Associate Professor Christine Garnaut

Adjunct Associate Research Professor UniSA Creative

City West Campus (K3-12)
tel +61 8 830 20204

email Christine.Garnaut@unisa.edu.au

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About me

Christine Garnaut is Adjunct Associate Research Professor in Planning and Architectural History. She was founding Director of the Architecture Museum (2002-February 2020) in the School of Art, Architecture and Design at UniSA and of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Research Centre, UniSA (2017-February 2020).

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About me

An historian, Associate Professor Garnaut's research focuses on Australian twentieth century planning and architectural history. She is particularly interested in the contemporary application of historical ideas, for example in the conservation and management of heritage places. Her book, Colonel Light Gardens: model garden suburb (Sydney: Crossing Press, 1999, reprinted 2006), based on her PhD thesis, was the first published account of a planned Australian garden suburb. Her doctoral research and book informed objectives and policies for the Colonel Light Gardens Plan Amendment Report (PAR) (2000) and Conservation Management Plan (2005). She was recognised for her contribution to the PAR, winning the inaugural Edmund Wright Heritage Award (2003) together with Mitcham Council and the Colonel Light Gardens Historical Society.

Associate Professor Garnaut has undertaken a variety of projects funded by the Australian Research Council and other government and industry sources. South Australian Department of Water (formerly Environment and Heritage) funding led to the development of an online biographical database, Architects of South Australia, managed by the Architecture Museum, and to the Architecture Museum monograph series. NATSPEC funding supported the development in 2018 and 2019 of a national framework for archiving digital architectural records. Associate Professor Garnaut is immediate past president (July 2018-July 2022) of the International Planning History Society, a past member of the Board of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums (icam) and former convenor of icam Australasia, a regional network of institutions, organisations and professional bodies holding architectural and allied records.

Research

Research focus

Historical Studies
Urban and Regional Planning
Built Environment and Design
History and Archaeology
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields

Highlights

Australian 20th century planned environments - urban, rural and remote settings
Australian 20th century architectural history
Australian university campus planning
Architectural and built environment archives

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2018	Freestone, R & Garnaut, C 2018, 'Beginnings: the evolution of metropolitan planning to the late twentieth century', Planning Metropolitan Australia, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 26-50. Open access
2016	Garnaut, C & Avey, S 2016, ''A peep from the dome' Adelaide in 1887', in C Garnaut, J Collins and B Jolly (eds), Adelaide's Jubilee International Exhibition 1887-1888, Crossing Press, Australia, ch. 6, pp. 85-93.
2016	Garnaut, C 2016, 'Flora Crockett Stephenson (1914-1979): a life and professional partnership in planning', Planning Perspectives, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 505-531. Open access 1 1
2012	Garnaut, C 2012, 'Gordon Stephenson and University planning: a pleasurable professional pursuit', Town Planning Review, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 377-395. 1
2012	Garnaut, C, Freestone, R & Iwanicki, I 2012, 'Cold War heritage and the planned community: Woomera Village in outback Australia', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 541-563. 6 6

Books

Year	Output
2016	Garnaut, C, Collins, J & Jolly, B 2016, Adelaide's Jubilee International Exhibition 1887-1888: the event, the building, the legacy, Crossing Press, Sydney, Australia.
2013	Collins, JA & Garnaut, CM 2013, 'Not for ourselves alone' : the South Australian Home Builders' Club, 1945-1965, Architecture Museum, Australia.

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Garnaut, C 2023, 'Garden city and garden city ideas', in K Van Assche (ed)., Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design: Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series, Edward Elgar, US, pp. 156-158.
2018	Freestone, R & Garnaut, C 2018, 'Beginnings: the evolution of metropolitan planning to the late twentieth century', Planning Metropolitan Australia, Routledge, UK, ch. 2, pp. 26-50. Open access
2017	Freestone, R, Garnaut, C & Nichols, D 2017, 'Tertiary education and postwar reconstruction: the first Australian planning programs', in AI Frank & C Silver (eds), Urban planning education, 1st ed., Springer, Switzerland, ch. 6, pp. 101-118. 1
2017	Garnaut, C 2017, 'Town planning in the garden city of the south: the state of play to 1914', in M Oppenheimer et al (eds), South Australia on the Eve of War, Wakefield Press, South Australia, ch. 7, pp. 115-136.
2016	Garnaut, C & Avey, S 2016, ''A peep from the dome' Adelaide in 1887', in C Garnaut, J Collins and B Jolly (eds), Adelaide's Jubilee International Exhibition 1887-1888, Crossing Press, Australia, ch. 6, pp. 85-93.
2016	Garnaut, C, Collins, J & Jolly, B 2016, 'Afterword', in C Garnaut, J Collins and B Jolly (eds), Adelaide's Jubilee International Exhibition 1887-1888, Crossing Press, Australia, pp. 351-352.
2012	Cys, J & Garnaut, CM 2012, 'Evidence through research', Design South Australia, Integrated Design Commission SA, in association with Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 140-143.
2009	Garnaut, CM & Round, KA 2009, ''Pedlers' of new ideas': promoting town planning in South Australia 1914-1920', in R Freestone (ed.), Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform: histories of Australian Town Planning Associations, Sydney University Press, Sydney, ch. 4, pp. 120-127.
2009	Garnaut, CM & Round, KA 2009, ''The kaleidoscope of town planning': planning advocacy in postwar South Australia', in R Freestone (ed.), Cities, citizens and environmental reform : histories of Australian town planning associations, Sydney University Press, Sydney, N.S.W., ch. 7, pp. 203-234.
2008	Garnaut, CM 2008, 'The Adelaide Parklands and the endurance of the greenbelt idea in South Australia', in M arco Amati, Urban Greenbelts int he twenty-first century, Ashgate, Hampshire, England, pp. 107-128. 2

