Kongjian Yu will Give a Speech As Opening Speaker at the AILA 2013 National Conference
REFORM reflects the urgency of actions required by all built environment design professions in addressing the present and pending environmental, economic, cultural and social issues confronting our cities, towns, regional and rural places.
Why are you coming to this conference?
The 2013 REFORM agenda for the AILA conference builds on former national conference themes, notably Transform (2011 Brisbane). The conference will be a conversation 'beyond transformation' – to actively advocate 'reform' and to set The REFORM Agenda.
And it is also about building trust and belief in ourselves as a Landscape Architectural community for the future as we 'reform' our Institute.
It is time to recognise that we are not only transforming our landscapes, but that a key to our survival – the health of our landscapes – is one of the singular impacts that Landscape Architects and our allied professions can make. Cities are being revolutionised. Irrespective of political 'ebbs and flows', we are at a nexus where we can actually engage with and influence government policy, strategy and legislation.
It is our responsibility to engage and influence – we are a leading, collaborative discipline able to integrate the planning, design and management of our cultural, economic and spatial environments.
At REFORM 2013 we will consider questions about 'reform' such as:
A 'call-to-arms' for landscape architects to become 'stronger and sterner' in public and private practice to achieve a real and better future for our communities
How to engage younger Australian landscape architects who are a positive and highly articulate group and have a 'fire in the belly' to move forward
How to bring about a genuinely purposeful partnership between state and citizens in the pursuit of common goals
The ever-evolving design philosophy for working with remote indigenous communities
How landscape architects are change agents at the highest level.
The REFORM themes are:
Reform the environment – how are we remodelling ourselves, our practices and our legislation to befriend the environments that shape us and always have and always will?
Reform our cities – how are we re-educating ourselves to fully comprehend how to live in cities and how to cultivate the green and the social infrastructure vital to urban existence?
Reform our regional areas – how are we helping our settlements to resist the drift to a world of cities irrelevant to their hinterland, tradition and founding spirit?
Reform our future – how diligently and successfully have we re-armed and reinforced with strategies and knowledge that meet our obligations to landscape?
Reform AILA – what resolution must members take from this conference - reform, revolution or renaissance founded on learning?
See you in Sydney in August!!
From the conference collaboration team: Neil Hobbs, James Grant, Rob Cooper, Jenny Rayment, David Martin, Barbara Schaffer and Jane Irwin.
REFORM Program
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Thursday, 22nd August 2013
8.00 am Registration Opens (priority for Site Tour participants)
Site tours
8.20 am Tour 1
Healthy parks, active play, connected communities
Blaxland Riverside Park (Sydney Olympic Park), Lizard Log Park and Plough and Harrow (Western Sydney Parklands)
8.30 am Tour 2
City by bike – a tour of recent City of Sydney public domain projects
Modified from original ‘East and West side’ tours due to numbers
9.00 am Tour 3
Let’s go out and play – Sydney playgrounds
Taronga Zoo Backyard to Bush Playground, Yamble Reserve (Ryde City Council) and Gazzard Park, Yagoona (Bankstown City Council)
9.30 am Tour 4
The Ponds Parkland
Sustainable development by Landcom and Australand along Second Ponds Creek, Blacktown
Site tours - more details
Meeting Local Challenges Forums
11.00 am
Reform the Environment
Western Sydney as a principal focus for future growth through landscape infrastructure and links to identity.
Introduction by Session Chair: Barbara Schaffer, Principal Landscape Architect, Government Architect's Office
11.10 am Speaker: Craig Butler, Assistant GM Penrith Council, 'Campement Urbaine in Penrith and revitalising a regional centre'
11.30 am Speaker: Kati Westlake, Urban Designer Parramatta Council, 'Parramatta'
12.00 pm Chaired response and discussion
12.15 pm Lunch break (at local cafés, own expense)
1.30 pm
Reform our Cultural Landscapes
High performance landscapes and essential biodiversity - 'Audley Weir and Dance Hall, Royal National Park'.
Introduction by Session Chair: Jane Irwin, Former AILA NSW President, Principal JILA
1.40 pm Speaker: Julie Marler, Principal Phillips Marler
2.10 pm Speaker: Oriana Senese, NPWS
2.40 pm Chaired response and discussion
2.55 pm Break
3.20 pm Reform our Strategy
Landscape Architects as 'leaders and seeders' for the public domain in Sydney and other major cities.
