Speakers
Professor of Architecture
School of Design
Queensland University of Technology
Dr Janis Birkeland joined QUT as Professor of Architecture in 2007, where she has introduced a Minor in Sustainability. She teaches units in green building, eco-retrofitting, greenhouse solutions and eco-innovation, as well as design studio. Before coming to Australia, she worked consecutively as an artist, advocacy planner, architect, urban designer, city planner and attorney in San Francisco. Upon moving to Tasmania in 1981, she wrote a PhD on Planning for Sustainability.
She began teaching architecture at the University of Tasmania and then taught at the University of Canberra from 1994 to 2003. She has developed and taught a number of professional development courses in Sustainable Systems. More recently, she was a visiting fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU while working as a consultant in sustainable development. She also served as Senior Environmental Education Officer for Environment Australia.
She has written around 100 publications in the area of the built environment and/or sustainability including Design for Sustainability (2002), a widely used text. Her new book, Positive Development: from Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles (2008) critiques best practice environmental planning, management and design. It suggests new approaches and strategies for converting development itself into a sustainability solution.
Principal
Bligh Graham Architects
Born in 1965, Chris Bligh graduated from the University of Queensland Bachelor of Architecture programme in 1990. After working for a number of distinguished firms, including Lindsay Clare Architects and Cox Rayner, Chris left for Vancouver, Canada to complete a Masters Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Chris joined the eminent national firm Bligh Voller Nield upon completing the Masters in 1997 as the third generation of Bligh’s. He started Bligh Graham Architects with his partner Sonia Graham in 2002. Since then the firm has undertaken a range of residential projects and more recently an art gallery and visitors centre.
Bligh Graham’s work is not driven by current design fashion but by the pursuit of ‘An Architecture of Gathering’ – that is an architecture that creates or reinforces relationships and associations between buildings and their sites, between people and nature, and between the past and present. This concern has led to buildings which while functional and of their time, have a warmth, richness and simplicity that enrich people’s everyday lives. Climatically responsive environmentally sustainable design is central to Bligh Graham’s work.
Bligh Graham Architects have been the recipients of numerous awards, most recently the Robin Dods Award for residential architecture and an Interior award in the Australian Institute of Architects 2008 awards program.
Director
Bud Brannigan Architects
Bud Brannigan is the director of Bud Brannigan Architects, an experienced and creative Brisbane design practice with projects in Brisbane, and regional areas in Queensland and New South Wales.
The studio comprises a number of design professionals providing comprehensive design and management services in architecture, urban design, and interior architecture.
He graduated from The University of Queensland in 1985, has taught full-time in architecture schools in both Hobart and Brisbane, and began private practice in 1993.
The practice has been honoured with specialist industry sector awards, together with numerous awards from the Australian Institute of Architects, receiving the prestigious national Robin Boyd Award for residential architecture, in 1994. In 2007, Bud Brannigan also received a Churchill Fellowship to study regional museums in southwestern USA.
His work is widely published in Australia and overseas, and has been exhibited in Melbourne, Milan, Barcelona, Montreux, Paris, Venice and London. He has also been invited to lecture throughout the country, as well as in New York, at Columbia University, City University of New York, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Centre in Virginia.
Collaborations with other design practices and artists have been an important part of a collective spirit.
Project work ranges from residential, to university buildings and landscape structures, to museums and galleries. In all projects, a commitment to contextual, environmental and social sensitivity, and sustainability, is at the core of professional responsibilities.
Queensland University of Technology
Laurie Buys holds a PhD in Human Rehabilitation and a Graduate Diploma in Gerontology from the University of Northern Colorado.
She is an Associate Professor in the School of Design, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering at Queensland University of Technology.
Laurie is an experienced social science researcher and research manager. She is the chief investigator on several significant research projects and has successfully collaborated with scientists from various disciplinary backgrounds on complex research initiatives. She has successfully secured approximately $2M in external competitive research funding and $1.1M of internal funding She has over 50 refereed publications covering her research interests which include active ageing, ageing and intellectual disability, social sustainability, green buildings, high density living and community engagement.
