of comprehensively analysed Australian and international best practice.
Urban and regional
From precinct development and cultural policy and masterplan advisory, to the design of entire cities. Clients have included City of Melbourne, City of Greater Bendigo, Consolidated Land & Rail Australia, Federation Square, International Urban Screens Association, Southbank Precinct Melbourne, and the ACT Government, for whom Test Pattern has recently delivered the ten-year strategy for Kingston Arts Precinct – a strategy that has been recognised with a forty-year funding commitment.
Festivals
Festivals test urban conditions, exposing new potential. Past festival clients include the Antipodes Festival, Big West Festival, Freeplay Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Mildura Palimpsest, National Young Writers’ Festival, and This is Not Art.
Esther Anatolitis is a long-term external critic, lecturer and examiner at RMIT School of Architecture + Urban Design. At the turn of the millennium she collaborated on Serve City: Interactive Urbanism at BauhausDessau as the DAAD Künstlerprogramm Resident, then went on to co-curate Architecture+Philosophy for ten years with Prof Hélène Frichot. Esther’s past leadership and governance roles span multiple festivals as well as regional cities and towns, and she was a founding director and Deputy Chair of Contemporary Arts Precincts, the social enterprise behind Collingwood Yards.
IMAGE: One of the first gatherings at Collingwood Yards prior to its official opening, with events hosted by West Space and Liquid Architecture. Photo by Esther Anatolitis.