2016 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA 27–30 OCTOBER 2016 ******************** **FESTIVAL PROGRAM** ******************** 4 DAYS + 7 CURATORS 7 BIG THEMES 35 SPEAKERS 50 YEARS 1 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 PRINCIPAL CORPORATE PARTNER
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Shaun Gladwell. Image still from Approach to Mundi Mundi: Silverton Road/Mundi Mundi, 2007. c-type print, 120 x 120 cm, Edition of 5, © Shaun Gladwell. Courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery. 2 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Table of Contents p04 Welcome p08 Calendar p18 Events p50 Conference Speakers p118 Acknowledgements
3 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Welcome
Prof Richard Weller 2016 International Festival Creative Director
At the same time that the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016, the International Commission on Stratigraphy is expected to formally announce the dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch: a new geological period defined by the fact that the earth’s systems are now fundamentally determined by human activity. The philosophical and practical consequences couldn’t be greater: in short, nature is no longer that ever- providing thing ‘out there’, it is, for better or worse, some- thing we are creating. The landscape of the Anthropocene is a cultural landscape and therefore a question of design. The underlying proposition of this conference is that the major dynamics of the Anthropocene—global urbanisation and climate change—are, at root, landscape architectural in nature. They are interrelated issues to which landscape architects can in theory, and increasing- ly in practice, uniquely apply both scientific knowledge and artistic imagination. Organised around the sub-sections of New Views, New Cities, New Natures, New Stories, New Signs, New Techniques, and New Practices the conference asks how design intelligence can be more effectively applied to the major challenges of the times. Bringing together land- scape architects, planners, architects and artists the ‘Not in My Backyard’ festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of landscape architecture in Australia by acknowledging what has been achieved and, more importantly, by asking what can be achieved. The festival’s overarching proposi- tion and the bold claim around which our conversations will revolve is that this is landscape architecture’s century. 4 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Welcome
Daniel Bennett AILA National President, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
I must admit, I have quite a large backyard, which I keep semi-maintained with the help of my old trust Victa “Lawnkeeper’, aka the Green Machine, and lots of hard labour. The latter part of the 20th century was a time of great change, where the quarter acre block was well entrenched in the Great Australian Dream, as was owning a big house, a car, holidays at the beach. We had a waves of new Australians joining us, our nation was booming, and we had new found confidence in ourselves. Backyards were until only recently fairly functional things. Its where kids played and where we experimented with fruit trees and passionfruit vines. The consumer ‘must have’ for the backyard in the 1960’s, as AILA was being established, was the rotary clothes line (usually located in the dead centre of the lawn), the Adelaide invention that became the truly iconic Hills Hoist. It took centre stage for decades. Ours was anything but a clothes dryer, invariably a swing set, rocket launcher, monkey bars, an antenna, and a tent… it served countless misadventures and ‘explanations’ to my parents how we broke the wires… again. In 2016 though, the Hills Hoist and my Green Machine days appear numbered. We have this national awkwardness underway, where our homes are focused on ‘lifestyle’ – our simple lives of old have become the complex lives of new. We now have more power outlets in our backyards and WIFI than inside, as well as a plethora of media programs dedicated to our new outdoor religion. 5 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 We have plants with targeted common names such as Shademaster and Screenmaster to give our neighbours a wide berth. With increasing pressures on watering gardens, we take pride in replacing water hungry plants from distant continents with climate sensitive plants that we tend and grow with modest resources. Instead of fruit trees we plant ornamental fruit trees (sans fruit). Rather than making jams, preserves and fruit cakes we have lifestyle television to tell us where to buy the right peaches or raspberries to make that perfect dessert. Perhaps we’ve forgotten why we have backyards, or perhaps we have adapted, or we know where we are going. I’m not sure. But the Hills Hoist is being replaced by hidden retractable clothes lines and energy guzzling clothes dryers. We are in the midst of rethinking our cities and we’re having a great time working our what we need vs what we want. I feel a little for my young kids, as they will never experience the danger I felt as I stood atop our Hills Hoist, whilst my older brother tried to spin me off it… it makes me wonder where, if not the family backyard, my kids will play, explore, test their limits and develop the kind of suburban ingenuity that created the Hills Hoist. I guess they’ll be able to find the outdoor wine fridge for their cool bevies though. The program and content of the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture: Not In My Backyard in Canberra is wide, thought-provoking and downright exciting. I look forward to standing around an esky having a cool one with you.
6 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Welcome
Shahana McKenzie Chief Executive Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
Welcome to the International Festival of Landscape Architecture. This year’s Festival is particularly special as the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Amongst many activities to celebrate this impressive milestone, I encourage Festival delegates to visit the Parks Changing Australia Exhibition at the National Museum of Australia. For those flying into Canberra with Virgin Australia, keep an eye out for the Parks Changing Australian Cities exhibitions in the Virgin Lounges as well as the inflight documentary about the making of the profession in Australia, by film maker Margaret McHugh with creative guidance from Dr Helen Armstrong AM FAILA. Thank you to our Festival Partners, particularly our Principal Corporate Partner, Lappset, for their ongoing support of the Festival. Thanks to our Festival Partners’ support, over the past three years the Festival has grown to a sell-out event with over 600 delegates in attendance – Australia’s largest gathering of landscape architects. I urge you to explore the nation’s capital and get involved in one of the many Festival fringe events which showcase the city’s incredible public spaces. A warm welcome to my backyard – Canberra – a progressive city which I am proud to call home.
7 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Calendar
8 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD 9 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Calendar Thursday 27 October 2016 p20 The Journey 2016 Interactive Map
Time: all day Location: Canberra and surrounds p21 #backyardexperiment
(Starting Saturday 22 October) Location: Garema Place, Time: all day Canberra City p22 Contour 556
(Starting Friday 21 October) Location: Lake Burley Griffin, Time: all day Central Basin to Kingston Arts Precinct p23 Parks Changing Australia Exhibition
(Starting Wednesday 26 Location: Circa Corridor, October) National Museum of Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton p24 Sydney’s Backyard – The Blue Mountains
(Monday 24 – Wednesday 26 Location: starts in Sydney, October 2016) delivers to Canberra Time: all day travelling via the Blue Mountains p25 International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) 2016 Asia-Pacific Meeting
Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm Location: University of Canberra, University Drive, Bruce p26 Lake Cruise & Government House Gardens
Time: 9:00–11:30am Location: meet at Southern Cross Yacht Club, Mariner Place, Yarralumla p27 Student Roundtable
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm Location: Building 7, Level C, Room 48, University of Canberra p28 Public Lecture
Time: 12:30–2:00pm Location: Lecture Theatre 2B07, University of Canberra 10 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD p29 Australian National Botanic Gardens Tour
Time: 2:00–3:00pm Location: Australian National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, Acton p30 Threshold Learning Outcomes (TLO) Workshop
Time: 2:00–5:00pm Location: Tutorial Room 5C57, University of Canberra p31 Thirsty Thursday at the Festival
Time: 4:30–6:00pm Location: Hippo & Co. Garema Place, Canberra City p32 National Landscape Architecture Awards
Time: 6:30–10:30pm Location: National Arboretum Canberra, Forest Drive, off Tuggeranong Parkway, Weston Creek
11 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Calendar Friday 28 October 2016 p20 The Journey 2016 Interactive Map
Time: all day Location: Canberra and surrounds p21 #backyardexperiment
Time: all day Location: Garema Place, Canberra City p22 Contour 556
Time: all day Location: Lake Burley Griffin, Central Basin to Kingston Arts Precinct p23 Parks Changing Australia Exhibition
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm Location: Circa Corridor, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton à International Landscape Architecture Conference: Not in My Backyard, day 1
Time: 9:00am – 6:00pm Location: Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes
9:00–9:15am Welcome
9:15–9:45am ‘OMG there’s an Anthropocene in my Backyard’. Prof Richard Weller
9:45–10:15am New Epoch?. Prof. Clive Hamilton AM
10:15–11:00am Q&A Prof. Clive Hamilton AM & 7 Curators
11:00–11:30am Break
11:30am – 1:00pm Session: New Natures?
The state of the world’s Curator: Josh Zeunert ecosystems and what Panellists: Prof Richard landscape architects can and Hobbs, Ellen Neises, Mark should do about it. Stafford Smith, Simon Kilbane 12 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD 1:00–2:00pm Lunch Break + AILA Annual General Meeting
2:00–3:30pm Session: New Cities?
The wicked problems facing Curator: Dr Julian Bolleter Australian cities and the role Panellists: Craig Allchin, of landscape architecture in Adrian McGregor, Dorte solving them. Ekelund
3:30–4:00pm Afternoon Break
4:00–4:20pm Documentary Screening
Produced by the Landscape Directed by Michael Rubin Architecture Foundation Joanna Karaman Sahar (LAF). Coston Hardy
4:20–6:00pm Session: New Views?
Questioning the canon Curator: Dr Helen Armstrong of Australian landscape AM architecture and asking where Panellists: Dr Catherin Bull, to from here? Craig Burton, Steve Calhoun, Perry Lethlean, Jacinta McCann, Prof Elizabeth Mossop
6:00pm Close p36 Austral Bricks & Masonry Floating Bar
Time: 6:10pm Location: Queens Terrace Jetty, National Gallery of Australia p37 Festival Party
Time: 6:30–10:30pm Location: Garden of Australian Dreams, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton p38 Not In My Backyard Outdoor Film Screening
Time: 8:00–10:30pm Location: Garden of Australian Dreams, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton p39 Park Light
Time: 8:00–10:30pm Location: Garden of Australian Dreams, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton
13 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Calendar Saturday 29 October 2016 p20 The Journey 2016 Interactive Map
Time: all day Location: Canberra and surrounds p40 Go bush_Get fit_Dive in!
Time: 7:30–8:45am Location: Sculpture Garden Restaurant, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes p21 #backyardexperiment
Time: all day Location: Garema Place, Canberra City p22 Contour 556
Time: all day Location: Lake Burley Griffin, Central Basin to Kingston Arts Precinct p23 Parks Changing Australia Exhibition
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm Location: Circa Corridor, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton à International Landscape Architecture Conference: Not in My Backyard, day 2
Time: 9:00am – 6:00pm Location: Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes
9.00–9.10am Welcome
9:10–10:15am Session: New Stories?
Evolving senses of place Curator: Prof Paul Carter in post-colonial Australia Panellists: Prof Jeff Malpas, and the cross over between Prof Margaret Sommerville, landscape, art and identity. Jock Gilbert
10:15–11:00am Morning break
Connection to Country Committee: Reconciliation Action Plan
14 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD 11.00am – 12:30pm Session: New Signs?
This session explores ideas Curator: Mark Raggatt of space, time and symbolism Panellists: Daniel Crooks, in the work of contemporary Dr Naomi Stead, Liam Young, artists and architects. Andrew Lilleyman
12:30–1.30pm Lunch break
1:30–3:00pm Session: New Techniques?
Digital futures: the power Curator: Dr Jillian Walliss and potential of the Panellists: Prof Bradley computational in the age of Cantrell, Kirsten Bauer, the Anthropocene. Wolfgang Kessling
3.00–3.30pm Afternoon break
3.30–4.30pm Session: New Practices?
New ways of getting work Curator: Prof Sue Anne Ware and new ways of working. Panellists: Dr Jason Ho, The landscape architect as Jessica Christiansen-Franks, activist and how to make Nicky McNamara really meaningful community engagement.
4.30–5:30pm Gen Z: Student provocation/discussion Panellists: Prof Elizabeth Mossop, Prof Helen Lochhead, Prof SueAnne Ware, Prof Richard Weller
5:30–6:00pm Close p41 Kidscape
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm Location: Haig Park, Lonsdale Street, Braddon p42 AILA Fellows’ Lunch
Time: 12:30–1:30pm Location: Sculpture Garden Restaurant, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes p43 Conference Closing Drinks
Time: 6:30–8:30pm Location: Old Parliament House courtyard, 18 King George Terrace, Parkes p44 Constitution Avenue Redevelopment by Night
Time: 8:15–9:30pm Location: Coach collection from Conference Closing Drinks at Old Parliament House 15 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Calendar Sunday 30 October 2016 p20 The Journey 2016 Interactive Map
Time: all day Location: Canberra and surrounds p21 #backyardexperiment
Time: all day Location: Garema Place, Canberra City p22 Contour 556
Time: all day Location: Lake Burley Griffin, Central Basin to Kingston Arts Precinct p23 Parks Changing Australia Exhibition
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm Location: Circa Corridor, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton p45 Canberra’s Political Gardens Unlocked
Time: 9:00am – 12:30pm Location: Parliament House, Government House and The Lodge p46 National Arboretum Tour
Time: 9:30am – 12:00pm Location: National Arboretum, Forest Drive, off Tuggeranong Parkway, Weston Creek p47 Centenary Trail Bushwalk
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm Location: Centenary Trail, Hall p48 Segway Adventure in the Parliamentary Zone
Time: 10:00–11:30am Location: Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes p49 In My Shoes: Parkourscape
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm Location: meet at Glebe Park Civic (opposite 332 Bunda St)
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18 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD 19 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 The Journey 2016 Interactive Map
DATE: every day TIME: all day LOCATION: Canberra and surrounds COST: free TO REGISTER: pre-registration is not required for this event Download interactive map from thejourney.aila.org.au
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Experience The Journey through Canberra’s landscapes, and how elements of the public realm represent the cultural mores of the city. The Journey is an interactive map offering various self-guided tours, along the themes of Ecology, Art & Sport, Political & Civic Landscapes, and emerging Landscape expressions. Explore how our attitudes to conservation and climate change, streets for people, food production, play and commemoration, historic parks and contemporary interventions are evident in built form.