Laurie is National President of the peak professional body, the Australian Association of Gerontology. She is member, and past president, of the Board of Management of Queensland Aged and Disability Advocacy. In addition she is a Board Member of the Centre for Subtropical Design.
Chief Executive Officer
Brisbane Housing Company
David Cant is the Chief Executive Officer of the Brisbane Housing Company a not for profit public company that provides affordable housing in Brisbane.
Prior to commencing this position in 2002, David led the team that took the Brisbane Housing Company proposal from initial feasibility to incorporation.
David came to Queensland in 2000 after a career in the housing association sector in the UK of over 20 years. His position just prior to coming to Queensland was as Chief Executive Officer of the New Islington and Hackney Housing Association an organisation with over 6000 homes and 250 staff.
David has a degree from Oxford University in economics and politics and a Masters degree in town planning from University College London.
President - Green Roofs Australia Inc
Principle – Green Canopy Design
Having studied Science, Coastal Management, then Arts with a Double Architecture /Town Planning Major, a love of the outdoors, plants and the environment Sidonie extended her studies to a Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture and Cert Urban Horticulture. She has run her own business for the past 14 years.
A concern for environmental issues and the impact they are having on the future of Australian cities, specifically the issue of water management, and energy led to an interest in green roofs and living walls, their design and environmental benefits.
Sidonie was awarded an ISSI (international Specialised Skills Institute) Pratt Foundation, Fellowship in 2006, to study the design, implementation & benefits of green roofs and living walls.
She is currently President of Green Roofs Australia Inc. and involved in the writing of education programs, policy and legislation development & promotion of the environmental benefits, while providing effective strategies for the design & implementation of green roofs and living walls in Australian cities.
She is the principle designer for her own Landscape Design Company – Green Canopy.
EnviroDevelopment - Business Development Manager
UDIA (Qld)
Kirsty Chessher is the Business Development Manager for EnviroDevelopment at UDIA (Qld). Since joining UDIA (Qld) in January 2006, Kirsty’s role has included coordinating the set-up and ongoing growth of EnviroDevelopment, which aims to encourage, reward and inspire greater sustainability in developments.
Her responsibilities include reviewing EnviroDevelopment applications and providing recommendations to the Board of Management, consultation with various stakeholders and review of the EnviroDevelopment technical standards.
Kirsty holds a Bachelor of Environmental Management, specializing in Sustainable Development, with first class honours from the University of Queensland. Kirsty has most recently worked for a range of environmental consultancies and also worked at the Port of Brisbane conducting environmental monitoring procedures.
Director
PLACE Design Group Pty Ltd
Alex is a qualified and experienced urban designer and architect. Alex developed his extensive range of built environment design skills over more than 27 years of professional design practice and has been awarded nationally and internationally.
After traveling the world extensively and having worked in various countries, his international design appreciation and professional self actualization ensures that the highest quality state of the art design solutions are delivered.
Gillian has lectured and taught Art and Design in high schools and colleges from 1970-2007. Recently retired from the post of Director of the Decorative Arts Minor Programme in SCAD, USA. and Professor of Design History in the School of Architecture and Interior Design, she is now a sessional academic in QUT Brisbane, to where she retired last year. Research for her doctorate was in the area of ‘Gender Design and Modernism’ looking at the work of early twentieth century women designers.
Most of her published conference papers from Europe America and Australia address the discourse of cultural identity, space, place and gender issues within the main narrative of Modernism in Architecture. A fascination with residential modernism in Australia has been at the forefront of her visual experience firstly in the North Shores of Sydney and more recently on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
Managing Principal
EDAW
Malcolm Eadie is a Principal of EDAW’s Ecological Engineering area of practice in Brisbane. His interest lies in promoting collaboration between the disciplines of urban design and physical sciences to deliver enduring and
engaging urban cities and spaces, using concepts of biomimicry to minimise ecological footprint.