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2021	Garnaut, C & Gold, JR 2021, 'Interrogating voices from the past: making use of oral testimony in planning historical research', Planning Perspectives, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 1297-1304. Open access 1 1
2020	Bird, L & Garnaut, C 2020, 'From stock paddock to tertiary education campus: fifty years of planning and development at The Levels, 1970-2020', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 48, pp. 117-135. Open access
2016	Garnaut, C 2016, 'Flora Crockett Stephenson (1914-1979): a life and professional partnership in planning', Planning Perspectives, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 505-531. Open access 1 1
2014	Garnaut, CM 2014, 'The planning and design of Murdoch University : the foundation years', Circa: the Journal of Professional Historians, vol. 4, pp. 26-37.
2012	Garnaut, C 2012, 'Gordon Stephenson and University planning: a pleasurable professional pursuit', Town Planning Review, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 377-395. 1
2012	Garnaut, C 2012, 'ICAM Australasia: supporting the development and promotion of architectural and allied collections in Australia and New Zealand', Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 122-126.
2012	Garnaut, C, Freestone, R & Iwanicki, I 2012, 'Cold War heritage and the planned community: Woomera Village in outback Australia', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 541-563. 6 6
2012	Garnaut, CM 2012, 'The Architecture Museum, School Of Art, Architecture and Design, University Of South Australia', Museums Australia Magazine, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 24-28.
2012	Garnaut, CM 2012, 'icam Australasia: a regional network of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums', Museums Australia Magazine, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 28-29.
2012	Hutchings, AWJ & Garnaut, CM 2012, 'The private development company and the building of planned communities in post-war South Australia : Reid Murray developments, Realty Development Corporation and their successors', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol. 40, pp. 96-116.
2011	Garnaut, CM & Collins, JA 2011, 'Engraving the past: architectural prints from the Chamberlin collection', Place: Official Publication of the Australian Institute of Architects (SA), September, pp. 9.
2011	Garnaut, CM 2011, 'S'adapter aux circumstances. Defis, opportunities pour les principes d'acquistion d'archives d'architecture en Australie (-Meridionale)', Colonnes, vol. 27, no. June, pp. 44-46.
2010	Collins, J, Lustri, S, Bird, L & Garnaut, C 2010, 'Civic spaces for children: playground design in twentieth century South Australia', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol. 38, pp. 73-92.
2010	McDougall, A & Garnaut, C 2010, 'Navigating the personal to create the public: in search of South Australian architects', Oral History Association Of Australia Journal, vol. 32, pp. 34-42.
2009	Hutchings, AWJ & Garnaut, CM 2009, 'Suburban design in metropolitan Adelaide: principles and products', Australian Planner, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 44-52. 1
2008	Garnaut, CM, Marsden, S & Freestone, R 2008, 'A Methodology for Assessing the Heritage of Planned Urban Environments: An Australian Study of National Heritage Values', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 156-175. 13 8

