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The purpose of this paper is to examine the professional context of the educator and architects who designed and conceived Woodleigh School in Baxter, Victoria, Australia (1974-1979) and to identify common design threads in a series of schools designed by Daryl Jackson and Evan Walker in the 1970s.

The research was derived from academic and professional publications, film footage, interviews, archival searches and site visits. Standard analytical methods in architectural research are employed, including formal, planning and morphological analysis, to read building designs for meaning and intent. Books, people and buildings were examined to piece together the design “biography” of Woodleigh School, the identification of which forms the basis of the paper's argument.

Themes of loose fit, indeterminate planning, coupled with concepts of classroom as house, and school as town, and engagement with a landscape environment are drawn together under principal Michael Norman's favoured phrase that adolescents might experience “a slice of life”, preparing them for broader engagement with a world and a community outside school. The themes reflect changing aspirations for teenage education in the 1970s, indicating a free and experimental approach to the design of the school environment.

The paper considers, for the first time, the interconnected role of educator and architect as key protagonists in envisioning connections between space and pedagogy in the 1970s alternative school.

IN this issue we publish an article by DR P. B. WALKER under the title ‘Plastic Pressure Cabins’, in which he examines the possibility of using reinforced plastics as the primary material for pressurized fuselages. This study was suggested by a leading article in our issue for February this year. We are very gratified that DR WALKER felt the suggestion was of sufficient interest to be looked into, and that he should have made such a thorough study of the question. We are not at all disconcerted by the conclusion that this particular application for reinforced plastics is less promising than we had thought it might be. We considered that there was a case to answer: DR WALKER agreed, and has provided the answer. In doing so he has been careful not to condemn reinforced plastics in general as an aircraft material, but onlly to say that the special problems of fuselage structural design are not of such a kind as to be easily solved by these materials.

At the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit, the Club of Rome in collaboration with a network of global contributors issued a statement calling for nations to declare a planetary emergency. The statement calls for urgent action to prevent a global crisis due to the impact of human activity on the stability of the Earth’s life-support systems. Implications of the planetary emergency pose intriguing challenges for how managers address paradoxical sustainability challenges across spatial and temporal scales. In this chapter, the authors have two aims. First, the authors show that the planetary emergency is inherently paradoxical. To do this, the authors build an embedded view of the planetary emergency and argue that it is paradoxical due to key dynamics that emerge across organizational, economic, social, and environmental systems over time. Second, the authors advance paradox theory by exploring the paradoxical nature of the planetary emergency and propose a three-sequence framework for collective action including: (1) building a view of the planetary emergency across spatial and temporal scales, (2) collectively making sense of the planetary emergency, and (3) levering a paradoxical view of the planetary emergency to ensure effective action.

To the Editor. Dear Sir, In your issue of September 10 was an article by Dr P. B. Walker under the above title. This article appears to have been induced by some suggestions put forward in an editorial in your February issue that reinforced plastics might well repay study for use in pressure cabin construction.

TOO late for a report to be included in this issue the Royal Aeronautical Society held a Section Lecture, or rather group of lectures, on Aircraft Design Philosophy. This was in fact primarily concerned with the fundamentals of structural design. A paper by MR R. H. SANDIFER examined the ways in which loads are applied to an aircraft. Safety factors were the subject of a paper by MR J. K. WILLIAMS, and MR H. GIDDINGS and DR P. B. WALKER dealt respectively with Fatigue, and Structural Strength Testing.

This work was undertaken to examine the possibility of predicting the creep deflexion of magnesium alloy struts from tensile creep data. Creep deflexion tests on magnesium alloy struts at room temperature, under four loads, and lasting 1,000 hours, have been made and interpreted by the use of tensile creep test data for the same magnesium alloy. For strut deflexions small compared with length, and such that plane sections of the strut remain plane, it appears that the following assumptions arc reasonable: (i) during bending and compression creep of the strut similar relations exist between the stress, time and creep strain, as under conditions of simple tensile or compressive creep; and (ii) the rate of creep in any fibre of the strut is a function only of the current stress and time and not of the path by which the current conditions arc reached. These assumptions appear to lead to an average error in computed values of deflexion of an order which for practical purposes is small. It seems reasonably possible that the above mentioned assumptions may be expected to hold for struts of heat resistant material at elevated temperatures such as are met with in practice, provided that the order of deflexion is analogous to that occurring in the current tests, and the creep characteristics of the material are of a generally similar nature.