Kongjian Yu will give the keynote speech at the “International Urban Design Conference”
2007-07-29
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Conference Name:“International Urban Design Conference”
Conference Theme: “Waves of Change – Cities at Crossroads”
Time：6,7 & 8 September, 2007
Address: Gold Coast, Australia
Background: Population growth and economic prosperity have consequences on the environment and on the longer term social well-being of our communities.
The wave of environmental challenges will affect communities through global warming and likely sea level rises. The ability of urban centres world-wide to cope with the impacts of high level fuel costs will also be examined. The physical separation of home from work and recreation may need to be re-addressed in city design.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City, a design practice devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city.
He is involved in the planning and design for a highly sustainable 5000 unit community in Penang, Malaysia. He is the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York.
From 1993 to 2000 he was Professor of Urbanism and Director of the Institute of Urbanism at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Previously, he has been professor at numerous schools of architecture including Cooper Union, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Nebraska, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Minnesota. He lectures widely and is the author of many articles in a wide range of both professional and general publications and is currently contributing editor at Architectural Record and Metropolis.
Prof Ian Bentley has a background in architecture and property development. In 1972, he helped to found the Joint Centre for Urban Design, at what is now Oxford Brookes University, where he is Emeritus Professor of Urban Design.
He was lead author of “Responsive Environments” (1985, since widely reprinted and translated), and has more recently authored “Urban Transformations” (1999) and with Georgia Butina Watson, “Identify by Design” (2007). He has acted as external examiner across a range of postgraduate courses in urban design, urban regeneration, cultural studies and public art, and has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences in the UK and internationally.
He is founding member of the consultancy Place-ID, and is a director of the multi-award winning Angell Town Community Project, South London.
Prof Elaine Gallagher is currently the Director of the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria, Canada. She has an internationally established track record in relation to research on falls and fall-related injury prevention among the elderly.
A Full Professor in the School of Nursing, she holds adjunct appointments at the University of Victoria Centre on Ageing and the Gerontology Program at Simon Fraser University.
The Canadian Association of Nurse Researchers named her “Researcher of the Year” in 2002
Jan Gehl is Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He is also the founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants.
His research on public spaces and public life began in Copenhagen, but was quickly applied to many other cities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. His ideas and approach to the design of public spaces incorporate cutting edge technology without losing sight of what best supports and enhances people’s experience of everyday life in the public realm.
Mayor Jeremy Harris served for more than ten years as the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, the 12th largest city in the United States. He retired from politics in January 2005. Prior to becoming Mayor, he was Honolulu’s longest serving Managing Director, a position he held for nine years.
Mayor Harris is currently a senior visiting faculty member in energy and environment at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and an advisor on sustainability to the National Academy of Science in Washington D.C.
Prof Kongjian Yu is founder and Dean of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Peking University, and the founder and President of Turenscape, an internationally award winning firm with more than 200 professionals and one of the first private landscape architecture firms in China.
He has published more than 150 papers and 15 books, and has been honoured with three awards by the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Michael Norton OBE is a speaker, social innovator and author of "365 Ways to Change the World". He is a man intent on changing the world - and enlisting others to do so on a daily basis. His infectious enthusiasm and ingenious approach to social innovation is both practical and influential.
A merchant banker turned social activist, Michael Norton has devoted the past 30 years to running voluntary organisations, picking up an OBE on the way for services to charity. He wears his social conscience lightly and is determined to put the fun back into doing the right thing, showing how the smallest actions can have an impact on a local community as well as the wider world.
Alec Tzannes is the President of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and founding Director of Tzannes Associates, a firm that has received over 30 awards for architecture and urban design in Australia.
Underpinning the work of the Tzannes studio is a commitment to the design of the public environment. On a more poetic level, the Tzannes studio explores architecture that engages with concepts about time, place, materials, space and light. Sustainable energy propositions are integrated within every phase of the design process.
In his practice, his public and private design objectives form the basis of design concepts to ensure new work is of lasting cultural value.
Ms Ruth Durack has had 20 years of experience as an urban design consultant, government planner and part-time academic, Ruth is a staunch advocate of a non-profit, collaborative approach to achieving urban design excellence.
Ruth is a a former Director of Kent State University’s Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio. Before moving to Ohio, she spent over 15 years in urban design practice with Wallace Roberts & Todd, in the Philadelphia and San Francisco offices; and 2 years with the Planning Department of the City of Philadelphia as the Project Director for conversion of the Philadelphia Naval Base.
In Philadelphia, she taught urban design studios and seminars as an adjunct faculty member at Drexel, Temple and the University of Pennsylvaniaand. She is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, has Masters degrees in Architecture and Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Berkeley, and is a Loeb Fellow of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
Richard Neville is Australia’s most controversial Futurist. He has been a practising futurist since 1963, when he launched a magazine that widened the boundaries of free speech on two continents.
His aim is always the same: to stimulate, alert and inform people about the rapid approach of the future. What are the patterns behind the blur? What are the driving forces of change? How will our lives be affected? Richard looks at work, learning, lifestyle, cities, high tech, the new economics, weather, the seven deadly threats facing the world, and more.