20 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD #backyardexperiment
DATE: Saturday 22 – Sunday 30 October 2016 TIME: all day LOCATION: Garema Place, Canberra City COST: free TO REGISTER: pre-registration is not required for this event
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#backyardexperiment is an observational study of public life. Cameras will be set up to watch and understand how people use a space in three different scenarios; existing, with the addition of moveable chairs and vibrant elements, and with pop-up activations including an outdoor cinema, library and snack cart. One of the main outcomes for this project will be answering the questions surrounding how the public react and interact to moveable furniture. Can we live in a city that provides more flexibility in the way we want to interact with it? The observations from this experiment will provide knowledge into the public life of Canberra and in particular Garema Place. It will trigger thinking into how the space is used now and reflect on how the installation may change the public environment for the benefit of Canberrans. And therefore how can we change the public domain to bring out the best in our city and its people. Time lapse cameras will observe the park over a ten- day period. At the end of the installation a video will be put together presenting the conclusions of the experiment. 21 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Contour 556
DATE: Friday 21 October – Sunday 13 November 2016 TIME: all day LOCATION: Lake Burley Griffin, Central Basin to Kingston Arts Precinct COST: free TO REGISTER: visit contour556.com.au
‘Interventions in the Landscape’, a three week public art festival. Contour 556 is a large scale public realm intervention, bringing together local, national and international artists delivering installed works, performance, walks, dance and digital presentations on the ‘canvas’ of the Canberra landscape. It takes place around the major cultural institutions, the National Library of Australia, the National Gallery of Australia, the High Court of Australia and the Kingston Arts Precinct. Contour 556 will interrogate the relationships between artworks and space; artists and the public; and the ways in which art, performance and play can influence how the public perceive and remember space.
22 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Parks Changing Australia Exhibition
DATE: Wednesday 26 October 2016 – March 2017 TIME: 9:00am – 5:00pm COST: free LOCATION: Circa Corridor, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton TO REGISTER: pre-registration is not required for this event
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The Parks Changing Australia exhibition focuses on contemporary landscape architecture projects that are changing Australia. The projects exhibited have created a positive impact on society, measured by the social, environmental, health and economic change brought about by the creation of the park/public space. The exhibition aims to connect to the general public by providing an insight into Landscape Architecture and showcase the importance of design and urban planning to Australian cities and communities.
23 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Sydney’s Backyard – The Blue Mountains
DATE: Monday 24 – Wednesday 26 October 2016 COST: $425 including transport, accommodation, breakfast, snacks, and lunch one day LOCATION: starts in Sydney, delivers to Canberra travelling via the Blue Mountains TO REGISTER: book now FOR MORE INFORMATION: contact Elizabeth Dudley-Bestow on [email protected]
Get met in Sydney, and delivered to your Canberra accommodation, via the Blue Mountains; the ancient, deeply dissected sandstone plateau in Sydney’s backyard. The Blue Mountains; 1 million hectares of world heritage listed National Park, ancestral home to the Gundungurra and Dharug peoples, a tourist attraction of international significance with stunning views and a string of small towns and villages in bushland settings. Come and be guided around some highlights for two days by two local landscape architects, Elizabeth Dudley- Bestow and Sue Bell to sample the mountains’ diversity and subtlety.
24 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) 2016 Asia-Pacific Meeting
DATE: Thursday 27 October 2016 TIME: 8:30am – 4:00pm LOCATION: University of Canberra, University Drive, Bruce COST: free, including refreshments and lunch TO REGISTER: by invitation only
The IFLA Asia-Pacific Meeting, is an annual meeting which will be held at the beginning of the Festival, open to IFLA representatives and invitees only. AILA won the rights to host the 2016 IFLA Asia- Pacific Regional Conference as a result of a competitive bid process. The Congress will focus on the past and present Asia-Pacific Landscape learning’s while realising the exciting central global role this region has to play, setting benchmarks to positively influence our future.
25 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Lake Cruise & Government House Gardens
DATE: Thursday 27 October 2016 TIME: 9:00–11:30am LOCATION: meet at Southern Cross Yacht Club, Mariner Place, Yarralumla COST: $28 TO REGISTER: book now
There is no better way to experience Canberra than by gliding across Lake Burley Griffin in a boat! Take in the stunning views of Canberra from the water on your way to Government House Jetty for a delightful guided walk through the Government House gardens.
26 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Student Roundtable
DATE: Thursday 27 October 2016 TIME: 10:00am – 4:00pm LOCATION: Building 7, Level C, Room 48, University of Canberra (see map) COST: free, including refreshments and lunch TO REGISTER: by invitation only
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This is a national and international student representative delegation. Each of the landscape architecture programs has been invited to support 3 students to attend this full day meeting at the University of Canberra. These students will be engaged in a day of roundtable discussions. The agenda for the roundtable will be developed by the students themselves. This Roundtable provides a golden opportunity to galvanise and energise the national student body, and enable some lucky Representatives to participate in a think tank with their national and international peers, and draft an agenda for future actions.
27 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Public Lecture
DATE: Thursday 27 October 2016 TIME: 12:30 – 2:00pm COST: free LOCATION: Lecture Theatre 2B07, University of Canberra (see map) TO REGISTER: pre-registration is not required for this event
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Professor Richard Weller and Professor Ellen Neises from University of Pennsylvania will be speaking about the application of the concepts of resilience in urban design from a North American perspective with project examples and some reflections on the way built environment disciplines could collectively contribute to developing an urban resilience discourse. Ellen Neises teaches landscape design at the graduate school of design at the University of Pennsylvania. Ellen’s research interests include climate adaptation for coastal cities, sustainability of high-yield production agriculture, regional planning strategies for industry and agriculture, and community-based planning and design. Prior to 2011, Ellen was an associate partner at James Corner Field Operations studio. Richard Weller is the Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. His research projects have involved scenario planning for cities, mega regions and nations and his current work concerns the application of United Nations biodiversity targets. 28 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Australian National Botanic Gardens Tour
DATE: Thursday 27 October 2016 TIME: 2:00 – 3:00pm COST: $25 LOCATION: Australian National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, Acton TO REGISTER: book now
Nestled on the foot of Black Mountain lies the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Home of the world’s most comprehensive collection of Australian native plants. With over 6,300 species set within 35 hectares of natural bush and landscaped gardens, the Gardens is the only place in the world where you’ll will see this diversity of Australian native plants in one location. In a one-hour specially tailored tour, you will be guided through the diverse landscapes of the Gardens – from the Eastern Rainforests of Australia to the Arid Red Centre – and be given an insight into how landscape design and use of materials and infrastructure have been used to reflect the diversity and unity within Australian landscapes and Australian vegetation. The ANBG cafe, Floresco in the Gardens, offers a beautiful dining experience featuring fresh produce and Australian bush foods. After the tour enjoy afternoon tea in the gardens.
29 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Threshold Learning Outcomes (TLO) Workshop
DATE: Thursday 27 October 2016 TIME: 2:00 – 5:00pm COST: free LOCATION: Tutorial Room 5C57, University of Canberra (see map) TO REGISTER: book now
Landscape architects and conference delegates are invited to contribute their perspectives about what Landscape Architecture students need to know to become successful graduates. TLOs represent what a graduate from an AILA- accredited university programme can be expected to know, expected to do and expected to be when they leave university and enter the global profession of landscape architects. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), are undertaking a Delphi study comprising of three cycles of online questionnaires to gain consensus on TLOs. At the workshop, researchers will present the summarised responses and rankings from the survey results and encourage attendees to discuss any proposed TLOs that remain outside the consensus. Come and participate in this project and help shape the future of learning and teaching outcomes in Landscape Architecture. 30 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Thursday Thirsty at the Festival
DATE: Thursday 27 October 2016 TIME: 4:30 – 6:00pm LOCATION: Hippo & Co. Garema Place, Canberra City COST: free, including refreshments TO REGISTER: book now
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Calling all future leaders, rising stars, the next gen: meet + greet fellow Students and Graduates over a beverage on Hippo & Co.’s balcony overlooking the bustling Garema Place. A fantastic way to kick off the Festival activities and an opportunity to meet FRESHies from around the country. Hosted by AILA FRESH (Student and Graduates network).
31 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 National Landscape Architecture Awards
DATE: Thursday 27 October 2016 TIME: 6:30 – 10:30pm COST: $130, including beverages and canapes LOCATION: National Arboretum Canberra, Forest Drive, off Tuggeranong Parkway, Weston Creek TO REGISTER: book now
Ten years in the making, the National Arboretum Canberra, by Taylor Cullity Lethlean with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, is on the bucket list for every Australian landscape architect. As the sun sets across the nation’s capital, enjoy beverages and canapes which showcase local produce from the Canberra region. The 2016 AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards are set to be a truly unforgettable experience. Attracting over 300 entries in 2016, the AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards advance the profession of landscape architecture by fostering awareness and recognition of the work of AILA Registered Landscape Architects.
32 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD International Landscape Architecture Conference: Not in My Backyard
DATES: Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October 2016 TIME: 9:00am – 6:00pm COST: from $249, including refreshments and lunch LOCATION: Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes TO REGISTER: book now
IMAGE: Shaun Gladwell, image still from Approach to Mundi Mundi: Silverton Road/Mundi Mundi, 2007. c-type print, 120 x 120 cm, Edition of 5, © Shaun Gladwell. Courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery. Adventures into the profoundly frightening, deeply uncertain and yet somehow incredibly optimistic landscapes of the 21st century. At the same time that the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016, the International Commission on Stratigraphy is expected to formally announce the dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch: a new geological period defined by the fact that the earth’s systems are now fundamentally determined by human activity. The philosophical and practical consequences couldn’t be greater: in short, nature is no longer that ever-providing thing ‘out there’, it is, for better or worse, something we are creating. The landscape of the Anthropocene is a cultural landscape and therefore a question of design. 33 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 The underlying proposition of this Conference is that the major dynamics of the Anthropocene— global urbanisation and climate change—are, at root, landscape architectural in nature. They are interrelated issues to which landscape architects can in theory, and increasingly in practice, uniquely apply both scientific knowledge and artistic imagination. Organised around the sub-sections of New Views, New Cities, New Natures, New Stories, New Signs, New Techniques, and New Practices the Conference asks how design intelligence can be more effectively applied to the major challenges of the times. Bringing together landscape architects, planners, architects and artists the ‘Not in My Backyard’ Festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of landscape architecture in Australia by acknowledging what has been achieved and, more importantly, by asking what can be achieved. The Festival’s overarching proposition and the bold claim around which our conversations will revolve is that this is landscape architecture’s century.
34 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Reconciliation Action Plan and Connection to Country Strategy
DATE: Saturday 29 October 2016 TIME: 10:15–11:00am LOCATION: Connection to Country committee members will be at the Flower Chairs, Australian Gardens, National Gallery of Australia CONTACT: [email protected] for more information or to get involved
Through the work of the Connection to Country Committee, the AILA Victorian Chapter has prepared a Draft Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and Connection to Country Position Statement with the ambition that both documents will be adopted by AILA nationally. The RAP and Position Statement will be taken through the established member consultation processes. AILA members are encouraged to contribute to these significant documents, and indeed to lead our profession and actively advance the relationship of Landscape Architects with our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities. The aim is to increase our knowledge and understanding of Australian Indigenous Cultures and embed this knowledge into the teaching and practice of Landscape Architecture. The committee’s work to date follows a successful Symposium held in Melbourne in early 2016 and a groundswell of energy and support from within AILA’s membership, as well as more broadly from the built environment community.
35 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Austral Bricks & Masonry Floating Bar
DATE: Friday 28 October 2016 TIME: 6:10pm COST: free, including welcome beverage LOCATION: Queens Terrace Jetty, National Gallery of Australia TO REGISTER: book now
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All aboard the Austral Bricks & Masonry Floating Bar! Arrive in style to the Festival Party, aboard the MV Southern Cross. The masterful centrepiece of Canberra, the ornamental Lake Burley Griffin is at the centre of Walter Burley Griffin’s Canberra plan.
Schedule: — 6:10pm Austral Bricks & Masonry Floating Bar departs Queens Terrace Jetty, National Gallery of Australia — 6:30pm Arrive Festival Party, National Museum of Australia
36 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Festival Party
DATE: Friday 28 October 2016 TIME: 6:30 – 10:30pm COST: $65, including beverages and canapes LOCATION: Garden of Australian Dreams, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton TO REGISTER: book now
The official Festival Party will celebrate the four- day program which includes a Conference, National Landscape Architecture Awards and a host of public and industry tours, exhibitions, city activations, screenings and talks. The party will be held in the iconic Garden of Australian Dreams at the National Museum of Australia. The evening will feature drinks, cocktail food and an outdoor film screening of “Kim Kardashian and the Dark Side of the Screen” by Liam Young. Following on from this will be screening of the shortlisted finalists from the short film competition AnthropoScene. The winning film will be determined on the evening by the audience.
37 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Not In My Backyard Outdoor Film Screening
DATE: Friday 28 October 2016 TIME: 8:00–10:30pm LOCATION: Garden of Australian Dreams, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Cres, Acton COST: free, beverages and movie snacks available for purchase TO REGISTER: book now
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As the sun goes down over Acton Peninsula, kick back and enjoy an evening of short films from across the globe. First up, join speculative architect Liam Young and a fictional Kim Kardashian as they go on a storytelling walking tour through the flickering screen and beyond the fog of the cloud, in “Kim Kardashian and the Dark Side of the Screen”. The pair explore City Everywhere, a fictional city of the near future, extrapolated from the fears and wonders of an increasingly complex present. With spoken word and a rapid fire assault of film, animation and live sound mixing, Liam and Kim journey to a place found somewhere between the real and the imagined, stitched together from fragments of distant landscapes, extreme mega cities and designed urban fictions. Next up will be a screening of the finalist short films from the global short film competition, AnthropoScene. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects in partnership with the National Museum of Australia and LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, invited submissions short films on the general subject of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. The ultimate winner of the $10K prize money will be determined via audience participation at the screening. 38 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Park Light
DATE: Friday 28 October 2016 TIME: 8:00–10:30pm LOCATION: Garden of Australian Dreams, National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton COST: free
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Park Light is an annual event run by the Lighting Society in the ACT for the local design community. Park Light is a ‘guerrilla lighting’ style event where groups of designers produce temporary creative lighting installations at an interesting outdoor site. Participants often include lighting designers, electrical engineers, lighting sales reps, architects, interior designers, landscape architects and students, making it a valuable cross-discipline creative exercise. Every Park Light event surprises with the high quality and creativity of the installations, and highlights the powerful impact that creative lighting design can have on the public realm. The Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia and New Zealand is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of illumination and the dissemination of knowledge to all interested parties. The Society’s members come from a wide field, including engineers, lighting designers, architects, educators, students, contractors, and manufacturers. 39 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Go bush_Get fit_Dive in!
