Jana Perkovic
@relatively.bsky.social
Strategic design & innovation, especially housing. PhD at Melbourne Centre for Cities, ex SPACE10, Assemble.
We literally have a solution for this, but it's ethnic so we're not allowed to talk about it? Hang the goddamn clothes on your balcony...? 😵
How to dry laundry without a dryer when it's cold or wet outside
Simple, effective ways to dry laundry indoors when it’s wet outside and you don’t have access to a dryer.
www.abc.net.au
May 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We literally have a solution for this, but it's ethnic so we're not allowed to talk about it? Hang the goddamn clothes on your balcony...? 😵
Love this title.
‘Worked perfectly’: how wildlife team finally caught Valerie the dachshund after 529 days on the lam
Kangala Wildlife Rescue revealed the strategies and remote-controlled trap that secured the capture of tiny 4kg sausage dog
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Love this title.
That moment when your first peer reviews come back and one calls your work "sophisticated" and the other "fabulous" 😭😭😭 and this after it took me a week to muster the courage to read it 🙈
April 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
That moment when your first peer reviews come back and one calls your work "sophisticated" and the other "fabulous" 😭😭😭 and this after it took me a week to muster the courage to read it 🙈
In the current situation, not being part of Horizon is an incredibly short-sighted decision. I worked at Horizon briefly, using my Australian experience to design huge funding programs that Australian researchers couldn't access. Being Australian was a huge limitation and it shouldn't have been.
‘It was a mistake’: Australia fails to sign up to $163b research fund
As Australia loses research funding following a Trump crackdown, academics believe the government has failed universities by rejecting multiple invitations to join Europe’s largest fund.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
March 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
In the current situation, not being part of Horizon is an incredibly short-sighted decision. I worked at Horizon briefly, using my Australian experience to design huge funding programs that Australian researchers couldn't access. Being Australian was a huge limitation and it shouldn't have been.
Uhmmmm yes except Denmark, at least, has had an integrated nationwide tap-on-tap-off system for at least as long as I've been living here (and a much larger PT network than NZ!)...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/new-zea...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/new-zea...
New Zealand to introduce world-first nationwide tap-on-tap-off system for public transport
New Zealand is set to become the first country in the world to have a nationwide swipe-on-swipe-off public transport ticketing system.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Uhmmmm yes except Denmark, at least, has had an integrated nationwide tap-on-tap-off system for at least as long as I've been living here (and a much larger PT network than NZ!)...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/new-zea...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/new-zea...
I am back on Bluesky just to add a couple of words on the Neil Gaiman allegations.
If you cannot access the below article, try here: archive.is/HJtxW
If you cannot access the below article, try here: archive.is/HJtxW
January 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I am back on Bluesky just to add a couple of words on the Neil Gaiman allegations.
If you cannot access the below article, try here: archive.is/HJtxW
If you cannot access the below article, try here: archive.is/HJtxW
When I started researching the global fire sale of affordable housing to vulture funds, I hoped it was a blip, and we would course-correct. Well, last week I gave up. Nothing short of a paradigm shift will save us 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
November 17, 2024 at 9:33 PM
When I started researching the global fire sale of affordable housing to vulture funds, I hoped it was a blip, and we would course-correct. Well, last week I gave up. Nothing short of a paradigm shift will save us 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
This is the only good thing to have happened all week.
I think we’ve all had this reaction to politics as usual lately.
November 17, 2024 at 5:17 AM
This is the only good thing to have happened all week.
Reposted by Jana Perkovic
Gardiner Expressway?
If you've fantasized about blowing up your local expressway blocking access to the waterfront, here's what it looks like (Rio de Janeiro)
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Gardiner Expressway?
Tonight I'm giving a lecture about financialisation of housing and specific challenges faced by tourism-heavy regions and small towns. These places are usually left out of the discussion because they are far less homogenous than big cities, but their challenges are in some ways more interesting.
November 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Tonight I'm giving a lecture about financialisation of housing and specific challenges faced by tourism-heavy regions and small towns. These places are usually left out of the discussion because they are far less homogenous than big cities, but their challenges are in some ways more interesting.