Festival Program
Overseas Passenger Terminal, Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Thursday 12 October 2017
Friday 13 October 2017
9:00am - 5:30pm |
2017 International Landscape Architecture Conference > day 1* |
Overseas Passenger Terminal, Circular Quay |
9:00 - 9:20am |
Welcome (Creative Directorate)
Opening Address |
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9:20 - 9:40am |
Welcome to Country |
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9:40 - 10:10am |
Opening address:
The environmental consequences of Sydney’s expansion across the Cumberland Plain and beyond pose formidable challenges in terms of air quality, water quality, biodiversity and the loss of productive farmland.
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Prof James Weirick, UNSW Built Environment |
10:10 - 10:15am |
Introduction to 3rd City Ecosystems:
Growth and development can come at a great cost. Historically the city has expanded with a footprint of degradation far larger than its own physical dimensions, a reality that we ignore at our peril. In the not too distant future, recalibrating our relationship with the ecosystems we occupy will become an essential precondition of urban development.
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10:15 - 11:00am |
Keynote:
The idea of the metropolitan Sydney being comprised of ‘three cities’ in the future is a way of encapsulating and harnessing the potential of the Western Sydney Airport to improve equitable access to employment, education and cultural.
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Rod Simpson, Greater Sydney Commission
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11:00 - 11:20am |
Morning break |
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11:20 - 12:05pm |
Keynote: Exploring the potential of green and blue infrastructure to provide urban connectivity and resilience. Read more.
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Prof Nina Marie Lister, Plandform (Canada)
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12:05 - 12:20pm |
Facilitated Q+A with keynote speakers |
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12:20 - 1:20pm |
Lunch |
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1:20 - 2:20pm |
Short presentations: 3rd City Ecosystems. Read more.
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Dr Libby Gallagher, Gallagher Studios
Prof Rob Roggema, UTS Sydney
Dr Amy Hahs, Urban Ecology in Action |
2:20 - 2:25pm |
Introduction to 3rd City Infrastructures:
Infrastructure will be the basis for the future city, and will need nothing short of entire reinvention as existing infrastructure reaches capacity or the end of its useful life. In this session, innovative rethinks and emergent possibilities are explored and enabled.
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2:25 - 3:25pm
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Short presentations:3rd City Infrastructures. Read more.
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Prof Rob Freestone, UNSW Built Environment
Melissa Cate Christ, transverse studio
Dr Julian Bolleter, Australian Urban Design Research Centre |
3:25 - 3:45pm |
Afternoon break |
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3:45 - 4:30pm |
Keynote: Challenging us to examine how we might reinvent our infrastructure. Read more.
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Prof Hillary Brown, City University of New York (USA)
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4:30 - 5:15pm |
Keynote:Challenging us to be realistic about the impacts of development, and ask deep questions about the relationship cities have with their resource rich environments as they expand and evolve. Read more.
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Assoc Prof Pierre Belanger, Harvard University (USA/Canada)
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5:15 - 5:30pm |
Facilitated Q&A with keynote speakers |
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5:30 - 7:30pm |
Festival Party |
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Saturday 14 October 2017
9:00am - 5:30pm |
2017 International Landscape Architecture Conference > day 2* |
Overseas Passenger Terminal, Circular Quay |
9:00 - 9:10am |
Welcome (Creative Directorate) |
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9:10 - 9:15am |
Introduction to 3rd City Communities:
The vast challenges of ecological and infrastructural calibration of the future city will require new ways to engage, conceptualise and deliver urban development.
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9:15 -10:00am |
Keynote: The human dimensions of future city building, unearthing the real human challenges of urbanisation and the potential fallout of urban growth. Read more.
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Prof Jeff Hou, University of Washington (USA) |
10:00 - 10:45am |
Keynote:
It was a stretch in our original thinking, but our public places and spaces eventually transitioned into highly productive networks of service-oriented, citizen-centric, and digitally transformed connective tissue
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Adam Beck, Smart Cities Council Australia and New Zealand
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10:45 - 11:00am |
Facilitated Q&A with keynote Speakers |
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11:00 - 11:20am |
Morning break |
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11:20 - 12:20pm |
Short presentations: 3rd City Communities. Read more.
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Fiona Robbé, Architects of Arcadia
Anne-Marie Pisani, Parks Victoria
Prof Margaret Somerville, University of Western Sydney
Aunty Jacinta Tobin, Darug Elder
Leanne Tobin, Darug Aboriginal artist and teacher
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12:20 - 12:50pm |
Student Roundtable Provocation |
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12:50 - 1:55pm |
Lunch |
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1:55 - 2:00pm |
Introduction to 3rd City Practice:
The new realities of the 3rd City are being and will continue to be tested within the frame of the professional project, with its specific constraints and opportunities.
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2:00 - 3:00pm |
Short presentations: 3rd City Practice. Read more.
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Jon Hazelwood, HASSELL
Tim O'Loan, AECOM
Amalie Wright, Landscapology
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3:00 - 3:45pm
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Keynote: Working with communities to develop more resilient urban futures. Read more.
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Jan van der Grift, Bureau Plano (Netherlands) |
3:45 - 4:05pm |
Afternoon break |
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4:05 - 4:50pm |
Keynote: Demonstrating the power of landscape architecture to create an alternative, inclusive and resilient future. Read more.
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Mia Lehrer, Mia Lehrer + Associates (USA)
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4:50 - 5:10pm |
Facilitated Q&A with keynote speakers |
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5:10 - 5:30pm |
Closing address |
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5:30 - 8:00pm |
Conference Closing Drinks |
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*Conference program subject to change.
Sunday 15 October 2017
9:00am - 5:30pm |
Festival fringe events program > Registrations open. Read more. |
Sydney, NSW |