DATE: Saturday 29 October 2016 TIME: 7:30 – 8:45am LOCATION: Sculpture Garden Restaurant, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes COST: free, breakfast included TO REGISTER: book now
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Kick off the second day of the International Conference with 3 case studies from landscape architects who have designed and implemented innovative and inspiring outdoor: • Designing a nature play space for all, Artists Park, Box Hill South VIC, Whitehorse City Council and Land Design Partnership • Designing and delivering a large, contemporary and challenging outdoor exercise space for young and working age adults. • Designing a large themed play space, Walter Gors Park, Dee Why NSW, Northern Beaches Council & Tract Consultants.
Lappset Group is a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of children’s playground equipment and outdoor exercise solutions for people of all ages. Established in 1970, the family-owned company sells its products to over 50 countries. Lappset offers outdoor activity solutions for four distinct user groups: children, youth, adults and seniors.
40 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Kidscape
DATE: Saturday 29 October 2016 TIME: 10:00am – 4:00pm COST: free, beverages and snacks available for purchase LOCATION: Haig Park, Lonsdale Street, Braddon TO REGISTER: book now
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Kidscape will be a major activation undertaken by AILA as part of the 2016 Festival. AILA is committed to creating more sustainable and greener cities for the future and the future of our cities is our children. This public installation will provide the kids of Canberra with activities that will inspire and excite them, generate imagination and encourage them to ask questions that start conversations focused on city design, living in an urban environment and how they see the future of their city. Through workshops and temporary installations, Kidscape will be an event full of diverse, fun, creative play including; parkour workshops, mountain bike pump trails, a greenwall installation, stories in the trees, urban farming workshops, nature play and free play with the use of natural, raw materials, hay bales, shipping ropes, cardboard encouraging kids to build their own spaces, get dirty and use their imaginations!
41 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 AILA Fellows’ Lunch
DATE: Saturday 29 October 2016 TIME: 12:30 – 1:30pm LOCATION: Sculpture Garden Restaurant, National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes COST: free, including beverages and plated lunch TO REGISTER: invitation only
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Together with Festival Partners, Street Furniture Australia and WE-EF LIGHTING, the AILA Fellows Lunch will provide an exceptional opportunity for AILA Fellows to connect at the magnificent setting of the National Gallery of Australia’s Sculpture Garden. During the lunch, Brinlee Pickering of AILA NSW FRESH will be in conversation with Jacinta McCann FAILA, FASLA, LEED AP, Executive Vice President of AECOM. Based in San Francisco, Jacinta leads AECOM’s Design, Planning and Economics practices globally and is the Past President of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and currently serves on the ULI global awards jury, the Bay Conservation Development Commission Design Review Board, and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Board. She was honoured in 2014 by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the 100 Most Influential Businesswomen in the Bay Area.
42 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Conference Closing Drinks
DATE: Saturday 29 October 2016 TIME: 6:30 – 8:30pm LOCATION: Old Parliament House courtyard, 18 King George Terrace, Parkes COST: free, beverages and snacks available for purchase TO REGISTER: pre-registration is not required for this event
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Relax and reflect at the conclusion of this year’s International Festival of Landscape Architecture: Not In My Backyard Conference at the Old Parliament House courtyard. A five-minute stroll from the National Gallery of Australia, chill out on a picnic rug or bean bag or for the more adventurous participate in bocce or croquet on the lawns. AILA’s Principal Corporate Partner, Lappset, will be offering delegates complimentary drink tokens during the Conference.
43 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Constitution Avenue Redevelopment By Night
DATE: Saturday 29 October 2016 TIME: 8:15–9:30pm COST: free LOCATION: coach collection from Conference Closing Drinks at Old Parliament House TO REGISTER: book now
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The Griffins’ formally adopted Plan for Canberra set the foundations for a city within a natural setting, structured and defined by its surrounding landforms and made up of grand streets and boulevards, exceptional architecture and refined urban spaces. Constitution Avenue is a central element of this plan and a key piece in the successful implementation of The Griffin Legacy. Designed by Jane Irwin Landscape Architects, the redevelopment of the Avenue is set to become an elegant and vibrant mixed- use grand boulevard, linking London Circuit to Russell, increasing the vitality of the Central National Area, and completing the National Triangle. Environmental sustainability is now at the forefront of the Griffin’s vision for Canberra, and as such, the ACT Government, with the help of Integral Lighting, is currently upgrading Canberra’s lighting network to LED technology. LED capabilities will be showcased during this tour, highlighting the use of WE-EF luminaires in the redevelopment of the prominent Constitution Avenue and the illumination of the iconic Australian flag on City Hill. The tour will conclude at the beautifully illuminated #BackyardExperiment, a pop up park by landscape architecture firm, Context, which has transformed Garema Place for the duration of the Festival. 44 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Canberra’s Political Gardens Unlocked
DATE: Sunday 30 October 2016 TIME: 9:00am – 12:30pm COST: free, including refreshments and coach transport LOCATION: coach collection from Canberra CBD TO REGISTER: book now (open to Conference ticket holders only) PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY:
A private tour of the secret gardens of Canberra’s Parliament House, Government House and finishing with morning tea at The Lodge. The gardens of Parliament House have been the backdrop to many of Australia’s most historic moments. But they usually remain hidden from the public’s gaze. This is a rare opportunity to peek inside the building’s many private courtyards. Government House is the primary residence of the Governor-General of Australia. The house is set in 53 hectares of gardens, lawn and parkland. It showcases extensive plantations of trees and sweeping lawns, which provide vistas towards Black Mountain in the north and the Brindabella Ranges in the south. The Lodge is situated within 1.8 hectares of grounds, and has been renovated by several prominent Prime Ministers. Join an experienced guide for a tour of the gardens followed by morning tea.
45 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 National Arboretum Tour
DATE: Sunday 30 October 2016 TIME: 9:30am – 12:00pm LOCATION: National Arboretum, Forest Drive, off Tuggeranong Parkway, Weston Creek COST: free, including coach transport and refreshments TO REGISTER: book now (open to Conference ticket holders only)
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Join landscape architect Perry Lethlean and experienced Arboretum guide for a specialised tour of the National Arboretum. The bus tour will pick up from selected hotels and continue onto the Arboretum. You will get an opportunity to visit the Village Centre and the National Bonsai and Penjing Collection, learn about a range species and take in sweeping views of Canberra. This is a unique opportunity to view the National Arboretum with the designer and ask direct questions about how the project vision was developed, the success of its implementation and what the future holds for the Arboretum. The tour will run for 1 hour and will be followed by morning tea at the Village Centre overlooking Canberra.
46 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Centenary Trail Bushwalk
DATE: Sunday 30 October 2016 TIME: 9:30am – 12:30pm LOCATION: Centenary Trail, Hall COST: $25, including coach transport TO REGISTER: book now
The Centenary Trail is a 145 kilometre self-guided, non- motorised loop trail for walkers and touring cyclists that showcases Canberra and takes users on a journey between urban and rural environments past iconic sites and hidden treasures. It is divided into daily sections, spaced for walkers and bike riders, and users are able to join or leave the trail in many locations. Jennie Curtis, landscape architect living in the Canberra region, is happy to share the region’s treasures with anyone game for a 3 hour bushwalk. The section is the walk from Hall to the summit of One Tree Hill, and back. The trail winds upslope, in and out of tree cover with impressive views along the way. Four of Canberra’s five city/town centres can be seen on a clear day from the top.
47 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Segway Adventure in the Parliamentary Zone
DATE: Sunday 30 October 2016 TIME: 10:00–11:30am LOCATION: Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes COST: $59 TO REGISTER: book now
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Are you game? If you have ever wondered what it would be like to ride a self-balancing Segway, then here is your opportunity. Simply lean forward to go forward. Lean back to stop. Wala! Enjoy an effortless glide around Lake Burley Griffin and areas of the parliamentary zone. This is a fun and unique way of discovering the lakes’ foreshore, famous landmarks and nearby iconic buildings. Many contemporary projects submitted to the ACT Landscape Architecture Awards are located in this area, and a local landscape architect will take you around to selected places in the Parliamentary zone and provide some insight to the area related to our profession. You will receive personalised instruction by qualified experienced guides on the self balancing, personal transporters. A segway is a simple machine that anyone can easily master. You will quickly find yourself riding like an expert, enjoying the lakes beauty in a fraction of the time and having a ton of fun. This tour includes free riding time and a slalom around the cones on Reconciliation Place grass, you’ll love it!
48 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD In My Shoes: Parkourscape
DATE: Sunday 30 October 2016 TIME: 10:00am – 12:00pm LOCATION: Meet at Glebe Park Civic (opposite 332 Bunda St) COST: $30 TO REGISTER: book now
See the city through the eyes of a parkour practitioner. Designed to provide the architecturally-intrigued a new view of the city, this two hour exploration of Canberra will teach you the basics of Parkour while exploring some of our top spots. The workshop will use parkour to connect participants to the city in a way that breathes life into otherwise disused areas and shed light on a unique user group that is growing in cities across Australia. This is an actively involved workshop. You will need loose fitting clothing, exercise shoes and water. Don’t worry, no skill or fitness level whatsoever is required and all ages 16+ are encouraged! All money raised will go to YouthCARE Canberra, helping homeless and at risk Canberra youth.
49 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Conference Speakers
50 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD 51 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Craig Allchin
Adjunct Professor of WEB: sixdegreesurban.com SESSION: New Cities Architecture, UTS Director, Six Degrees Urban
Craig Allchin is currently a director of Six Degrees Urban and Adjunct Professor of Architecture at UTS. Craig has worked in architecture, urban design and strategic planning on cities around the world across a range of scales. Projects have included metropolitan strategies, city extensions and masterplans in China and the Middle East, large urban renewal projects for the private sector, and fine grain strategies and individual projects. This range of experience puts him in a unique position to understand the process of development and change within cities and their component parts.
52 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD What do you think of the expression Not In My What’s your favorite designed place in Backyard in Australia today? Australia? I think Nimby is a term in transition. It was big The Strand Arcade, Sydney – grand, active, in the 90’s, before urbanism became cool. Like compressed, layered, complex, historic, diverse Espresso and Latte’s, good quality urbanism is and beautiful. dripping and frothing out from the centre of cities What do you think of Canberra? into the suburbs and regional centres. Back yards Canberra is a tragic compromise and a great are longer an essential space for Australians to opportunity. covet, worship and protect their entire lives. The We need to solve the biggest problem dream is shifting from fenced off family spaces to of Canberra, its location using Walter Burley connected community places. Griffin’s logic. How do you see the future of the Australian His approach to many projects was to take landscape? the biggest problem and turn it into the solution. More urban and more untamed. Canberra’s isolation and in 20th Century between- If you were the new minister for Australian ness should be the catalyst for building the first cities what would be your priority? phase of an east coast mag-lev fast rail system, Resolve the future urban structure of our major that will eventual run from Noosa to Geelong cities. Cities change very slowly. We have the and create a spine for 21st Century Australia at highest projected growth rates for our major population 60 million. cities of all the developed world countries, with Landscape architecture in Australia is turning Sydney and Melbourne at 60 to 70% growth by 2050 50 – what’s to celebrate? compared to NYC at 20% and London at 30%. The Landscape profession is perfectly positioned We have to get the structure in place to to become even more pivotal in solving the huge ensure our limited road and rail projects work urbanization challenges we have in our cities. towards an agreed, strategic solution. Our aim Landscape Architects understand and employ should be to use the significant population growth systems thinking in their work, appreciate the as a lever to make our cities more liveable, more importance of setting up a framework for growth productive and more sustainable than they are and change, and bring an overlay of design. These today. skills and approaches are in my view, what more What does the Anthropocene mean designers and architects need to deploy in order to you? to think and act holistically to improve each part The Anthropocene is terrifying. But I’m an of our cities. optimist. I feel we are stumbling towards a What are you working on? moment when the forces of globalization, social I’m working on a range of projects across media and technology will fundamentally shift the scales – from Urban Structure Studies of the way we all live on this planet. I’m just not sure Australian Cities for Governments, through what it will take for that moment to arrive. Masterplans for the development industry, Fine Grain strategies for campuses and still tinkering with laneways.
53 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dr Helen Armstrong AM FAILA
Professor-Emeritus of WEB: culturallandscapes.org SESSION: New Views Landscape Architecture stalkingthemargins.com Queensland University of Technology
Dr Helen Armstrong was the Inaugural Professor of Landscape Architecture at Queensland University of Technology 1997–2003 and now is Professor-Emeritus. She has a long history as a practicing landscape architect, Adjunct-Professor, former Centre for Cultural Research, and now research scholar at ICS UWS. She has been a visiting scholar at numerous overseas universities and her work is widely published. She established the Cultural Landscape Research Unit which has undertaken a diverse range of cultural landscape studies. She has undertaken a number of studies on migration and place, including preparing a Guide for Identifying Migrant Heritage Places for the Australian Heritage Commission. Her particular interest in marginal urban landscapes has resulted in new perceptions of landscape in the context of post-urbanism and the book, Marginal Landscapes. She is currently working with Tongji University, China on Cultural Contradictions in Heritage Landscape Interpretation. 54 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD How do you see the future of the Australian meaningful citizen engagement. Re-establish landscape? funding for environmental innovations. Re- Unless the current government and bureaucratic establish the social contract that existed when agendas change, the Australian landscape will AILA was established in the late 60s–70s. Pour mainly be look-alike global cities around the scorn on economic rationalism, small government, coast, visible from national parks and the Great and low taxation for big business. Dividing Range. A few small designed gems What’s your favourite designed place in within the cities. A few compromised remnant Australia? heritage landscapes, possibly rural. In the main, Prince Alfred Park Sydney, especially the mining landscapes and major infrastructure. celebration of the ‘unkempt’ in the southern area. If you were the new minister for Australian What are you working on? cities what would be your priority? Mitigating urban heat islands in Western Sydney Re-instate transparent planning processes with through small local citizen engagement projects.
55 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Kirsten Bauer FAILA
Director, ASPECT Studios WEB: aspect.net.au SESSION: New Techniques Adjunct Professor, SOCIAL: Tw i t t e r, Facebook, RMIT University Linkedin
Box Hill Gardens - ASPECT Studios. Photograph: Andrew Lloyd.
Kirsten is a Director of ASPECT Studios globally and is based in Melbourne. Kirsten has led award winning and significant public realm projects across Australia, particularly in Melbourne. She has been awarded by international and local organisations. She is a current member of the Victorian Design Review Panel and other municipal design review panels in Victoria as well as a long standing invited lecturer, juror and professional advisor at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University. She is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University and is currently on the Yarra River Protection Ministerial Advisory Committee. Kirsten has a practice based interest in digital design techniques and innovative design across all stages of projects. The practice uses an integration of Rhino, Revit, Grasshopper, VRay, Vectorworks/AutoCAD and SketchUp to explore design and document in three dimensions.
