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UDLA UDLA is a collaborative team of multidisciplinary designers delivering landscape-led projects grounded in real places and people.

Studios in Walyalup (Fremantle) & Naarm (Melbourne).

Another event we’re excited to host for this year’s Fremantle Design Week is this sketching workshop with Tessa Beale an...
22/09/2026

Another event we’re excited to host for this year’s Fremantle Design Week is this sketching workshop with Tessa Beale and Pete Woodward.

In it, Tessa and Pete will share some tips and tools to observe and translate the views from UDLA’s balcony into postcard sketches.

Tickets include snacks and a beverage and the good feeling of knowing that all money will be donated to Bush Heritage Australia.

More info and the link to tickets in our bio.

The superbly talented Ross Potter will be giving a sketching workshop on our balcony for Fremantle Design Week and there...
17/09/2026

The superbly talented Ross Potter will be giving a sketching workshop on our balcony for Fremantle Design Week and there aren’t many spots left.

Our hot tip is to get in quick if you’re interested in learning from him - you won’t be disappointed. PS - all money from ticket sales will be donated to St Pat’s, so it’s win win win.

Link to tickets and more info in our bio!

So great to see the METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line project amongst the excellent projects shortlisted for the Landscape...
11/09/2026

So great to see the METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line project amongst the excellent projects shortlisted for the Landscape Australia Awards – Urban Design category. Huge congratulations to our design partner – always a pleasure collaborating with you! And big shoutouts to everyone else involved in the project from inception through to completion.

Project details:
Client: Laing O’Rourke, for METRONET
Aboriginal Country: Whadjuk Noongar
Dates: 2022 - 2024
Landscape Architect: UDLA & TCL
Collaborators: Laing O-Rourke – Managing Contractor, Woods Bagot - Lead Consultant Architect, TRCB – Support Architect, Noel Morich – Cultural Advisor, New Ground Design Services – Irrigation Consultant, Arup – Structural Engineer, Jacobs – Civil / Services Engineer

Photographs - 1&3: Yvonne Doherty 2: Trevor Mein

A couple of months ago, we welcomed Dr Cass Lynch to our Walyalup studio for a conversation about language, ecology, and...
23/06/2026

A couple of months ago, we welcomed Dr Cass Lynch to our Walyalup studio for a conversation about language, ecology, and deep time.

Cass – a Koreng Wudjari Noongar woman, writer, and Research Fellow – shared the story of rescuing 40 trapdoor spiders from construction in the Porongurup Range National Park alongside Dr Leanda Mason and the Friends of the Porongurup Range. Ancient presences in an ancient landscape, trapdoor spiders are the oldest recorded living spiders known to science.

Facing no legal protection for the spiders and a timeline that didn’t give much bureaucratic wriggle room, the team chose collaboration over protest. It’s not individuals who successfully protect Country, Cass reflected. It’s communities.

Cass also introduced First Lights – Kinjarling, a series of immersive experiences along ancestral pathways led by Menang knowledge-holders and artists, and shared a snippet of Borongur – a story of the Porongurup Range seen through the eyes of a granite peak, a trapdoor spider, and the moon.

Huge thanks to Cass for all that you shared, to Sam Shepherd for leading the conversation that followed, to everyone who joined us to listen and to Cole for the photos.

📷 Cole Baxter
Cass Lynch
Kaala Barna Aboriginal Consultancy

Over the past months, the UDLA team had the privilege of joining Dylan Collard of Kalyakoorl for a series of Noongar lan...
18/06/2026

Over the past months, the UDLA team had the privilege of joining Dylan Collard of Kalyakoorl for a series of Noongar language lessons – a journey that moved through greetings, emotions, seasonal indicators, landscape features, and local species.

Dylan is a generous teacher, and the sessions were as much about truth-telling as they were about language. The two are inseparable – learning Noongar Country through its language means learning the stories, knowledge systems, and histories embedded in it.

Kalyakoorl is dedicated to revitalising and celebrating Noongar language, and for UDLA (a practice rooted in landscape and place), these sessions were a reminder of how much deeper our understanding of Country can go. Language is one of the most direct pathways into that knowledge, and we’re grateful to Dylan for sharing his with us.

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Image 2 by Cole Baxter

Huge congratulations to our colleague Federica for getting registered with the Australian Institute of Landscape Archite...
16/03/2026

Huge congratulations to our colleague Federica for getting registered with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).
Brava!

Draw your favourite WA insect for a chance to win a book! To complement the Deep Time Connections: Language, Lore, and t...
12/03/2026

Draw your favourite WA insect for a chance to win a book! To complement the Deep Time Connections: Language, Lore, and the Trapdoor Spider conversation by Cass Lynch (our previous post), the walls of UDLA’s Walyalup studio will showcase drawings of insects endemic to Western Australia.

How to enter / details:
Choose your favourite insect that’s considered endemic to WA. Draw it in whatever medium you wish.
Email a digital copy of your drawing (5MB or less) to [email protected] before 5pm March 24, 2026. Include the name of the insect, your name and the reason why you chose it.
The drawing will be printed on A4 paper and pinned to the walls of the UDLA studio on the day of Cass Lynch’s talk. It will include your name, the insect’s name and your reason for choosing it.
The winning drawing will win a copy of Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now, featuring a story by Cass Lynch.
Artists retain copyright of all drawings submitted. UDLA reserves the right to publish some submitted drawings (with artist attributions) on our website.

Join us for this conversation about how language, story and care for endemic species can reconnect us to place.In Deep T...
12/03/2026

Join us for this conversation about how language, story and care for endemic species can reconnect us to place.

In Deep Time Connections: Language, Lore and the Trapdoor Spider, Dr Cass Lynch will reflect on collaboration, habitat protection, and the role of language in caring for landscapes.
Cass will also share the story of rescuing 40 trapdoor spiders from construction in the Porongurup Range National Park.

About the event:
Thursday 26 March, 2025 UDLA’s Walyalup Studio
(Level 2 Atwell Building, 3 Cantonment Street, Fremantle, WA, 6160)
Doors open 5.30pm Conversation begins ~6pm.
Pizza, drinks and chats until 8.30pm
Free event. RSVP essential – link in bio!

Photo: Cass Lynch (left) and Leanda Mason inspect a rescued spider. Photo by Duncan Wright.

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Fremantle, WA
6160

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