As well as dealing with the perils and promise of what lies ahead, Richard offers his audience a range of take-away tools for decoding the future.
Conference Theme: “Waves of Change – Cities at Crossroads”
Time：6,7 & 8 September, 2007
Address: Gold Coast, Australia
Background: Population growth and economic prosperity have consequences on the environment and on the longer term social well-being of our communities.
The wave of environmental challenges will affect communities through global warming and likely sea level rises. The ability of urban centres world-wide to cope with the impacts of high level fuel costs will also be examined. The physical separation of home from work and recreation may need to be re-addressed in city design.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City, a design practice devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city.
He is involved in the planning and design for a highly sustainable 5000 unit community in Penang, Malaysia. He is the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York.
From 1993 to 2000 he was Professor of Urbanism and Director of the Institute of Urbanism at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Previously, he has been professor at numerous schools of architecture including Cooper Union, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Nebraska, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Minnesota. He lectures widely and is the author of many articles in a wide range of both professional and general publications and is currently contributing editor at Architectural Record and Metropolis.
Prof Ian Bentley has a background in architecture and property development. In 1972, he helped to found the Joint Centre for Urban Design, at what is now Oxford Brookes University, where he is Emeritus Professor of Urban Design.
He was lead author of “Responsive Environments” (1985, since widely reprinted and translated), and has more recently authored “Urban Transformations” (1999) and with Georgia Butina Watson, “Identify by Design” (2007). He has acted as external examiner across a range of postgraduate courses in urban design, urban regeneration, cultural studies and public art, and has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences in the UK and internationally.
He is founding member of the consultancy Place-ID, and is a director of the multi-award winning Angell Town Community Project, South London.
Prof Elaine Gallagher is currently the Director of the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria, Canada. She has an internationally established track record in relation to research on falls and fall-related injury prevention among the elderly.
A Full Professor in the School of Nursing, she holds adjunct appointments at the University of Victoria Centre on Ageing and the Gerontology Program at Simon Fraser University.
The Canadian Association of Nurse Researchers named her “Researcher of the Year” in 2002
Jan Gehl is Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He is also the founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants.
His research on public spaces and public life began in Copenhagen, but was quickly applied to many other cities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. His ideas and approach to the design of public spaces incorporate cutting edge technology without losing sight of what best supports and enhances people’s experience of everyday life in the public realm.
Mayor Jeremy Harris served for more than ten years as the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, the 12th largest city in the United States. He retired from politics in January 2005. Prior to becoming Mayor, he was Honolulu’s longest serving Managing Director, a position he held for nine years.
Mayor Harris is currently a senior visiting faculty member in energy and environment at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and an advisor on sustainability to the National Academy of Science in Washington D.C.
Prof Kongjian Yu is founder and Dean of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Peking University, and the founder and President of Turenscape, an internationally award winning firm with more than 200 professionals and one of the first private landscape architecture firms in China.
He has published more than 150 papers and 15 books, and has been honoured with three awards by the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Michael Norton OBE is a speaker, social innovator and author of "365 Ways to Change the World". He is a man intent on changing the world - and enlisting others to do so on a daily basis. His infectious enthusiasm and ingenious approach to social innovation is both practical and influential.
A merchant banker turned social activist, Michael Norton has devoted the past 30 years to running voluntary organisations, picking up an OBE on the way for services to charity. He wears his social conscience lightly and is determined to put the fun back into doing the right thing, showing how the smallest actions can have an impact on a local community as well as the wider world.
Alec Tzannes is the President of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and founding Director of Tzannes Associates, a firm that has received over 30 awards for architecture and urban design in Australia.
Underpinning the work of the Tzannes studio is a commitment to the design of the public environment. On a more poetic level, the Tzannes studio explores architecture that engages with concepts about time, place, materials, space and light. Sustainable energy propositions are integrated within every phase of the design process.
In his practice, his public and private design objectives form the basis of design concepts to ensure new work is of lasting cultural value.
Ms Ruth Durack has had 20 years of experience as an urban design consultant, government planner and part-time academic, Ruth is a staunch advocate of a non-profit, collaborative approach to achieving urban design excellence.
Ruth is a a former Director of Kent State University’s Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio. Before moving to Ohio, she spent over 15 years in urban design practice with Wallace Roberts & Todd, in the Philadelphia and San Francisco offices; and 2 years with the Planning Department of the City of Philadelphia as the Project Director for conversion of the Philadelphia Naval Base.
In Philadelphia, she taught urban design studios and seminars as an adjunct faculty member at Drexel, Temple and the University of Pennsylvaniaand. She is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, has Masters degrees in Architecture and Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Berkeley, and is a Loeb Fellow of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
Richard Neville is Australia’s most controversial Futurist. He has been a practising futurist since 1963, when he launched a magazine that widened the boundaries of free speech on two continents.
His aim is always the same: to stimulate, alert and inform people about the rapid approach of the future. What are the patterns behind the blur? What are the driving forces of change? How will our lives be affected? Richard looks at work, learning, lifestyle, cities, high tech, the new economics, weather, the seven deadly threats facing the world, and more.
As well as dealing with the perils and promise of what lies ahead, Richard offers his audience a range of take-away tools for decoding the future.
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