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 MAJOR CORPORATE PARTNERS SUPPORTING CORPORATE PARTNERS EVENT PARTNERS MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF PARTNER PARTNER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS aila.org.au/notinmybackyard 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. 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.