Professor Rob Adams AM, Director Design & Urban Environment, City of Melbourne, presented on the topic of “Making Low Density Cities” at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum, 31 October. See footage of his presentation below.
Graham Crist, Director, Antarctica Group Architects and Program Director, Architecture & Design, RMIT University spoke about his design work, “Antarctica Live Projects” at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum, 31 October. Find footage of his presentation below.
Catherine Stutterheim, Design Lecturer, RMIT University & Landscape Architect from Stutterheim / Anderson Landscape Architecture presented on “The Un-Natural City” at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum, 31 October. The presentation can be viewed below.
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Eva Migdal, Creative Director, Consultant & Eco-Coach from Hatch - Sustainability Strategists, presented on the topic of “Sustainability Intelligence“, at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum, 31 October. Touching on aspects of Appreciate Inquiry, this presentation explored behaviour change for individuals and business. Find footage of her presentation below.
Stephen Mushin, Ecological systems designer at CERES and a Freelance Ecological Systems Designer, spoke about “The CERES Aquaponics research project and The Myhree Primary school kitchen classroom space snake” at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum, 31 October. This marvellous 3 minute section beautifully illustrated the power of visioning - especially with children - and then putting those visions into practice. View footage of his talk below.
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We were also very fortunate to have Dr Catherin Bull, Elisabeth Murdoch Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Melbourne, to speak on “Cities as functioning ecosystems - focusing on retrofits” at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum, 31 October. Footage of the presentation and copies of her powerpoint presentation can be seen below.
Powerpoint presentation, Dr Catherin Bull, University of Melbourne
Melanie Dodd, Lecturer & Architect (MUFAUS), Architecture & Design, RMIT University, presented from her work on “EN-Visioning: Bottom Up versus Top Down” at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum, 31 October. For more information, check out the footage of her presentation below.
Jon Ward, Sustainability Victoria, was the first presenter to speak as part of the three minute presentations at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum on the 31 October. His presentation titled, “Sustainability - The Big Picture” discussed the business visioning process that occurred at Sustainability Victoria - as illustrated by a beautiful, big, colourful map towards their future! Please find footage of the event below as well as a pdf version of this visioning map.
The Sustainable Cities Round Table / Future Melbourne Forum was recently held on the 31 October. The event, proudly supported by the City of Melbourne as one of the Future Melbourne Forums brought together a wealth of urban sustainability knowledge by local presenters; Melanie Dodd, Graham Crist, Eva Migdal, Prof Catherin Bull, Steve Mushin, Jon Ward, Catherine Stutterheim and Rob Adams. We were also graced by the presence of international speaker, Francois Jegou, Director of the Brussels-based design research company, Solutioning. The overall theme - “Visioning Sustainable Cities” - provided a rich context for peoples’ visions in a variety of fields and backgrounds.
Footage of all these presentations are now uploaded on SustainableMelbourne.com (click on the “Sustainable Cities Round Table” tag at the top of the screen). Thank you to all the presenters for their contributions and to all the people who participated!
Although this is the last Sustainable Cities Round Table for this year, there are many more planned for 2008. If you would like to be placed on the Sustainable Melbourne mailing list for reminders of these upcoming dates, or if you would like to put your name on our invitation list, please contact Ferne Edwards at fedwards @unimelb.edu.au.
Please find below footage of the opening introduction to the latest Sustainable Cities Round Table by Prof. Chris Ryan and Ferne Edwards, Victorian Eco-Innovation Introduction Lab, ACSIS, University of Melbourne.
Conference Asia Pacific EcoHealth Conference, 30 November - 3 December, Melbourne VIC
The conference explores the inter-relationship between human health and the health of ecosystems. Key note speakers include: Professor Tony McMichael; Associate Professor Pierre Horwitz; Emeritus Professor Valerie Brown; Associate Professor Jonathan Patz. Notable events include: Getting it together in a changing world - presented by Professor Valerie A Brown, AO an interactive workshop on integrative thinking and action for those working in areas of social change, environmental futures, action research, community development, professional extension, and strategic planning. The launch of Valerie A. Brown’s AO book Leonardo’s vision. A guide to collective thinking and action, by the Hon. Barry O Jones Sponsors: Vic Health, Parks Victoria, La Trobe University, Deakin University.
For more information visit: http://www.deakin.edu.au/events/ecohealth2007/