56 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Kirsten speaks authoritatively on contemporary landscape practice and regularly gives lectures in universities and industry events across Australia and New Zealand.
What do you think of the expression ‘Not in not only includes green infrastructure but that My Backyard’ in Australia today? operates to reorient our values and change our As someone who has come from the “burbs” behaviours. As a profession, we have to take on a of Melbourne, I am quite nostalgic about the position of leadership. Australian “backyard” as a cultural and social What’s your favourite designed place in phenomena. “Not in my backyard” has become Australia? both a prop for those against change in suburban Too many. I have a fondness for many designed Melbourne and has unfortunately also become spaces. One that springs to mind is my local park a prop against change in broader Australia (i.e. in Brunswick, Melbourne designed by an earlier immigration and racism). landscape architect from the 1970’s. It has trees How do you see the future of the Australian in rows and grids crossing the Merri Creek, which landscape? reveals the natural topography and always seems Hotter, drier, wetter, fuller. I see a future of to be inhabited by a few groups of people doing engaging and culturally rich cities, albeit with their thing. great climatic and social challenges. While my What do you think of Canberra? brain thinks that the world is indeed in trouble, my It has great crisp dry winter mornings. They are heart believes that humanity will work a way back world leaders in the urban forest and street to a sustainable world. trees. Canberra was the location of one of the If you were the new minister for Australian first student conferences I attended in Australia, cities what would be your priority? "Living Canvas" in the late 1980’s, which inspired Getting the necessary planning, funds and a generation of great conceptual conferences designs for public transport in place to provide run by students such as the "Edge 2: Culture equity in access for the community. Changing the of Landscape Architecture" in Melbourne, the planning systems to be more vigilant and strong "W.Edge" in Perth and "The Big Sky: Landscape on sustainability. Also ensuring upfront the values on the Pacific Edge" in Sydney. (economic, social and environmental) of the Landscape architecture in Australia is turning public realm in projects, policies and government 50 – what’s to celebrate? budgets. That we have tradition that has contributed to the What does the Anthropocene mean to you? identity and formation of Australian places. That The Anthropocene is a powerful word that we have matured as a profession. That we have a captures the extent of human influence on our history to build on. planet. What it means is that everything depends What are you working on? on us now. Nature will not sort itself out. Every Working with the state government on protecting action we take has to respond to this new reality. the Yarra River in Melbourne, bringing to fruition As landscape architects, we have to instigate some significant public rail transport projects, processes that ensure the built environment and a number of projects across islands, deserts is made deeply sustainable, with design that and suburbia.
ASPECT Studios – Bunurong Memorial Park Photograph: John Gollings
57 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dr Julian Bolleter
Assistant Professor, WEB: audrc.org SESSION: New Cities Australian Urban Design Research Centre – University of Western Australia
Julian is an Assistant Professor at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia. His role at the AUDRC includes teaching a master’s program in urban design and conducting urban design related research and design projects. Julian is an awarded landscape architect and urban designer and has worked in Australia, the USA, the UK and the Middle East on a range of projects. He has completed a PhD concerning landscape architecture in Dubai and has published three books- including ‘Made in Australia: The future of Australian cities’ (with Richard Weller), ‘Take me to the River: A history of Perth’s foreshore’ and ‘Scavenging the Suburbs’ – a book which audits Perth for ~1,000,000 possible urban infill dwellings. In 2014 Julian was awarded the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects WA gold medal award (in conjunction with Richard Weller).
58 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD What do you think of the expression Not In My What does the Anthropocene mean to you? Backyard in Australia today? The end of the world as we know it… It’s ok but I prefer NIMTOO (not in my term of What’s your favourite designed place in office) or BANANA (build absolutely nothing Australia? anywhere near anything)… Harry Seidler’s forecourt /piazza at the foot of the How do you see the future of the Australian QV1 building in Perth. landscape? What do you think of Canberra? Increasingly pragmatic, complex, and Where is it, I feel like I’m in a cow paddock… interdisciplinary. Landscape architecture in Australia is turning If you were the new minister for Australian 50 – what’s to celebrate? cities what would be your priority? A profession which is thriving. Bracing Australian cities for the impact of climate What are you working on? change. A study exploring how WIFI data can be used to influence the design of the public realm.
59 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dr Catherin Bull AM FAILA MAICD
Emeritus Professor of SESSION: New Views Landscape Architecture, University of Melbourne Adjunct Professor, QUT
Dr Catherin Bull, MLArch (Melbourne), DrDes (Harvard), AM FAILA MAICD is Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne, Adjunct Professor at QUT, Chair of South Bank Corporation, a board member of Building Queensland and a member of the Design Directorate of Urban Growth NSW. She has led national and international consultancies in landscape architecture and urban design, been a Commissioner in the Land and Environment Court of NSW and was an academic for over 20 years, teaching, researching and supervising doctoral students, most recently as the Elisabeth Murdoch Professor of Landscape Architecture. She has published 2 books and over 50 papers in Australia and internationally, including New Conversations with an Old Landscape. Landscape Architecture in Contemporary Australia (Images Publishing 2002) and with co-editors and -authors Cross-cultural Urban Design. Local or Global Practice? (Routledge 2007). In 2011 she chaired and co-authored the OECD Global Science Forum report Effective Modelling of Urban Systems to Address the 60 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Challenges of Climate Change and Sustainability. As an advocate for better quality planning and design she has chaired and serves on juries, planning and design review panels and boards across Australia, including the National Capital Authority, ACT Planning and Land Authority, Capital City Metro, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, the Board for Urban Places Queensland and the Capital City Commission South Australia advising government and industry on urban design and public domain matters. She was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to landscape architecture and urban design.
61 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Craig Burton FAILA
Director, CABCONSULTING WEB: cabconsulting.com.au SESSION: New Views PTY LTD
Leura Garden - CABCONSULTING PTY LTD.
Craig Burton lives and works in Pittwater NSW and is director of CABCONSULTING PTY LTD. He practises as an architect, landscape architect, horticultural consultant, fine arts historian, heritage consultant and environmental studies. He has been involved with environmental heritage issues, particularly in the areas of architecture, cultural landscape identification and assessment since 1981. He holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Western Australia and has been involved in landscape and architectural education since 1979. He is equally experienced as an architectural, landscape and urban designer having undertaken a wide range of design projects and always strives for design excellence through the integration of different disciplines and particularly the interpretation of heritage values and understanding place with contemporary design. He is a Fellow of the AILA and one of his projects has been recognised as part of the forty most significant designed landscapes in Australia and has contributed to many publications concerning the disciplines of landscape and architecture. 62 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD What do you think of the expression Not In My What’s your favorite designed place in Backyard in Australia today? Australia? Provocative. A vernacular front garden in Cygnet Tasmania How do you see the future of the Australian symbolising the plight of Australian culture. landscape? What do you think of Canberra? With concern for its degeneration through private Canberra is Australia’s front garden and contains and political greed. a collection of failed visions embedded in its If you were the new minister for Australian fabric. cities what would be your priority? Landscape architecture in Australia is turning Abolish the States and redesign Australia with 50 – what’s to celebrate? Aboriginal culture as its structural base. Celebrate the potential given the overall positive What does the Anthropocene mean to you? contributions the profession has made in such More semantics but I sense rapid change as a short time despite the Australian community opposed to gradual change. having no understanding of what it is. What are you working on? Integrating Landscape, Architecture, Heritage Conservation, Art, Horticulture and Education whilst trying to get a life.
Jenny Ke Garden - CABCONSULTING PTY LTD. 63 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Steve Calhoun FAILA
Founding Director, Tract WEB: tract.com.au SESSION: New Views Consultants SOCIAL: Tw i t t e r, Instagram
108 Flinders St Melbourne - Tract Consultants Steve Calhoun is a Founding Director of Tract Consultants, and one of the leading practitioners of landscape architecture and urban design in Australia. Coming to Australia in 1976, Steve joined Dr Rodney Wulff in the founding of Tract Consultants. Steve has brought a depth and variety of professional experience to Tract where he continues to specialise in urban design and site planning. His life work has helped to establish high standards in what was a ‘new’ profession in Australia. Steve Calhoun is a Fellow of the Australian Institute and Landscape Architects and a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Victoria.
64 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD How do you see the future of the Australian What’s your favorite designed place in landscape? Australia? Going from strength to strength. Tarrawarra Vineyard in the Yarra Valley. If you were the new minister for Australian Landscape architecture in Australia is turning cities what would be your priority? 50 – what’s to celebrate? Urban Livability w/social gathering and green A wonderful profession that is having a profound spaces. influence. What are you working on? Gardens, public spaces, vineyards, urban fabrics and developments.
Cairns Esplanade - Tract Consultants. 65 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Prof Bradley Cantrell
Associate Professor of WEB: visual-logic.com SESSION: New Techniques Landscape Architectural reactscape.visual-logic.com Technology, Harvard responsivelandscapes.com Graduate School of Design SOCIAL: Tw i t t e r VIDEO: Vimeo
Synthmudscapes Sites - Bradley Cantrell
Bradley Cantrell is a landscape architect and scholar whose work focuses on the role of computation and media in environmental and ecological design. Professor Cantrell received his BSLA from the University of Kentucky and his MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has held academic appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Rhode Island School of Design, and the Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture. He is currently an Associate Professor of Landscape Architectural Technology, MLA Program Director, and co-director of the Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His work in Louisiana over the past decade points to a series of methodologies that develop modes of modeling, simulation, and embedded computation that express and engage the complexity of overlapping physical, cultural, and economic systems. He is the co- author of Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture, Modeling the Environment, and Responsive Landscapes 66 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD which address a broad range of approaches, methods, and conceptual frameworks for the evolving role of technology in the discipline of landscape architecture.
What does the Anthropocene mean to you? learning, and robotics will have a central role in The Anthropocene clarifies a global view that how we maintain and design landscape systems humanity plays a significant role for the future and it is necessary to formulate approaches to of planet earth. Our technological, social, and how these technologies are deployed. In the lab cultural capacities have found agency across the we are using physical and digital simulations globe and it is our responsibility as landscape in conjunction with real-time monitoring to architects to understand how our profession design infrastructures that work as catalysts critically engages at this scale. and choreographers of novel forms of human and What are you working on? animal habitats. My work and the work of my colleagues is How do you see the future of the Australian examining how forms of technology, particularly landscape? computation, will be leveraged to understand I will profess my ignorance in regards to the and design indeterminate landscapes within Australian landscape and I look forward to the complex ecological networks. We believe that discussions at the festival. nascent developments in sensing, machine
Sediment Table Overview - Bradley Cantrell.
67 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Prof Paul Carter
Professor of Design SESSION: New Stories (Urbanism), RMIT University
Paul Carter is a writer and artist and Professor of Design (Urbanism), RMIT University, Melbourne. He has written extensively about the cultural production of colonial space (The Road to Botany Bay: an essay in spatial history, 1987, Ground Truthing: explorations of a creative region, 2010) and the conditions of a postcolonial sociability (Meeting Place: the human encounter and the challenge of coexistence, 2013). Through his design studio Material Thinking, he has contributed to the discourse (Places Made after their Stories: design and the art of choreotopography, 2015) and design of a number of significant public spaces in Australia (including a current project at Yagan Square, Perth, WA). Material Thinking’s most recent public artwork is Rival Channels, located at 180 Ann Street, Brisbane. In 2013 he published his first poetry collection, Ecstacies and Elegies.
68 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Jessica Christiansen-Franks
Project Director, The SESSION: New Practices Neighbourhood Project
Jessica is a qualified Urban Designer and Landscape Architect with over fourteen years’ experience working within Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and Asia planning and delivering a wide variety of urban projects for the public and private sector. Jessica’s passion and expertise lies in town centre design and management, public space activation, and community engagement. Working as a project manager, urban designer and landscape architect, Jessica has worked on a range of notable and complex urban projects including the Ho Chi Minh City BRT Transport and Land Use Study, the Port Melbourne Waterfront Urban Design Framework, and Brisbane’s Vibrant Laneways and Small Scale Spaces Strategy. Recognising that community development is an essential skill for all urban designers, Jessica augmented her professional experience by undertaking tertiary research into the social impacts of urbanisation, including identity construction in existing and emerging communities and social marginalisation of urban migrants. Jessica has applied this understanding through her community development work across 69 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Victoria, as well as with donor agencies in South Asia and South East Asia. Jessica is the Project Director for The Neighbourhood Project, Australia’s largest Tactical Urbanism program which will see the transformation of underutilised land into vibrant community assets across Victoria.
70 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Daniel Crooks
Artist SESSION: New Signs
Practising across a range of media including video, photography and installation, Daniel Crooks’ work has been widely exhibited both in Australia and internationally. Recent museum shows include Phantom Ride in 2016 at ACMI, Melbourne; Daniel Crooks: Motion Studies at GOMA, Brisbane in 2015, and in 2013 a survey show at the Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide. Recent group shows include Melbourne Now, NGV, Melbourne; Marking Time, MCA, Sydney; 2012 Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia; Yebisu International Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo and the 17th Biennale of Sydney. A graduate of the VCA School of Film and Television, Crooks has received numerous awards including the Jury Prize from the Singapore Art Museum, the City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation and the inaugural Basil Sellers Art Prize. In 1997 He received an Australia Council Fellowship and has undertaken residencies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and the FutureLab in Linz.
