Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today
Edited by Esther Anatolitis
November 2024
Essays that created household words. Essays that triggered royal commissions. Essays that inspired global movements. Since the 1940s, Meanjin essays have set the national cultural agenda. Arthur Phillips’ ‘cultural cringe’ has become a household word, instantly conveying Australians’ sense of our place in the world while expressing our frustrations and our ambitions—and yet, very few of us know it came from an essay first published in Meanjin. Over half a century later, Chelsea Watego’s 2021 ‘Always bet on Black (power)’ roars with the fire of a manifesto; Hilary Charlesworth’s 1992 ‘A law of one’s own?’ challenges Australia’s legal system with a formidable feminist ethic; Tim Rowse’s 1978 ‘Heaven and a Hills Hoist’ passionately defends suburbia; David Yencken’s 1988 ‘Creative City’ sparks a global urban planning movement with artists at the centre. This anthology brings togethers twenty impactful Meanjin essays for the first time. An introduction by editor Esther Anatolitis offers critical context and scrutiny, illustrating how profoundly Meanjin essays have changed Australia.

Routledge Companion to Creativity and the Built Environment
Edited by Julie T. Miao and Tan Yigitcanlar
March 2024
Chapter (with Prof. Hélène Frichot): Collingwood Yards
This book critically examines the reciprocal relationship between creativity and the built environment and features leading voices from across the world in a debate on originating, learning, modifying, and plagiarising creativities within the built environment. The Companion includes contributions from architecture, design, planning, construction, real estate, economics, urban studies, geography, sociology, and public policies. Contributors review the current field and proposes new conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and directions for research, policy, and practice.

The Relationship is the Project (second edition)
UNSW Press, 2024
Chapter: The role of the institution
The Relationship is the Project features provocations, tools and practical tips for working with communities. This includes the ethics and logistics of working on community-based projects, from First Peoples’ leadership to climate justice, cultural safety to class, intersectionality to disaster recovery and more. This updated and expanded edition features contributions by more than 40 thought leaders across the arts, cultural and community sectors. It is a must-have resource for all community-engaged practice.

Place, Practice, Politics
AADR (Art Architecture Design Research), Spurbuch, Germany
March 2022
Place, practice and politics are what define us. They ground us deeply – but they can also unsettle us profoundly, exposing deep conflicts at the very heart of who we are… and, most often, when we’re right in the middle of getting on with everything that keeps us too busy to think it all through. Meanwhile, the world keeps taking shape around us, our work evolves, and distant decisions shape our lives. What futures are we designing by default? What collaborations are we complicit in? How can we incorporate an active civic engagement into our professional and creative practice – into our everyday lives? Esther Anatolitis presents a dynamic snapshot of her own practice from a distinctly Australian context but with a global perspective, offering tools and techniques for integrating that engagement into our daily practice. Taking leaps across spatial, creative, professional and political work, this is an unsettling text. Because what grounds us the most are the very tensions that unsettle us – and unless we engage them directly, we will continue to jeopardise our place, our practice and our politics.
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Lost Tablets
Edited by Jan van Schaik, 2022
Chapter: Köbenhavn
The Lost Tablets are a series of works by Jan van Schaik that explore the geometric language of architecture through the medium of children’s building blocks. The Lost Tablets book explores the tension between the ideal of a shared architectural language, and the intrinsically personal nature of architectural interpretation. Within the book, 50 authors respond to the first 50 works in the Lost Tablets series, with each author articulating their perception of one work, in their own language, and in a form corresponding to their own interests.

Her Voice: Greek-Australian Women and their Friends
Edited by Varvara Athanasiou-Ioannou, 2021
Chapter: Interview/profile, Stathia Anatoliti

The Relationship is the Project
Brow Books, 2019
Co-edited by Jade Lillie, Kate Larsen, Cara Kirkwood and Jax Jacki Brown
Chapter: The Role of the Institution
The Relationship is the Project is a vital new resource for emerging practitioners, artists and cultural workers looking to better engage with community-based projects. Creative producer Jade Lillie led this work as part of her 2018/19 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. The book includes insights into the ethics and logistics of working in community contexts from thought-leaders across the arts, cultural and community sectors.

Meanjin
Vol. 79, Issue 2 Winter 2020
Edited by Jonathan Green
Essay: The Long Tail of the Bauhaus

Permanent Recession
Edited by Channon Goodwin
Onomatopee 2019
Chapter: Research and Advocacy in the Visual Arts (discussion)
Permanent Recession: a Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance is an enquiry into the capitals and currencies of experimental, radical and artist-run initiatives in Australia. Excavating a shared history of independent practice stretching back to the 1980s, this publication situates new research within a rich continuum of debate about the Australian artmaking context. Part research, part advocacy document, part literature review, part reader, part position paper, Permanent Recession is a living contribution to current thought.

Griffith Review
No. 61 Winter 2020: Who We Are
Edited by Julianne Schultz
Memoir: The Stories We Don’t Tell

Meanjin
Vol. 76, Issue 2 Winter 2017
Edited by Jonathan Green
Essay: Arts for Our Sake

INDEX-SYSTEM
Exhibition catalogue 2016
Out of print

The Emerging Writer
Edited by Karen Pickering
EWF Publishing 2012
Chapter: How to make yourself a writing retreat
Every writer has to find their own way to emerge – there is no set route, no absolute path and no road that must be followed. But there is a lot we can learn from those who have travelled before us: how to get there more directly, how to bypass the road blocks, traverse the peaks and valleys, or which is the most scenic route. The Emerging Writer: An Insider’s Guide to Your Writing Journey Vol 3 is an insider’s guide full of valuable advice from fellow travellers – a resource you can keep within arm’s length, for when you need to consult that map again to help you find your way.

un magazine
Issue 5.2 2011
Feature: Art ⇄ Architecture
“The work of art gravitates a field, creates a space for exchange, unfolds a seating bank, anticipates a taped line on the gallery floor, commands a focal point in the city square…”