Malcolm has particular expertise in integrated urban stormwater management and rural water resource planning. He has been responsible for the project management of multi-disciplinary project teams and the
engineering planning and design of numerous ecologically sustainable water resource management systems.
Through design, Malcolm aspires to secure freshwater supplies for human and environmental use and protect aquatic ecosystem health. He believes diligent management of the earth’s limited freshwater resources must be
paramount in the minds and actions of government agencies worldwide.
Malcolm was Managing Director of Ecological Engineering before the firm joined with EDAW in July 2007.
Research Scholar
CRC Construction Innovation
Judy has been a practicing architect in both Commonwealth and Local government over the past 20 years, dealing with innovation including the adoption of 3D CADD tools in the early 1990’s to embedding triple bottom line outcomes in the delivery of urban projects in more recent times (Brisbane City Council – 2002-2005). Judy has also maintained involvement with academic institutions throughout her career as both a part-time tutor and lecturer at the Universities of Queensland and Canberra, and a Director of the building and construction program at Central Queensland University for three years from 2000; and as a part-time Research Associate at Griffith University from 2000-2001. Additionally Judy has worked with the community to deliver better environmental outcomes and was a founding member of the Gladstone Regional Sustainability Group and an active industry participant in the Gladstone State High School Sustainability project in 2000-2002.
Judy is currently completing a PhD within the CRC Construction Innovation at QUT. This research is developing a value mapping framework which enables corporate objectives and values to be tracked throughout the life span of the delivery of major economic infrastructure projects.
Department of Urban Engineering
Hanbat National University
Professor Sang-ho Lee is an academic at the Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Hanbat National University, Daejeon, the republic of Korea. His research focuses on ubiquitous city planning and its application; forecasting the futuristic society, planning the ubiquitous services and the ubiquitous computing mobile/built environment, designing the ubiquitous spatial structure and land use, and management planning. He has a patent for “experimental urban planning and simulation system as ubiquitous spatial decision support system”. He can be contacted at lshsw@hanbat.ac.kr.
Associate Lecturer
School of Design, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Queensland University of Technology
Susan Loh, B. Arch., B. Arts, is a lecturer at the School of Design, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. She also does research for the Centre for Subtropical Design, QUT. She graduated in architecture from Ottawa, Canada and has been working for over ten years in Canada and Australia on aged care, commercial and residential buildings. Her main research interests and teaching topics are in sustainability, climatically responsive buildings and Living Walls.
Managing Director
Urban Cultures Ltd
John Montgomery is an internationally recognised authority and master planner in the economy, culture and design of cities. He has worked for over 20 years in cities as diverse as London, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Newcastle, Barcelona, Prague, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Canberra and Belfast. Major projects include the Greater London Development Plan, the London Industrial Strategy, the Economic Development Strategy for the South East of England, developing the 24/7 city economy in the UK, developing the creative industries in London, Manchester, Dublin and Sheffield, master-planning a new city in South East England and the design of the public realm in a number of cities.
He managed the first regional Green Plan in the UK, commissioned in 1985. In 1995, John was awarded a Royal Town Planning Institute prize for his work on a knowledge-based, environmentally sustainable industrial strategy for Hertfordshire. His work has directly influenced UK government policy on town and city centre revitalisation, the evening economy, the 'urban renaissance', the 24 Hour City, urban design, creative industry clusters and city cultural development. He is currently working on projects in Sydney, Brisbane and Newcastle NSW.
His latest book The New Wealth of Cites: City Dynamics and the Fifth Wave was published Ashgate in March 2007.