71 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dorte Ekelund
Director General, Environment WEB: environment.act.gov.au SESSION: New Cities and Sustainable Development SOCIAL: Tw i t t e r – ACT Government
Dorte Ekelund is the Director-General, Environment and Planning Directorate. Dorte has had extensive experience in urban planning and administration across all spheres of government. In her current role, she is responsible for overseeing the development of policies and programs that promote sustainable living and resource use, responding to the challenges of climate change, and providing an integrated planning, transport and land use system that contributes to the sustainable development and future of the ACT. Equity of access to services and facilities, the provision of lifestyle and transport options, and transitioning to a less carbon intensive community are central objectives of Dorte’s work. Dorte has previously headed up the Major Cities Unit in the Australian Government, worked in NSW local government and held the role of the Deputy Director General of the Western Australian Department for Planning and Infrastructure. 72 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD What do you think of the expression, ‘Not in What’s your favourite designed place in my backyard’ in Australia today? Australia? A quaint expression, but one that I still quite Can I please have two? One of the most like because the majority of people still do have egalitarian places in Australia, is Southbank in backyard, even if they are getting smaller! Some Brisbane, which welcomes all to enjoy open space people, like me, have a balcony rather than the and water. More parochially, here in Canberra, traditional ‘backyard’. This expression particularly I enjoy the Acton precinct with its response to refers to the fact that people love and are heritage, ambition in architecture, commitment to protective over these special spaces. the arts and sustainability and general enjoyment How do you see the future of the Australian of space. landscape? What do you think of Canberra? Australia is such a huge continent that the I think Canberra is a city blessed to experience Australian landscape, with all its beauty, will for the four seasons! But beyond that, I see the most part endure. But there are parts of it Canberra is a young city that is still maturing and under pressure, possibly even threat. For example, developing in complexity and layers of culture. It if we consider the Great Barrier Reef forms part has strong bones thanks to Walter Burley Griffin of the ‘landscape’, it is clear climate change is and Marion Mahony Griffin. Its layout respects the having a considerable impact. Likewise, human landscape and provides our local community with activity is having a major impact on landscapes as high levels of amenity. It’s a very easy place to we undertake land clearing to produce agricultural live, and its well-educated community generates land, exploit minerals and resources, and build our lively and largely progressive debates. cities and industries. Landscape architecture in Australia is turning If you were the new minister for Australian 50 – what’s to celebrate? cities, what would be your priority? Living infrastructure – how fantastic is it? It has I would seek the involvement of key stakeholders, guided the growing of civilisation and will be decision-makers and influencers, and where critical to adapting urban systems in respect to possible, get them to put some skin in the game. climate change. It brings our innate love of nature As part of this, I would establish a Cabinet into our cities. sub-committee of ministers to ensure that What are you working on? key portfolio ministers engage with the role • Delivering 100% renewable electricity for the and impact of their portfolios on cities. This ACT. sub-committee would be advised by a whole-of- • Adaptation Strategy implementation, government inter-departmental committee, along including Living Infrastructure policies. with an industry and stakeholder reference group • ACT Healthy Waterways project to provide the broadest possible advice and action implementation. on the complex issues affecting cities. • Master planning to facilitate stages of the What does the Anthropocene mean to you? ACT light rail system. It is a term that recognises that the advent of • Decarbonising ACT Government operations. modern human beings has dramatically changed • Policy settings to decarbonise the transport, the planet in unprecedented ways and with waste and built form sectors. unprecedented speed, and that the impact of this • Managing Parks and Conservation areas, change is very often destructive. including re-introduction of species that have become locally extinct.
73 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Jock Gilbert AILA
Lecturer, RMIT University WEB: interpretivewonderings. SESSION: New Stories com abc.net.au/radionational/ programs/rnafternoons/ more-than-one-way-to- map-country
Culpra sunrise - Jock Gilbert.
Jock coordinates the Lower Pool Design Studio stream in the Landscape Architecture program at RMIT and has led Design Studio based projects in Vietnam, East Africa and regional and remote Australia. He also teaches into the Theoretical Frameworks and Elective streams. Jock has an abiding interest in the unrepresentable and fleeting nature of the formless sublime thought and its relationship to landscape through the stories of the everyday. He is currently engaged in design research practice which seeks the elevation of these stories, through the mapping, to the scale of the epic through a ‘working of the ground’ in a series of regional community- based projects located in Western New South Wales. These projects seek to open a transformative space of encounter through the active blending of methodologies and the interpretive juxtaposition of stories, ontologies and knowledge systems, engendering collaboration and participation in the development of frameworks for future endeavours with concrete, realisable outcomes. 74 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD What’s your favorite designed place in earth – this is a landscape condition. Argument Australia? surrounds the birth date of the Anthropocene, My favorite designed place in Australia remains this is not necessarily a useful argument as it is Royal Park and the ‘hill’ in particular. Although bound in the modernist project springing from Melbourne’s waterways and rivers get a better Cartesian thought. Most landscape discourse has press, the park and the ‘hill’ remain sites upon and continues to be grounded in this tradition. The which and through which social discourse is Anthropocene provides an opportunity – a need played out in both spatial and temporal senses. – for the discipline to reexamine the foundation It is deeply suggestive of pre-colonial time, is upon which it rests and consequently the way/s a reservoir of memory around much colonial in which we as a discipline engage with and endeavor and provides a way of thinking about a understand the world. contemporary engagement with space. How do you see the future of the Australian If you were the new minister for Australian landscape? cities what would be your priority? I hope the above capture my hope for the future of If I were the new minister for Australian cities my the Australian landscape. priority would be to look to the regions and the What are you working on? relationship/s of the cities to the regions. It is in I am currently working predominantly on my and through the framing of this relationship that Phd which seeks and explores participatory and the city must develop. collaborative means through which Indigenous What does the Anthropocene mean to you? Knowledge might inform the practice of landscape To my thinking the Anthropocene is the coming architecture – an exploration conducted through together of human and geologic history such the Murray-Darling Basin and the Darling River in that human activity, taken as a whole might particular. be considered as a force which acts upon the
75 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Prof Clive Hamilton AM
Professor of Public Ethics, WEB: clivehamilton.com SESSION: New Epoch? Centre for Applied Philosophy WEB: Tw i t t e r and Public Ethics
Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and public intellectual. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, a joint centre of Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne. He is based at Charles Sturt University’s Canberra campus. Clive’s 2010 book, titled Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change, was published by Earthscan and Allen & Unwin and had a wide impact. His most recent book, Earthmasters: The dawn of the age of climate engineering, was published by Yale University Press and Allen & Unwin in 2013. In 2009 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his contribution to public debate and public policy.
What do you think of the expression Not In My If you were the new minister for Australian Backyard in Australia today? cities what would be your priority? If people do not protect their own backyards, then Invest massively in a highly efficiency rail who will? network, including a very fast train from Brisbane How do you see the future of the Australian to Melbourne. landscape? What do you think of Canberra? Parched, bleak and stressed. Canberra is my home. People who do not like Canberra should not come here.
76 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Dr Jason Ho
Founding Director, Urban WEB: urbaninformalitylab.org SESSION: New Practices Informality Lab SOCIAL: Facebook , Linkedin
Following Map - Jason Ho.
Jason Ho is a Founding Director of Urban Informality Lab, Melbourne. Jason has taught and practiced at a large number of universities and design firms in both Australia and China. He serves on Expert Advisory Committees of several international organizations including Asia Architecture and Urbanism Alliance and China’s Landscape Design Industry Associations. Jason is currently the international editor of Landscape Architecture China. Jason received a PhD from RMIT University, in which his creative design research is focused on the mapping of boundary walls in China. After his PhD completion in 2014, Jason embarked on a thesis dissemination tour in China. He has now delivered talks at more than 70 universities and design institutions across the nation. During his national speaking tour between 2014 and 2016, Jason led 20 mapping workshops at different architectural schools. Jason also holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture from RMIT University, where he explored the concept of “Landscape Urbanism” through the understanding of supermarket organization. His work “Where is Milk?” was exhibited at the 2008 Shanghai Biennale. 77 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 How do you see the future of the Australian Park’s house in Victoria. The reason is because landscape? the garden makes intimate connection to my In Australia, some of the remote and small everyday life, and I am able to watch how it grows regional towns are being left empty. People are and transforms over time. To me, landscape is not dying to migrant to the cities along the coast. just a picturesque thing, but most importantly, a How the future of the Australian landscape could living organ for incubating the everyday lives of engage with the regeneration of these remote and ordinary people. small regional towns becomes more critical than If you were the new minister for Australian ever before. cities what would be your priority? What do you think of Canberra? Keeping my promises. I am a person who doesn’t favor the concept of What are you working on? picturesqueness. Or perhaps I’m from a chaotic I am currently leading a design workshop entitled Asian city? “Utopia in the Ruins” in China’s Guangzhou City. What’s your favorite designed place in It is a real project. The developers would love to Australia? see alternative design strategies of dealing with My little backyard garden at my Chirnside abandoned factory buildings in China.
78 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Prof Richard Hobbs
School of Plant Biology, SESSION: New Natures The University of Western Australia
Richard leads the Ecosystem Restoration and Intervention Ecology Research Group. Originally from Scotland, he spent 3 years in California and has been in Western Australia since 1984, working with CSIRO and at Murdoch University before joining UWA in 2009. He is the author of over 300 scientific publications and author/editor of 20 books. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and was 2011 Western Australian Scientist of the Year. His research focuses on effective ecosystem interventions in a changing world.
79 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dr Wolfgang Kesslinger
Principal, Transsolar WEB: transsolar.com SESSION: New Techniques VIDEO: You Tub e
Transsolar project at the World EXPO 2015 in Milan.
Wolfgang Kessling is physicist and climate engineer based in Munich, Germany. He is one of the principals of Transsolar and frequently lecturing on sustainable design. Wolfgang’s research and development work focuses on high comfort – low energy buildings and design for outdoor comfort in urban settings. With several projects in the tropics his team is leaving paths of conventional air conditioning and implementing adaptive comfort concepts supporting a smooth transition between outdoor and indoor areas, well suitable for tropical climates and lifestyle. In Asia he was involved in the design of the first Zero Energy Office in Malaysia, in the climate and energy concepts for the cooled conservatories at the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore as well as the net zero energy design of the School of Design at the National University of Singapore. In 2012 he was invited to give a TED talk on outdoor comfort at the opening ceremony of the first TEDx Summit in Doha, Qatar. 80 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD What do you think of the expression Not In My With an open question we initiated a simple Backyard in Australia today? dialog on the quality of spaces in cities, also We are Climate Engineers at Transsolar. We in regards to outdoor comfort. There is a lot of notice that the incremental improvement in design common sense what people like in their cities. does not lead into a real greening of the build So cars are hardly found on any favored place environment. What we design and build shall (download the online publication here). contribute to a better world, use fewer resources, What are you working on? preserve the biosphere and create a better In outdoor environments people have many livability. adaptive choices to find thermal comfort We are stuck as professional community. The (download the interactive ebook here). In indoor world is changing fast, demand is growing faster environments we lost that sense. For some than we can learn and implement. Do not copy decades high comfort was only attributed to a architectural design from the western world, do very static thermal environment. Designing for not copy static comfort design from the western adaptive comfort can reduce technical systems world. For a lower carbon society we quickly need and energy demand by about 50% without to find new answers. sacrificing thermal delight in the tropics. So: NIMBY in Australia? This is challenging At the moment we are fascinated to work on the real contribution of our professional transferring adaptive comfort concepts into the community, living and working in a place blessed design of buildings, buildings which breathe and with resources. offer an intense connection of indoor and outdoor What’s your favorite designed place? spaces.
Transsolar project at the World EXPO 2015 in Milan.
81 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Simon Kilbane
Senior Lecturer/Course WEB: uts.edu.au SESSION: New Natures Director Landscape Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
Simon is a landscape architect and academic with more than 15 years of experience working and teaching across Australia, UK, France, USA, Peru and New Zealand. His current role is as course director of the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Technology Sydney. Simon’s research and teaching explores the nexus between landscape architecture, ecological and urban design from the scale of the street to the urban region. He pursues creative and suitable responses for Australia’s lands and cities to current and future environmental challenges including rapid urban growth and climate change and argues for the critical role of landscape architecture to genuinely accommodate all species – and not just our own – through design.
How do you see the future of the Australian environmental consequences of the selfishness landscape? and inaction of previous generations (i.e. climate Complex, contested, ancient landscape that needs change, urbanisation, drastically changed greater recognition and embrace. landscapes, rural collapse, global environmental If you were the new minister for Australian refugees). cities what would be your priority? What’s your favorite designed place in Integrated green space systems for their Australia? broad societal, active transport, ecological and The Overland Track (TAS) – an amazing environmental benefits. experience at every level, yet distinctly Australian. What does the Anthropocene mean to you? What do you think of Canberra? Unfortunately, the generation born into the Good air, good cycling, olive green eucalypt-clad Anthropocene will live out the collective hills. 82 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Perry Lethlean FAILA
Director, Taylor Cullity WEB: tcl.net.au SESSION: New Views Lethlean
National Arboretum Canberra - TCL & TZG. Photograph: John Gollings.
Perry Lethlean is Director of the Melbourne office of Taylor Cullity Lethlean. He was one of the first students to participate in the RMIT University Landscape Architecture program at its inception in 1982. Completion of an Urban Design Masters followed in 1992. Perry is considered to be one of Australia’s and more recently one of the world’s leading contemporary urban and landscape designers. His work is widely published, particularly his successful entries for major national and international design competitions including the National Arboretum in Canberra and the University of Sydney. His skills in urban design, at both the large master planning and detailed design scale, make him a valuable asset to TCL and clients. He is a sought after design lecturer and critic at Universities and as a juror for professional practice awards and advisory design bodies. Perry has led the successful implementation of complex landscape and urban projects such as The Forest Gallery at the Melbourne Museum, The National Arboretum Canberra, winner of the 2014 World Architecture Festival, ‘Landscape of the Year’, Auckland 83 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Waterfront – North Wharf Promenade & Silo Park NZ, winner of the 2014 Rosa Barba Landscape Prize, and The Australian Garden, Cranbourne which won the 2013 WAF, ‘Landscape of the Year’ Award. His experience varies from the preparation of large scale urban design frameworks and master plans to the detailed design of urban spaces. Perry’s commitment to quality design outcomes permeates his work at all scales resulting in urban environments that are both beautiful and vital.
Australian Garden, Stage 2, Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne - TCL & Paul Thompson. Photograph: John Gollings. 84 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Andrew Lilleyman
Director, ARM Architecture WEB: armarchitecture.com.au SESSION: New Signs SOCIAL: LinkedIn
Perth Arena - ARM Architecture.
Andrew is a Director at Ashton Raggatt McDougall, a leading architectural practice in Australia. Currently living and in Perth, Western Australia, Andrew works on the design direction of significant cultural projects and urban development’s which attempt to rethink and reshape Australian urban centers. These include the recently completed Geelong Library and Heritage Centre, Gold Coast Cultural Precinct, Perth Arena and Elizabeth Quay. His contribution to projects focuses on realizing conceptual ideas and integrated architectural designs, achieved through research and digital generation. In addition to practice, he teaches design and theory at the University of Western Australia, is a contributor to ARM’s Mongrel Rapture plus local and national architectural magazines. Andrew is frequently invited to be a design award juror and regularly contributes to the profession, student body and wider community through publication, exhibition and presentations. Andrew’s knowledge of design strategies, methodologies and the array of digital techniques 85 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 considers the wider practice of Australian Architecture and new ways to design.
