Paul Carter Phone: Think like a designer: it's all you need to succeed To success in business nowadays you need to have a fresh approach. It is no longer enough to look back and say, it was ever thus. To do this means you will never be innovative, never find a new way of understanding the audience or custoner. To survive the 21st century you need a new approach to the way you think. Find our why you need to think like a designer – and why this is the subject all the best business schools are now offering. Collecting chairs This week in our regular Trends and Products segment, the product we´re discussing is the chair and the trend, well I suppose has been around for some time: people´s passion for collecting chairs. Dark Writing Since the publication in 1987 of The Road to Botany Bay, his essay in spatial history, Paul Carter has been keeping a unique eye on landscape of his adopted country. But he´s been intervening in more material ways too, working as a designer on a number of public spaces. He´s now Professorial Research Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Melbourne, and his new account of place-making, Dark Writing, has just been published. John Curtin's house in Perth You may have heard news stories a couple of weeks ago which announced that Curtin´s house – at 24 Jarrad St, Cottesloe, Perth – will be restored and protected as part of our political and cultural heritage. Former prime minister John Curtin and his family lived in the house from 1923 through to when he died in 1945, some 11 weeks before the end of WW2. The family owned the house till it was sold to the government in 1998.

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