Conferences

Year	Output
2018	Garnaut, C 2018, 'A vision for arts led urban renewal in Adelaide and the City West Campus of the University of South Australia', The 18th International Planning History Society Conference, International Planning History Society, pp. 1-10. Open access
2018	Garnaut, C 2018, 'Remaking Adelaide's West End: The contributions of the University of South Australia's City West Campus, stage one', in I, McShane, E, Taylor, L, Porter et al (eds), 14th Australasian urban history planning history conference, Australasian Urban History Planning History Group & RMIT University, pp. 168-177. Open access
2016	Garnaut, CM, Collins, J, Bird, LM & Anderson, E 2016, 'Cherished sites of remembrance: Soldiers' memorial gardens', in C Bosman & A Dedekorkut-Howes (eds), UHPH 2016 Icons: The Making, Meaning and Undoing of Urban Icons and Iconic Cities: 13th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference, Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group and Griffith University, pp. 139-152. Open access
2015	Garnaut, C 2015, 'An "innovation" at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries : a town planning course in the architecture department 1949-1955', in P Hogben & J O'Callaghan (eds), 32nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, SAHANZ, vol. 32, pp. 194-205. Open access
2014	Freestone, R, Garnaut, CM & Nichols, D 2014, 'The beginnings of tertiary planning education in Australia 1949-1950', in C Silver & D Zhu (eds), 16th International planning history society conference, University of Florida, Florida, pp. 389-403. Open access
2014	Garnaut, CM 2014, 'Envisioning and planning the future of Adelaide's metropolitan foreshore : from marine boulevard to coast park', in C Silver & D Zhu (eds), 16th International planning history society conference, University of Florida, Florida, pp. 323-339. Open access
2012	Garnaut, CM 2012, 'Flora Crockett Stephenson (1914-1979): forty years of collaborations in planning', 15th International Planning History Society Conference (IPHS 2012), Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, pp. 1-15. Open access
2011	Garnaut, CM 2011, 'Gordon Stephenson and the Radburn Idea in University Planning', 3rd World Planning Schools Conference: WPSC2011, University of Western Australia, pp. 1-14. Open access
2010	Bird, LM & Garnaut, C 2010, 'Planning for playgrounds: town planning and the supervised children's playgrounds in twentieth century South Australia', Green fields, brown fields, new fields: the 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History conference, University of Melbourne, pp. 28-43.
2010	Garnaut, C 2010, 'Gordon Stephenson and campus planning in Australia', in NZ Glersoy et al. (eds), 14th International Planning History Society Conference, Istanbul Technical University, pp. 35-48.
2010	Garnaut, C, Freestone, R & Iwanicki, I 2010, 'Home on the Range: the planning and design of Woomera Village, 1947-2009', 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference: Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields, University of Melbourne, pp. 145-158.
2009	Garnaut, CM 2009, ''Everyone was for bungalows': suburban expansion and the rise of the bungalow in post-World War 1 South Australia', The Pacific Connection: trade, travel and technology transfer, University of Melbourne, pp. 150-156.
2009	Nichols, D & Garnaut, CM 2009, 'Social innovation on the Murray irrigation frontier: the 1890s to the 1920s and beyond', in Miles Lewis (ed.), The Pacific Connection: trade, travel and technology transfer, University of Melbourne, pp. 130-157. Open access
2008	Garnaut, CM & Round, KA 2008, ''The Kaleidoscope of Town Planning', the Town and Country Planning Association and Planning Advocacy in Post-war South Australia', in Christopher Silver, International Planning History Society, pp. 878-890.
2008	Round, KA & Garnaut, CM 2008, ''Peddlers of New Ideas': The South Australian Town Planning and Housing Association, 1914-1924', in Lynette Finch, University of the Sunshine Coast.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

President, International Planning History Society

Convenor, icam Australasia (International Confederation of Architectural Museums regional network)

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Oxford Brookes University	UNITED KINGDOM
Professional Historians Association (South Australia) Inc.	AUSTRALIA
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Tasmania	AUSTRALIA
University of the Sunshine Coast	AUSTRALIA
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Wisconsin-Madison	UNITED STATES

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Special Commendation, Excellence in Graduate Research Leadership Australian Council of Graduate Research	2018
Board Member International Confederation of Architectural Museums	2017
Member Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand	2017
Member Oral History Association of Australia, South Australia Branch	2017
Member International Confederation of Architectural Museums	2017
Member Professional Historians Association, South Australia Branch	2017
Vice-President and President Elect International Planning History Society	2017
Board Member International Confederation of Architectural Museums	2016
Member International Confederation of Architectural Museums	2016
Vice-President and President Elect International Planning History Society	2016
Board Member International Confederation of Architectural Museums	2015
Executive Member Council of the International Planning History Society	2015
Member International Confederation of Architectural Museums	2015
Vice-President and President Elect International Planning History Society	2015
Board Member International Confederation of Architectural Museums	2014
Vice-president and President elect International Planning History Society	2014
Editorial Board Member Planning Perspectives	2011

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Urban development by approach of landscape urbanism in suburban micro landscapes	Current
A strategic waste management framework and tool for the development of zero waste cities	Completed
Acres of Adelaide: everyday people, processes and patterns in a settler-colonial urban plan 1836-1881	Completed
Building the Education Revolution: a revolution or a missed opportunity?	Completed
Collaborative urban design for stakeholder engagement in world cultural heritage conservation: a practical study in the context of the citadel wall in Hue, Vietnam	Completed
Exploring the written wor(l)d: writing as a spatial practice	Completed
Planning for open space in postwar South Australia: open space benefits and local open space systems at Elizabeth, Noarlunga and Golden Grove	Completed
The architectural practice as a professional service firm: HASSELL	Completed
The role of cultural heritage in the sustainability of remote planned communities, with a case study of Woomera, Australia	Completed

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