What do you think of the expression Not In My opportunity, responsible creativity, conscious Backyard in Australia today? capitalism etc. I know what it means historically. I think people What’s your favorite designed place in are now asking “why isn’t it in my backyard?”, or Australia? WiiMBY? My home courtyard/back room. And yes, that is How do you see the future of the Australian IMBY. The family spend a lot of time in there, so landscape? we tried to make it good. Something like Pokemon Go – perhaps? What are you working on? What does the Anthropocene mean to you? Joondalup Performing Arts and Cultural Facility. A series of complex oxymoron’s – fearful
Elizabeth Quay Perth - ARM Architecture & TCL. Photograph: Peter Bennetts. 86 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Prof Helen Lochhead
Dean, University of NSW SOCIAL: Tw i t t e r, Instagram, SESSION: Gen Z Built Environment LinkedIn VIDEO: Youtube
Helen Lochhead is cross-disciplinary, an architect, urban and landscape designer and combines teaching, research, practice and advisory roles. Her career has focused on the inception, planning, design and delivery of complex multidisciplinary projects ranging from a city wide improvements program for the City of Sydney leading up to the 2000 Olympics to major urban regeneration and waterfront projects both in Australia and the US. More recently she led the development of 30-year plan for the transformation of Sydney Cove and was instrumental in setting a new strategic vision for Sydney Harbour. Her projects have received numerous awards including an AIA Urban Design Award, AILA Urban Design and Sustainability Awards. In addition, her professional contribution to practice has been recognised through the AIA Marion Mahony Griffin Award, the NAWIC Vision Award for leadership in the construction industry and the AIA NSW President’s Prize. A graduate of both the Sydney and Columbia Universities she has taught in Australia and the United States, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney, at UTS and UNSW and also as a visiting 87 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 academic at Harvard, MIT and Columbia Universities. In 2014–15 she was also the Lincoln/Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy where her research interrogated design strategies for building more resilient waterfront cities.
What do you think of the expression Not In My combine some of the best of nature and human Backyard in Australia today? endeavor, the necklace of public waterfront parks As I see it, the provocation, Not In My Backyard and urban places, the harbour beaches, pools is clearly affirming that the most pressing and islands, the post-industrial sites remediated environmental and inevitably urban challenges of and now transformed into stunning new urban our time are no longer someone else’s problem, parks; places like Ballast Point and Pirrama Parks no longer out there, but are now firmly within our and Cockatoo Island. Both the ordinary everyday sights and our responsibilities to address. places where you can launch a dinghy or take a dip What does the Anthropocene mean to you? and the extraordinary such as the Sydney Opera An era where the world in which we live is House and Botanic Gardens. The whole is much predominantly shaped by human intervention. more than the sum of the parts. It never fails to The consequences of which are both positive and surprise and delight, no matter how well you think negative. As most of these challenges are created you may know it. by humanity we have the task of dealing with the What are you working on? challenges now presented. How to inspire and motivate the next generation What’s your favorite designed place in of practitioners to take up the design challenges Australia? posed by climate change and accelerating Sydney Harbour, for the sublime engagement of urbanization. landscape and human intervention. The foreshores
88 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Prof Jeff Malpas
Distinguished Professor, WEB: jeffmalpas.com SESSION: New Stories University of Tasmania
Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania, Visiting Distinguished Professor at Latrobe University, and Adjunct Professor in Architecture at RMIT University. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books with some of the world’s leading academic presses, and has published over 120 scholarly articles on topics in philosophy, art, architecture, and geography. His work draws on the thinking of a diverse range of thinkers including, most notably, Albert Camus, Donald Davidson, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Much of his work is focussed on the idea of place and on the character of human being as standing in an essential relation to place leading to the characterisation of his work as a mode of ‘philosophical topography’.
89 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 What do you think of the expression Not In My as the key element in landscape connectedness Backyard in Australia today? and accessibility. “Not In My Backyard” is not an expression to If you were the new minister for Australian which I have given much thought, perhaps partly cities what would be your priority? because I am suspicious of slogans and summary Perhaps not one single initiative, since the real catch phrases. These sorts of expressions also issues here are not independent of one another, tend to take on a life of their own that is often but a set of interlinked strategies that would aim divorced from any real context. That aside, what to address the need to shift to more renewable I would add in general terms is that although and sustainable forms of forms of energy and “Not In My Backyard” is usually associated design, the need to engage individuals and with a defensive refusal of responsibility, one communities more directly with the landscapes in might argue that it is a defensiveness that arises which they live and which sustain them, and the precisely in reaction to what many perceive, need to develop more effective means of public whether rightly or wrongly, as unwarranted decision-making and action to support these first intrusions into their neighborhoods and two objectives. communities. That suggests that whatever we What does the Anthropocene mean to you? think of this reaction it is indicative of a deeper For me it is a problematic concept that actually set of issues with which we ought to engage. reinforces the core idea of modern humanism, How do you see the future of the Australian namely, that the world is subject to the human – landscape? so much so that, in this case, the age of the world The ‘Australian landscape’ is such a broad term comes to be named in terms of the human. This that it is hard to offer a simple answer to this is not to dispute the cataclysmic environmental question and there is surely no single ‘landscape’ impact of human activity to which the idea of the that is uniquely ‘Australian’. The scientific fact Anthropocene supposedly draws attention, but is that much of the Australian continent and its rather takes issue with the very subjectification of islands, and so the landscapes that belong to the world that the Anthropocene itself reasserts. them, will be subject to increased temperatures, It is precisely because the world is not determined reduced rainfall, raised sea-levels, and more solely by the human, is not subject to the control extreme weather events. Coupled with other of the human, that environmental catastrophe environmental pressures, all of this presages beckons – environmental catastrophe is thus a significant changes for the character of Australian marker of our own limitation and so of the extent landscapes – changes likely to include changes to which the present age is one to which we are in fauna and flora (both in nature and diversity of subject rather than being that which is subject species) as well as in the character of the land, to us. especially of waterways and coastal regions, What’s your favorite designed place in and in the manner of human engagement with Australia? landscapes. Since the self-evident environmental My garden – also the designed place I know best. challenges at work here seem to have had so What do you think of Canberra? little impact on many areas of Governmental I think of it as the place where I spent a very policy – such policy often seeming to operate in enjoyable and productive time as a PhD student at defiance of the environmental facts – the outlook the ANU; as a place where I have spent too many for Australian landscapes overall might thus hours in fruitless lobbying; and as an intriguing be thought rather bleak (all the more so for key and innovative experiment in urban design that maritime landscapes such as the Barrier Reef). was eventually overtaken by bureaucracy (but It is not clear that the outlook is any different for some elements of which still manage to shine Australian urban landscapes, since although through). there are important instances of genuinely Landscape architecture in Australia is turning visionary and innovative approaches being 50 – what’s to celebrate? adopted, these often seem few and far between, That this remains a field that draws passionate and the environmental challenges that affect and engaged practitioners and theorists who our cities no less than our non-urban places and continue to care about the issues at stake and the regions are exacerbated by what often seems landscapes around us. to be shortsightedness and lack of vision in the What are you working on? policy and planning decisions that affect our Too many things. Among other projects: a small cities. It remains the case that one of the most book with the poet Kenneth White; a new edition ubiquitous and ambiguously problematic of of my 1999 book Place and Experience; a new book Australian landscapes is the highway – and one of on the ethics of place; an attempt to deconstruct the pressing challenges is to shift governmental the pervasive but problematic ideas of ‘dwelling’ perception away from an obsessive reliance on and ‘authenticity’; renovating a 100 year old house motor vehicles and their associated infrastructure and garden.
90 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Jacinta McCann, FASLA, FAILA, LEED AP
Executive Vice President, SOCIAL: Tw i t t e r SESSION: New Views AECOM
Jacinta has worked for more than 30 years to enhance the quality of cities and communities around the globe. Originally from Sydney where she worked on large scale urban regeneration projects including the Sydney Olympics, Jacinta has continued to work on complex, integrated, design and planning projects such as Mission Bay in San Francisco and Nova Luz in Sao Paulo. Sustainability and landscape performance underpin Jacinta’s approach to design and more recently she has focused on the role of landscape in building resiliency in the face of sea level rise. Jacinta leads AECOM’s Design, Planning and Economics practices globally and is the Past President of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF), and currently serves on the ULI global awards jury, the Bay Conservation Development Commission (BCDC) Design Review Board, and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) board. She was honored in 2014 by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the 100 most influential business women in the Bay Area.
91 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 What do you think of the expression Not In My drought. An increase in residential density needs Backyard in Australia today? to parallel improved transit. There is a frightening global move to isolationism What do you think of Canberra? which I can’t see changing any time soon. The Burley Griffin plan was an inspired landscape Rejecting things that are socially irresponsible construct. I love the sense of space that envelops and harmful to our precious resources need to be the formality of the core triangle axes, and the front and center for our profession. We need to constant connection to nature with just enough speak up. urbanism to make this place plausible as the How do you see the future of the Australian nation’s capital. I haven’t been to Canberra for landscape? almost 20 years so am looking forward to seeing We are fortunate to have a very large and diverse it again. landscape and relatively few people. We need to Landscape architecture in Australia is turning protect and replenish fragile ecosystems, keep 50 – what’s to celebrate? food and water sources healthy, and provide safe We now have a third generation landscape access to places that lift the human spirit. We architects making a positive impact on our cities. also need to accommodate significant population I love the creativity and experimentation that is growth coupled with longer term migration to illustrated by the current body of work which I places that will accommodate life in the face of read about in Landscape Australia and experience climate change. in my firm. If you were the new minister for Australian What are you working on? cities what would be your priority? I am working on a resiliency plan for the City of Urban infrastructure without any question. Miami Beach. Streets flood at high tide so no one People need to be able to move around without questions sea level rise. We are designing a more having to rely on driving, even with the prospect resilient storm water system and changing city of automated vehicles. Utilities need to be able development policies and codes. Retreat is not an to accommodate population growth and water option at this point in time. supply needs to be able to withstand periods of
92 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Adrian McGregor
Managing Director, WEB: mcgregorcoxall.com SESSION: New Cities McGregor Coxall
Australian Garden, National Gallery of Australia - McGregor Coxall. Photograph: John Gollings.
Adrian McGregor is a landscape architect and urbanist. He is the founder and CEO of McGregor Coxall, a multi- disciplinary design firm located in Australia, China and the UK dedicated to assisting cities achieve sustainable prosperity. Nominated as one of Sydney’s 100 most creative people he is passionate about cities, he has received more than 60 awards including the prestigious European Topos Prize presented in Iceland and the Prime Minister of Australia’s Urban Design award. In 2006 Adrian founded Biocity Research and is currently writing a book about biourbanism as a platform for building city resilience.
93 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Nicky McNamara
Project Manager/Design – WEB: cat.org.au SESSION: New Practices Community Infrastructure Projects Team, Centre for Appropriate Technology
Alyuen Laundry door painting - Centre for Appropriate Technology © Centre for Appropriate Technology & Central Land Council.
Nicky McNamara is a Landscape Architect and project manager. In the Community Infrastructure Team at the Centre for Appropriate Technology, Alice Springs Nicky is working with remote Indigenous communities to design and construct infrastructure projects such as meeting places, art centres and toilet/ablution blocks. These facilities assist Indigenous people to live on country. Prior to working at CAT Nicky worked at Taylor Cullity Lethlean as a Landscape Architect, where she developed detailed design and contract administration skills on a number of internationally award winning Landscape Architecture and Urban Design projects. Nicky has also had experience working with Codesign Studio on projects where participatory design and engagement practices were implemented in marginal communities of Victoria. With CAT and Codesign she has pursued an interest in facilitating community development through training and local participation, leading to a greater 94 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD sense of ownership and empowering people to shape the spaces that they live in. This is achieved by unpacking and reshaping conventional design and construction processes to involve the end user at every opportunity.
Landscape architecture in Australia is turning Design and documentation of a ranger 50 – what’s to celebrate? station in a remote community. Our common interests in connecting ecology and Assisting in design and documentation of a the built environment. house and campground at a homeland in Kakadu. The fact that Landscape Architects are still Design and Project Management of some defining their discipline and are able to adapt sculptural works for a light festival. to deal with contemporary issues of culture and What does the Anthropocene mean to you? environment. It is necessary to engage with cultural, social, We are a diverse group with an ability to adapt. political and economic structures in order to have What are you working on? an impact on our environment. As Landscape Design and Project Management of Art studio Architects we can capitalise on shared visitor facilities at an outstation near Alice Springs. experiences of space and landscape to encourage public and citizen custodianship.
Alyuen Laundry door painted by community - Centre for Appropriate Technology. © Centre for Appropriate Technology & Central Land Council. 95 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Prof Elizabeth Mossop
Spackman Mossop + Michaels WEB: spackmanmossopmichaels. SESSION: New Views landscape architects com
Lamar Advertising Headquarters Green Roof - Spackman Mossop + Michaels.
Elizabeth Mossop is a founding principal of Spackman Mossop + Michaels landscape architects, based in Sydney and New Orleans. Their work has been recognized by numerous awards in landscape and urban design, and planning. She has held leadership positions at Harvard GSD, the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University and the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Her practice is focused on the design of parks, urban spaces, infrastructure and urban revitalization. Current areas of focus include vacant lands and urban revitalization, landscape infrastructure and coastal resilience. She holds a BLA from the University of New South Wales and an MUP from Macquarie University.
96 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Ellen Neises
Department of Landscape SESSION: New Natures Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
Lifelines aerial image - Ellen Neises.
Ellen Neises teaches landscape design at the graduate school of design at the University of Pennsylvania and works on large-scale and large-scope design and policy problems involving land, water and development. Ellen’s research interests include climate adaptation for coastal cities, sustainability of high-yield production agriculture, regional planning strategies for industry and agriculture, and community-based planning and design. Ellen co-led the PennDesign / OLIN team’s work on Hunts Point Lifelines, one of the 6 winning entries in the 2014 Rebuild by Design competition. The PennDesign / OLIN team was recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation as one of 4 “global resiliency innovators” for its comprehensive, culture-shifting, resilience proposal for the South Bronx. Prior to teaching at Penn in 2011, Ellen was an associate partner at James Corner Field Operations, where she developed designs for a wide range of project types involving development strategy, complex water dynamics, ecological reclamation, and bold physical 97 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 design, including Fresh Kills Park in Staten Island, Lake Ontario Park in Toronto, stormwater infrastructure on the Harlem River, mixed use waterfront developments and other project types.
