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Marcus Foth

Brisbane
As seen in: Stuff.co.nz, Sydney Morning Herald, Taylor & Francis Online, The Conversation, Agenda (World Economic Forum), Phys.org, CNA (Channel NewsAsia), United Press International (UPI), Rappler, Publico (Portugal) and
Professor of Urban Informatics @QUT, Brisbane, Australia. Founded @UrbanInf & @QUTdesign, member of @QldGreens. #morethanhuman #design
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Seven new venues and one old Olympic problem: Brisbane 2032 is drifting away from the IOC’s New Norm

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By Marcus Foth
| The Fifth Estate
The IOC’s New Norm was meant to end Olympic overbuilding. Yet Brisbane 2032 is now an outlier with seven new venues, weakened climate language, and a revealing glimpse of how soft Olympic oversight really works. Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief. A simple comparison of Olympic host cities tells a revealing story.
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How the Greens could seize political gifts – like aircraft noise

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By Marcus Foth
| The Fifth Estate
What the Brisbane greenslide reveals about protest politics, engagement theatre and state capture. Aircraft noise is usually dismissed as a mere annoyance – the sort of issue caricatured as NIMBY politics. Yet in recent years it has revealed something far more interesting: understanding its strategic potential can be a political gift to progressive movements. Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
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Is this what we want for the Brisbane Olympics: copy & paste cities with sustainability as spectacle?

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By Marcus Foth, Rosa-Isabella Arba
| The Fifth Estate
Solarpunk promises regenerative, multispecies urban futures – but as its eco-futurist aesthetic travels from Singapore’s curated tourist icons to Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic transformation, sustainability risks sliding from systemic change into spectacle, and from ambition into greenwashing. Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief. Brisbane is reshaping itself under the banner of sustainability.
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