Should a robot ever be allowed to fold your laundry? It sounds like a throwaway question, but it cuts right to the heart of what the Australian home is becoming. In Part 2 of this bonus episode, recorded live at Metricon’s National Love of Design Summit, Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock hands the microphone to the audience, and the panel of Ali Whelan (Breathe Architecture), Michael Leung (Balanced Earth Architects), Neil Hipwell (Futureflip) and James Treble takes on questions no one saw coming.
Together they imagine the Australian home of the future, smaller, smarter and far more adaptable, explore why builders who’ve created some of the most high-tech houses in the country are quietly stepping away from the tech, and answer the question that nearly stumped all four of them: what’s the internal compass that drives you?
Listen: Part 1
Listen: Part 2
“I think that technology will inherently become part of our lives, but that we ran with technology too far in some instances. And so, we’re taking a few steps back… we’re looking at how to do things simply and affordably first.”
Ali Whelan, Breathe Architecture
“Technology breaks. I’ve done alot of high tech houses and we basically don’t really use any of that tech… every time something breaks, it’s $10,000 to send a crew down to replace all the things that are outdated.”
Neil Hipwell, Futureflip
Listen now: This episode of The Edit is available via the iHeart app, homebeautiful.com.au, or wherever you get your podcasts watch below or listen here.
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