Lifelines aerial image - Ellen Neises.
98 ———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Mark Raggatt
Director, ARM Architecture WEB: armarchitecture.com.au SESSION: New Signs
Mark Raggatt is an architect with ARM Architecture in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked at all scales from houses to large scale urban design, contributing to the built environment directly. Mark is also an editor, teacher, curator and critic. Recently he has edited Mongrel Rapture: the Architecture of ARM, published by URO. He teaches design in the Masters of Architecture programme at RMIT in Melbourne, his current series of studios is concerned with impolite dinner conversation; politics, religion, sex, and death and how architects might respond, if able. Amongst other exhibitions, Mark recently developed a public programme and exhibition called Blue Now: Blue Epoch at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) as part of the huge show called Melbourne Now. Mark’s work in practice, pedagogy, curation and criticism has earnt him a broad and erudite knowledge in the discipline of architecture. 99 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 What do you think of the expression Not In My What does the Anthropocene mean to you? Backyard in Australia today? The beginning of the end of the beginning. It seems a natural result of the alienation we have What do you think of Canberra? from one another. I like Canberra. It has its own character, if you’re How do you see the future of the Australian willing to see it (you’ve got to get up early). landscape? Landscape architecture in Australia is turning Local, sustainable, culturally sensitive, full of 50 – what’s to celebrate? ideas! It’s getting more Australian! If you were the new minister for Australian What are you working on? cities what would be your priority? More ideas! Transport – roads, rail, pedals.
100———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Prof Margaret Sommerville
Professor of Education, SESSION: New Stories Director Centre for Educational Research Western Sydney University
Rock and billy fire - Margaret Sommerville.
Margaret Somerville is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Educational Research, University of Western Sydney. Drawing on a long history of collaborative research with Australian Aboriginal communities about relationship to place, she is interested in how we can learn different stories for wellbeing of the planet. Her recent book Water in a Dry Land (Routledge, 2013) explores alternative stories of water with Aboriginal artists in the Murray Darling Basin and Children, Place and Sustainability (Somerville & Green, Palgrave, 2015) views the world through stories from children of the Anthropocene. Her local riverlands is a current preoccupation from her daily walks in an urban commons and with the river she asks: How can I bring the riverlands to you, smell of wild fennel in sun after rain, tinkle of bellbirds, rise and fall of cicada call, and clip clop of gumboots through wet of last nights dew? 101 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dr Mark Stafford Smith
Chief Coordinating Scientist WEB: csiro.au SESSION: New Natures – Adaptation, CSIRO research.csiro.au/climate/ Chair, Science Committee – FutureEarth.org Future Earth
Dr Mark Stafford Smith is based in Canberra, Australia, and looks after coordinating Adaptation Research across CSIRO; he oversights a highly interdisciplinary program of research on many aspects of adapting to climate change, as well as regularly interacting with national and international policy issues. He has over 30 years’ experience in drylands systems ecology, management and policy, including senior roles such as CEO of the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre in Alice Springs. His significant international roles include being past vice-chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme’s Scientific Committee. In 2012 he was co- chair of the Planet Under Pressure: New Knowledge Towards Solutions conference on global environmental change in the lead up to Rio+20. In 2013 he was appointed Chair of the inaugural Science Committee for Future Earth, which aims to help coordinate research towards global sustainability worldwide.
102———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD How do you see the future of the Australian for Australia, and engaging everyone in a landscape? conversation about it in conjunction with the At risk in the south due to climate change and Prime Minister... What settlement pattern at risk in the north due to development; yet both do we want in Australia in 2050+ with what capable of being managed to continue to deliver consequences? Then I would change the things good human wellbeing if we make the right we measure (e.g. much less emphasis on GDP) choices. In particular, urbanisation is meaning to determine whether we are heading in a broadly that we are becoming poorer at governing rural preferred direction, acknowledging this will not be and remote areas, the largest area by far of precisely defined. Australia, even if lightly populated. Since it is What does the Anthropocene mean to you? also the source of most resources and ecosystem It means an era where, globally, we are services for cities, this is a risky outcome. demonstrably responsible for our own futures and If you were the new minister for Australian we can no longer blame someone else (e.g. God) cities what would be your priority? or expect them to fix up our own (and unitary) Visioning and communicating a 50 year vision world life support system.
103 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dr Naomi Stead
Acting Head of School – SOCIAL: Instagram , Tw i t t e r SESSION: New Signs School of Architecture, The University of Queensland
Dr Naomi Stead is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland, where she is also Deputy Director of the Research Centre ATCH (Architecture Theory Criticism History). Her research interests lie broadly within the critical and cultural studies of architecture, including its reception in popular and professional media. Stead is editor of the book Semi-detached: Writing, representation and criticism in architecture (Uro, 2012) and was from 2011–2014 co-editor of Architectural Theory Review. Stead’s publication record includes 16 book chapters, 28 journal articles, 38 conference papers, and 12 industry reports. In addition, she is a widely-published architecture critic, having been commissioned to write more than 50 articles in the Australasian professional architectural media, and is currently a columnist for both The Conversation and Places Journal.
104———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD What do you think of the expression Not In My How do you see the future of the Australian Backyard in Australia today? landscape? I feel equivocal about it – on the one hand it I’m pretty pessimistic, I have to say. The runaway stands for a particular strand of xenophobia: effects of climate change have already started, selfish, obstructionist, nostalgic, failing to see and they’ll get far worse, with all of the human the bigger picture and benefits of densification and environmental disaster that will bring. I feel and diversity in urban design. On the other hand, a very strong sense of grief for the world (and the people sometimes take a NiMBY stance for Australian landscape) as it was, and trepidation absolutely legitimate reasons – standing up to about what’s to come. the vested interests of developers, working to What do you think of Canberra? defend things and places that really need to be It’s unfashionable to say it but I love Canberra! Of defended – think of protests against coal seam course it’s easy for me to say that as a person who gas mining, for example. So while NiMBYism has only ever visited, for short periods, but I love is scorned amongst architects, it’s not always a the cycling, and the weather, and the trees. knee-jerk reaction, it’s not always ill-informed, and What are you working on? its sometimes an important mode of grassroots, I’m working on too many things… all of them citizen resistance and defence of the built and collaborative. A manual for gender equity activism natural environment. in architecture, an edited book about ficto-critical writing practices in architecture, an edited book about oral history as a method in architectural research… plus I’m getting ready to move from Brisbane to Melbourne.
105 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dr Jillian Walliss
Senior Lecturer, University of SESSION: New Techniques Melbourne Ji LL i A n W Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies explores how digital technologies are reshaping design and Landscape making in landscape architecture. While the potentials of digital technologies are well documented within landscape planning and visualisation, its application within design practice is far less understood. This book highlights the role of the digital model in encouraging a new design logic that moves from the privileging of the visual to a focus on processes of formation, bridging the interface of the conceptual and material, the virtual and the physical. ALL iss A n D Heike R AH m nn Architecture Drawing on interviews and projects from a range of international designers, including, Snøhetta, Arup, Gustafson Porter, ASPECT Studios, Grant Associates, Catherine Mosbach, Philippe Rahm, PARKKIM, LAAC and PEG office of landscape + architecture among others, the authors explore the influence of parametric modelling, scripting, real- and Digital time data, simulation, prototyping, fabrication, and Building Information Modelling on the design and construction of contemporary landscapes. This engagement with practice is expanded through critical reflection from academics involved in landscape architecture programs around the world that are reshaping their research and pedagogy to Technologies reflect an expanded digital realm.
Crossing critical theory, technology and contemporary design, the book constructs a picture of an emerging re-conceptualising Design anD making twenty-first century practice of landscape architecture premised on complexity and performance. It also highlights the disciplinary demands and challenges in engaging with a rapidly evolving digital context within practice and JiLLiAn WALLiss AnD Heike RAHmAnn education. The book is of immense value to professionals and researchers, and is a key publication for digital landscape courses at all levels.
Jillian Walliss has over 15 years’ experience as a landscape architecture academic in Australia and New Zealand. She works in the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Melbourne where she teaches landscape theory and design studios. Jillian’s research focuses on the relationship between theory, culture and contemporary design practice. Her most recent work explores the potential of digital technologies to produce a new generation of urban open spaces, which feature the explicit manipulation of climatic phenomena.
Heike RaHmann is a landscape architect at RMIT University and has worked with various practices within the fields of landscape architecture and urban design in Germany, Japan and Australia. Her research explores the intersection of landscape, technology and contemporary urbanism with focus on design practice and theory. Her publications include the co-authored book Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence (Jovis, 2014), which explores notions of vacancy and transformation processes in one of the largest urban areas in the world.
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Dr Jillian Walliss has over 15 years’ experience as a landscape architecture academic in Australia and New Zealand. She works in the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Melbourne where she teaches landscape theory and design studios. In 2016 her book Digital Technologies and Landscape Architecture: re-conceptualising design and making will be published by Routledge. Co-written with Dr Heike Rahmann, the book draws on interviews and projects from a range of international designers and academics to explore the influence of parametric modelling, scripting, real-time data, simulation, prototyping, fabrication and BIM on the design and construction of contemporary landscapes. Her most recent work investigates the potential of digital technologies to produce a new generation of urban open spaces, which feature the explicit manipulation of climatic phenomena. In 2011 Jillian’s innovation in teaching with digital technologies was recognised by the University of Melbourne’s prestigious Edward Brown Award. 106———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD If you were the new minister for Australian our discipline has much to gain from an explicit cities what would be your priority? engagement with climate engineers. The regional cities. There is too much focus on What do you think of Canberra? Australia’s capital cities. Not much. What are you working on? What does the Anthropocene mean to you? I am developing a new book which explores It is a moment which challenges us as landscape the intersection of climate engineering and architects to ramp up our knowledge and landscape architecture. There are a lot of exciting techniques so we can engage with this critical project being constructed internationally plus moment in a meaningful and rigorous manner.
107 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Dr SueAnne Ware FAILA
Head of School Architecture SESSION: New Practices and the Built Environment, University of Newcastle
Professor Ware is Head of School Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She holds a masters degree in landscape architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD from RMIT University, Melbourne. Her most recent books include Sunburnt: Australian Practices of Landscape Architecture, edited with Julian Raxworthy (Sun, 2011) and Taylor Cullity Lethlean: Making Sense of Landscape, edited with Gini Lee (SpaceMaker, 2013). Her research outputs as creative works have been awarded national and international design accolades (SIEV X memorial, the Road as Shrine, The Anti- Memorial to Heroin Overdose Victims). Much of her scholarly and creative practice work centres on socially engaged design processes, citizen co-design, and design activism. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
108———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD What do you think of the expression Not In My Directing long term investment and sustainable Backyard in Australia today? development in regional centres, as major capital It’s alive and well, particularly in regional cities have faired very well over the past 30 years. Australia. We seem to get all the land uses and Work at the scale of watershed catchment regions industries that capital centres are adverse to to deliver green infrastructure and systems rather and very little incentives for alternative more than bribing marginal electorates with shiny new environmentally appropriate solutions. When coal projects. mines are literally in your backyard and post-peak What’s your favorite designed place in oil is not even on the radar, it is truly discouraging. Australia? How do you see the future of the Australian St Kilda Foreshore Promenade by Site Office and landscape? GASP in Hobart (McGregor Coxall). Given the amount of mineral extraction, What do you think of Canberra? inappropriate development, and the incredible It’s a nice place to visit (great museums, the lack of respect for Indigenous notions of country, national arboretum, etc.) but I would not want to I worry deeply. live there (poor suburban greenfield development, If you were the new minister for Australian difficult wayfinding, and tragic weather). cities what would be your priority?
109 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Prof Richard Weller
Professor and Chair of WEB: richardjweller.com SESSION: ‘OMG there’s Landscape Architecture, laplusjournal.com an Anthropocene in my University of Pennsylvania Backyard’ and Gen Z: Student Provocation and Discussion
Garden of Australian Dreams, National Museum of Australia - Richard Weller & Vladimir Sitta.
Richard Weller is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and former Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC). He has received a consistent stream of international design competition awards at all scales of landscape architecture and urban design. Throughout his career he has worked simultaneously as an academic and a consultant specializing in the formative stages of projects ranging from gardens to plazas, memorials, museums, suburbs and waterfronts. His research projects have involved scenario planning for cities, megaregions and nations and his current work concerns the application of United Nations biodiversity targets. He has published four books, over 90 single- authored papers and is the Creative Director of the interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture LA+. A devoted teacher he was honored with an Australian National Teaching Award in 2012 for 110———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD “sustained commitment to inspiring and enabling students to engage creatively and critically with complex design problems”. His leadership activities pertain to leading the landscape architecture at Penn and building the discipline’s capacity through his role on the Board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in Washington.
What do you think of the expression Not In My some really innovative high density developments Backyard in Australia today? and also ecologically retrofit an entire suburb as a It recalls a cultural landscape of relative demonstration project. In a major symbolic move innocence but now everything is in everyone’s I’d offer the faux headland at Barangaroo to the backyard. indigenous community of Redfern, and I’d be very How do you see the future of the Australian tempted to ban any more public art and remove landscape? the words “placemaking”, “vibrant” and “multi- In the bigger scheme of things the continent award winning” from the Macquarie Dictionary. is slowly but surely desertifying. In the short- What does the Anthropocene mean to you? term 50 – 60 million people will scratch a living Confirmation that humanity’s unlimited desire out of its thins soils and deep mines and live in to manipulate its environment is profoundly suburbs transitioning to renewables. Despite the disturbing. increasing volatility of the weather the landscape What’s your favorite designed place in will be managed in a more precise ecological Australia? manner both in cities and beyond but, due to Well, put it this way, I don’t like parks. our inability to either decentralize or positively What do you think of Canberra? increase density, the urban landscape will become I like its surreal quality. more chaotic, dangerous and divisive. On the up Landscape architecture in Australia is turning side, even as they slide in the global livability 50 – what’s to celebrate? indexes, urban tensions will make Australian 50 not out is pretty good, but it’s the next 50 that society more interesting. will really count. If you were the new minister for Australian What are you working on? cities what would be your priority? I’m just completing a three-year project called Not to get re-elected! By which I mean do ‘Atlas for the End of the World ‘– an audit of something visionary like a new city for millions global biodiversity and a call to new generation of refugees – or add them to Canberra! I’d also of planners and designers to leave the salons and attempt to take on the NIMBY’s and force through head to the front lines of the 6th extinction.