Introduction by Session Chair: David Martin, Sydney Olympic Park Authority
3.30 pm Speaker: Vanessa Trowell, Advocacy Manager 'Capacity building and collaboration in national-state level advocacy: a cross-disciplinary approach'
4.00 pm Speaker: Ben Peacock, Republic of Everyone, 'The 202020 Vision'
4.30 pm Speaker: Danielle Pieranunzi, Director Sustainable SITES™ Inititiative
4.45 pm Chaired response and discussion
5.45 pm Doors open for evening sessions
Grand Opening
6.00 pm Welcome to Sydney
Robert Cooper – Conference Convenor,
AILA National President (Neil Hobbs), AILA NSW President (James Grant)
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands from across New South Wales and pay our respects to the leaders both past, present and future for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Indigenous people across the state.
6.15 pm Opening speaker: Kongjian Yu
Professor and Dean, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University
7.30 pm - 9.30pm Conference Welcome Cocktails in the Banquet Hall
Friday, 23rd August
8.00 am Registration/ Doors Open
8.30 am Opening Welcome: Robert Cooper – Conference Director
8.40 am Welcome: Platinum Sponsor - Lappset, Harri Makela
8.45 am Welcome to Sydney
Session One - REFORM the environment
How are we remodelling ourselves, our practices and our legislation to befriend the environments that shape us and always have and always will?
8.55 am 'Setting the scene' by session Chair, Robert Cooper
9.00 am Key speaker: Professor Lesley Hughes, Macquarie University
The Climate Change Challenge for Australian Landscapes
9.45 am Response and discussion
10.00 am Key speaker: Wendy Davies, AECOM
More than skin deep - Valuing and protecting landscapes in a demanding world
10.45 am Response and discussion
11.00 am Morning tea
Session Two - REFORM the environment
11.30 am Key speaker: Dr Darryl Low Choy and Dr David Jones
The 'country' within: the challenges for landscape architecture legitimatise its residency on terra nullius
12.15 pm Response and discussion
12.30 pm Lunch
Session Three - REFORM our cities
How are we re-educating ourselves to fully comprehend how to live in cities and how to cultivate the green and the social infrastructure vital to urban existence?
1.30 pm 'Setting the scene' by session Chair, Robert Cooper
1.40 pm Key speaker: Danielle Pieranunzi
Director, Sustainable Sites Initiative™
2.25 pm Key speaker: Catherine Neilson
Sustainable Sites Australia Project
AILA National Project Manager
3.10 pm Response and discussion
3.40 pm Afternoon tea
Session Four - REFORM our cities
4.00pm Details TBC
4.45pm Response and discussion
Conference Dinner - REFORM Sydney
5.30 pm Doors to Banquet Hall open
6.00 pm
Conference Dinner and Panel Discussion
The aim of the Panel discussion is to have a robust and entertaining, facilitated forum addressing, for e.g., 'macro urban landscape challenges and localised design solutions through various lenses of different professions and authorities' (quote from Damian Tang's abstract) in a city tha's 'playing catch up'.
Saturday 24th August
8.15 am
Doors Open
8.35 am Opening Remarks and summary of debates so far: Robert Cooper
Session Five - REFORM our cities
8.45 am Key speaker: Claudia Taborda
Landscape Architect, Lisbon/QUT
9.30 am Response and discussion
9.45 am
Key speaker: Damian Tang, Assistant Director / Design at National Parks Board, President of Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects.
Re-order - Alter mindsets, influence behaviour, then speak landscapes
10.30 am Response and discussion
10.45 am Morning tea
Session Six - REFORM our regional areas
How are we helping our settlements to resist the drift to a world of cities irrelevant to their hinterland, tradition and founding spirit?
11.15 am Key speaker: John Mongard, Landscape Architect (Brisbane)
Dis Location: survival of the local
12.00 pm Response and discussion
12.30 pm Lunch
Session Seven - REFORM our environment
1.30 pm Key speaker: Guy Barnett
Research Scientist, CSIRO
2.15 pm Key speaker: Jane Wolff, Associate Professor
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto (Canada)
Agency, Advocacy, Vocabulary: Three landscape projects
3.00 pm Response and discussion
3.15 pm Afternoon tea
Session Eight - REFORM our future
How effectively have we re-armed ourselves with knowledge and strategies to meet our obligations and enable a Renaissance founded on learning?
3.30 pm This will be a robust panel discussion and Q&A session that aims to challenge us about issues such as:
What is the springboard to empower AILA to be a stronghold and politically effective mechanism to mandate Green Infrastructure in Australia?
How do we structure ourselves to achieve this survival ambition?
What are the facilitation mechanisms, enablers and the atmosphere of landscape architecture in a cross-sectoral, cross-disciplinary sense that make us relevant in this?
How do we harness the people power and landscape to move things forwards as rapidly and effectively as possible?
5.00 pm Final closing remarks and comments: Robert Cooper
6.00 pm - late AILA FRESH NSW: Trivia in the pub
A footnote to the program
The aim of the response sessions is to really encourage dialogue between the podium and the floor – a critical forum for debate.
The Disclaimer
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