111 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Liam Young
Director, Tomorrow’s WEB: Tomorrowsthoughtstoday. SESSION: New Signs Thoughts Today + Unknown com Fields Unknownfieldsdivision. com SOCIAL: Tw i t t e r VIDEO: Vimeo
Liam Young is an Australian born architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms. Building his design fictions from the realities of present Young also co runs the Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic research studio that travels on location shoots and expeditions to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. He has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time Magazine, and Dazed and Confused and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has taught internationally including the 112———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Architectural Association and Princeton University and now runs an MA in Fiction and Entertainment at SciArc. Liam manages his time between exploring distant landscapes and visualising the fictional worlds he extrapolates from them.
What does the Anthropocene mean to you? Canberra as a city, just a large bureaucratic The Anthropocene is a misleading term that institution. puts ourselves at the center of the processes What are you working on? that shape landscape. I would argue that we I make films and tell stories about the are actually in the post Anthropocene, where architectural and urban implications of emerging machines and technology are actually the defining technologies. I have just launch a new Post forces of the planet. Graduate Masters program in Fiction and What do you think of Canberra? Entertainment at Sci Arc in LA that explores I spent the first 25 years of my life in Australia but these strategies. have never visited Canberra. I never understood
The City in the Sea - Liam Young.
113 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 Josh Zeunert
Lecturer, Deakin University WEB: joshuazeunert.com SESSION: New Natures SOCIAL: Tw i t t e r, Linkedin
Joshua Zeunert is a Landscape Architect and Lecturer at Deakin University. He was previously a Lecturer at Writtle School of Design in the UK and the University of Adelaide, and a casual academic at the University of New South Wales and University of South Australia. Josh has worked on a range of significant urban design and landscape architecture in projects in practice, most notably at McGregor Coxall, Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Peter Stutchbury Architecture. He was a co-host and founding member of The Plan (2011), an award-winning weekly radio show in Adelaide. Career achievements include being featured as “Urban Warrior” (Adelaide Magazine 2008), the AILA National Bruce Mackenzie 114———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD Future Leaders Scholarship (2009) and being featured in a portrait exhibition titled Celebrating Innovators at Federal Parliament House in Canberra (2012). He is completing two books, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability (Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (2017).
What do you think of the expression Not In My practices and built environment typologies. Backyard in Australia today? How do you see the future of the Australian In urban areas it’s as relevant as ever due to landscape? the fact that Australia has an incredibly high The “New Natures” panel that I am curating will population growth rate for a developed country, explore this question – I’ll outline my perspective primarily executed through low-density sprawl and tease out other views in this session. Looking and high-rise stacking in existing capital forward to it very much! cities (i.e. we don’t adequately deliver medium If you were the new minister for Australian density, mixed use, walkable communities). We cities what would be your priority? allow multinational and commercially-centric Bringing our culture into balance with the built-environment developers to commandeer environment that sustains us. Cities are the substantial power as parasitic land-speculators most apparent examples of consumptive entities in the tradition of enclosure and bedfellow that require enormous productive territories governments espouse shallow rhetoric as if these of land and seascapes to support them. Sure are our only land development options (see for they are great places of culture, pleasure example baugruppen as an alternative). Such and human activity, but their current makeup forces mean that planning systems are skewed is deeply anthropocentric and not viable in and result in questionable ethics in practice. So perpetuity without substantial productive understandably, NIMBY-ism is prevalent in our re-design. Future-proofing cities beyond glib urban “communities” because the core practices statements, token gestures and greenwashing and big issues are skirted and not open for means getting our water and food systems substantive questioning and debate. sustainable (i.e. not reliant upon finite resources), In contrast, our expansive regional backyard energy systems 100% renewable, rail-based is further “out-there” than ever for urbanites transportation networks for freight and local/ due road congestion and dysfunctional regional interstate/high speed travel, and retrofitting and transportation systems – travelling beyond the further developing walkable, local, mixed-use sprawling urban margins in most Australian communities. All the while factoring fossil- capital cities requires considerable distance to fuel energy descent and reliance to scenarios be covered. In our expansive 7+ million square presented by erratic climatic and natural systems. kilometre backyard, change can be perceived If population growth (and or its fuelling of as a threat rather than a cultural occurrence; the economy) is what the majority of Australian’s conservationists typically want to preserve a want, then we should be delivering medium fallacy – a static perception reminiscent of what density, social infrastructure and environmental the first white settlers encountered (but largely sustainability primarily in regional and/or new minus Aboriginal Australian’s). And agricultural cities. Quality of life and liveability suffer when and grazing practices that take place on over saturation points are passed. 60% of the landmass work in opposition to the Landscape architects currently have limited preservation idyll and are also inappropriate influence in these domains and are reduced or for our soil. Yet these are culturally entrenched willingly produce surface treatments, decoration in regional identity and the economics of food, and naturalised veils. We can achieve much more primary resources and export outputs. than this if we can find a way of developing visions Let’s not forget that NIMBY-ism is often of substance and yielding more influence to paradoxical due to the commonplace expectation deliver on such visions. by the average citizen for continual individual What does the Anthropocene mean to you? wealth and prosperity without change taking place To quote James Lovelock, “If there were a billion that affects self. people living on the planet, we could do whatever These are just some of the big-picture we please. But there are [over] seven billion. NIMBY-ism’s today relevant for us to be At this scale, life as we know it today is not questioning for a better tomorrow. Australia is a sustainable.” I typically don’t agree with Lovelock wonderful country but there are deeply engrained beyond his quote, but his statement is indicative practices that need to evolve to transition to of the fact that there are so many humans living so realising more sophisticated land management intensively (and increasingly so) on the Earth that 115 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 we’ve created our own geological epoch. What’s Does it talk to the soul? I don’t know. I think it just as alarming is global and local neoliberal appeals to our intellect and in that sense it is economic and political systems are solidifying fascinating. Its grand geometry is pleasing but this predicament with perpetual economic growth also telling of centralised control and order – to based on exploiting finite resource bases that be expected in a capital city – yet this sparks ultimately benefits corporate minorities. In Orwellian rebelliousness in me. It orchestrates generational terms, this model cannot continue views beautifully and has hidden the ubiquitous indefinitely. There are so many quotes from urban clutter (billboards, powerlines), however so many notable people alerting us to this yet the scale of experience is oriented to flowing unfortunately, little seems to be changing. The private motor vehicles and it is harder to perceive inherent optimism of design geared for solution- and experience at a human scale (as a pedestrian oriented and lateral thinking processes means or cyclist). I’ve never lived there so I only get a that landscape architects are well placed to visitor’s impression. Its lawn and European-ness be useful for the increasing challenges the should be further superseded to deserve its Anthropocene epoch heralds…if we can survive “bush capital” title, even though it’s an accurate and grow as a profession. The “get big or get out reflection of predominantly British roots that we mantra” now fully integrated into universities is can’t seem to evolve from. It has huge potential to a constant threat to the viability of LA programs be a wonderful city if intelligently retrofitted and worldwide to be able to produce critical and if Australian’s can evolve from their entrenched independent thinking graduates and grow the obsession with the private car and detached profession. housing. What’s your favourite designed place in Landscape architecture in Australia is turning Australia? 50 – what’s to celebrate? Probably the Former BP Park in Waverton, Sydney, Firstly I’d like to pay my respects to pioneers by McGregor Coxall. I must have been hundreds and practitioners here in the last 50+ years who of times and I never get sick of it. Its story of established the profession and a legacy of work polluted site come habitat and public parkland is and discourse in practice, AILA, government and a powerful landscape narrative. The adjacent Coal universities. We are a small profession, much Loader Centre for Sustainability is great and Balls too small in this day and age, yet we have a good Head (and Sawmillers Reserve) in proximity make foundation to provide so many useful services to for a wonderful peninsula. a planet and global culture that can meaningfully What do you think of Canberra? benefit from landscape architect’s ability to I sometimes ask students about their favourite contribute solutions to important challenges, cities/places and whether they are planned or executed in a meaningful way and at a human un-planned, designed or un-designed. More scale. often than not it seems that un-planned and What are you working on? un-designed places win-out. I think that’s telling I’ve just finished one book (Landscape Architecture of the fact that 20th century planning and design and Environmental Sustainability: Creating Positive have failed to place people as the central focus Change through Design – out in January 2017). I’m (yet alone the environment). Accordingly they can also finishing an edited book on Landscape and lack mystery, intrigue and wonder…a cookie-cutter Food out later in 2017. I’m finishing my PhD (by sterility oriented for the individual (isolating Publication) soon, and I’m keen to increase the spatial arrangements of detached housing and slim number of public domain consultancies I’ve private motor vehicles). Most 20th century cities worked on in the past 5 years being consumed are devoid of truly civic and social places (such in research, writing and living overseas. Then as walkable streets, squares, marketplaces, parks there’s the constant whirr of a trimester teaching etc). Canberra provides a case study of a large- system at Deakin. And trying to stay fit, healthy scale vision that has actually come to fruition, but and mentally sane while growing as much food as it is guilty of many of the aforementioned traits. I can in a small space!
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As a design-focused standard, tailored or a wholly manufacturer, Street custom-built product is Furniture Australia is required, Street Furniture dedicated to improving the Australia provides a range public realm with innovative of solutions for landscape and timeless products. architects, and is delighted Since 1986, the company to be sponsoring the 2016 has furnished more than International Festival of 25,000 projects in Australia Landscape Architecture. and abroad. Whether a
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Intergrain Timber Finishes are researched, developed are designed to protect the and tested to perform in natural beauty of timber while all Australian conditions. giving long lasting durable Intergrain UltraDeck, protection, making Intergrain NaturalStain and UltraClear coatings ideal for the are water based exterior demands of Architects and timber finishes that increase Landscape Architects. Being the lifespan of exterior environmentally responsible timber by protecting against and highly durable, Intergrain degradation caused by coatings are widely exposure to weather, lasting specified for commercial and up to 3 times longer than residential timber projects. traditional solvent based Intergrain coatings timber coatings.
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Jardine Lloyd Thompson faced by your industry, and (JLT) has continually allows us to deliver a quality demonstrated success in insurance offering at a designing leading insurance competitive price. and risk solutions to serve a We are proud to give variety of industries. back to the industry, as a JLT has worked in supporter of AILA and the partnership with AILA International Festival of for more than a decade. Landscape Architecture in Our experience means we Canberra. understand the challenges
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WE-EF is a global environmentally sustainable manufacturer of exterior way. From street and area lighting equipment of luminaires to projectors outstanding optical quality and inground uplights, and sound mechanical WE-EF offers a complete engineering. spectrum of lighting solutions Founded in Germany for demanding outdoor in 1950, WE-EF continually environments. invests in the research and In Australia and New development of in-house Zealand WE-EF started its designed and engineered operation with just three optical, mechanical and employees in Victoria in 1994, LED technologies and growing to 30 employees over applies these technologies the next twenty years. in an economical and
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Growing and producing new operation, leading advanced and improved cultivars for tree and container nurseries almost a century, Fleming’s all growing superior is Australia’s premier tree ornamentals, fruit and native supplier. plants. Owned and run by the Fleming’s specialist Fleming family and with its Urban Tree Division caters to fourth generation learning the planning and landscaping the skills of production from industry with design, advice the ground up… Fleming’s is and landscape expertise; dedicated to ‘quality, heritage while ‘Habittude’ specialises and innovation’. in the supply, installation and Today Fleming’s is a maintenance of landscapes diverse company comprising into streetscapes, parklands Australia’s largest bareroot and new communities.
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16 Academy Award winners casual creators. Whether for Best Visual Effects—use it’s a kid looking to build a Autodesk software to design, new contraption, a seasoned visualize, and simulate their pro sketching out a great ideas before they’re ever built new idea, or someone who or created. From blockbuster just wants to amp up their visual effects and buildings creative output, we’re taking that create their own energy to technology originally built for electric cars and the batteries movie studios, automakers, that power them, the work of and architectural firms, and our 3D software customers is making it available to anyone Autodesk, Inc., is a leader everywhere you look. who wants to create and share in 3D design, engineering Through our apps for their ideas with the world. and entertainment software. iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Since its introduction Customers across the Android, we’re also making of AutoCAD software in manufacturing, architecture, design technology accessible 1982, Autodesk continues to building, construction, and to professional designers as develop the broadest portfolio media and entertainment well as amateur designers, of state-of-the- art 3D industries—including the last homeowners, students, and software for global markets.
FESTIVAL PARTNER University of Canberra canberra.edu.au/ about-uc/faculties/arts-design
The University of Canberra and developing landscapes has delivered a landscape from specific purpose site architecture program in designs through urban parks Canberra since 1974. to regional settings. The landscape Our program engages architecture program, part students with the landscape of the Faculty of Arts and in and through interrogating Design is an undergraduate the cultural and symbolic honours degree that significance of landscapes to immerses students in the urban, regional, remote and complex issues of managing Indigenous communities.
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Located on the shores of A special feature within beautiful Lake Burley Griffin the Museum is The Garden in Canberra, the National Mu- of Australian Dreams. seum’s stunning architecture The garden is a symbolic offers visitors an extraordinary landscape – large sculptural place to explore the rich and forms within a body of water, diverse stories of Australia’s a little grass and a few trees land, nation and people. and provides an opportunity From the historically for visitors to stop and relax. significant to the intriguing, the The design is based on a Museum’s collection consists slice of central Australia, take of more than 200,000 objects. It one step and you travel the includes the heart of legendary equivalent of 100 kilometres Australian racehorse Phar across the real landmass of Lap, fascinating large objects the country. such as a remarkable saw The National Museum of doctor’s wagon, and the Australia is proud to support world’s largest collection of the 2016 International Festival Aboriginal bark paintings. of Landscape Architecture.
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A special thank you to the many AILA members and community volunteers who contributed to Australia’s largest gathering of landscape architects, the 2016 international Festival of Landscape Architecture. 123 PROGRAM #NIMBY2016 124———–NOT IN MY BACKYARD