Earlier books include ‘City Centres, City Cultures: the Role of the Arts in Urban Regeneration’ (1987) and ‘Radical Planning Initiatives for the 1990s’ (1990). He has also published a range of articles in academic journals. ‘The Story of Temple Bar: Creating Dublin's Cultural Quarter’, Planning Practice and Research, 10, 2, pp135-172, 1995. ‘Planning for the Night-time Economy of Cities’, Regenerating Cities, 7, December 1994, pp 32-39. ‘Cafe Culture and the City: The Role of Pavement Cafes in Urban Public Social Life’, Journal of Urban Design, 2,1, pp83-102, 1997. ‘Making a City: Urbanity, Vitality and Urban Design’ Journal of Urban Design, 3,1, pp93-116, 1998. The most recent – ‘Born to Binge’, ‘City Dynamics’ and ‘Cities of the Fifth Wave’ - have all been published by Town and Country Planning in 2005. A pair of articles on successful cultural industry quarters was published by Planning Practice and Research in 2004 and 2005.
Dr Montgomery studied in Edinburgh and Oxford, has been a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1984, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Principal
HOK Sport Architecture
Alastair Richardson is a Senior Principal of HOK Sport Architecture and a Director of the Brisbane Office. Alastair is influential in the design profile of the company He is a leading proponent of Environmental Sustainable Design for Sports Facilities and is leading HOK Sport’s ESD initiatives for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He also led the design for Suncorp stadium in Brisbane.
Alastair has a wealth of experience in the design and extensive knowledge of the needs of large scale public assembly buildings and sports buildings He is Design Director for the redevelopment of Eden Park in New Zealand as well leading the proposed design of the first fully enclosed rugby stadium in Dunedin. Alastair Richardson is a Senior Principal of HOK Sport Architecture and a Director of the Brisbane Office. Alastair is influential in the design profile of the company He is a leading proponent of Environmental Sustainable Design for Sports Facilities and is leading HOK Sport’s ESD initiatives for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He also led the design for Suncorp stadium in Brisbane.
Alastair has a wealth of experience in the design and extensive knowledge of the needs of large scale public assembly buildings and sports buildings He is Design Director for the redevelopment of Eden Park in New Zealand as well leading the proposed design of the first fully enclosed rugby stadium in Dunedin.
Senior Lecturer
Queensland University of Technology
Paul has been an academic for 10 years and practicing architect for 18 years. Paul graduated from Kingston Polytechnic in the UK in 1986, worked in London for two years before emigrating to South Africa where he worked for a leading practice for a further ten years. During his professional career he was responsible for a number of major buildings as well as an involvement in urban design and housing issues.
Paul began his academic career at the University of Natal in 1998 and following a period as visiting lecturer to QUT in 2001, joined the staff on an ongoing basis in2003.
He has published in International Journals in the fields of architecture and urban design, and holds a MArch by research in 2003. He is currently enrolled in a PhD, researching urban morphological analysis as a method to evaluate urban form.
Paul was appointed as Architecture Coordinator in 2006.
Project Manager - Transit Oriented Development
Department of Infrastructure and Planning
Mark began his career as a cadet cartographer with the Queensland government, and still maintains an active interest in the application of geographic information system technologies as a key planning tool. Later moving into town planning, he spent a major part of his career in the Queensland coastal city of Bundaberg, where he was Project Director for the Wide Bay Burnett Regional Planning process.
Currently acting Director for the Department of Infrastructure and Planning’s Central Queensland region, Mark is temporarily based in Rockhampton, but also oversees planning and development issues from the tourism and agricultural areas of Mackay and the Whitsundays, the booming coal resource provinces of the Bowen Basin, the pastoral areas of the Central West, and the industrial powerhouse of Gladstone.
Mark is normally located in Brisbane, where he is the Project Manager for Transit Oriented Development within the Specialist Planning and Infrastructure Division of the Department of Infrastructure and Planning. Past roles have included senior positions in both statutory and regional planning.
Mark’s academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning with Honours; a Graduate Diploma in Natural Resources; and a Master of Business Administration, specialising in Environmental Stewardship.
Student
Queensland University of Technology
Naomi is in her final year of Architecture at QUT. Particular interests include urban morphology and the importance of context in design. She is currently working for Conrad Gargett Architecture on a variety of projects including defense, hospital and religious work.
Reader in Archicture
University of Queensland
Associate Professor Peter Skinner FAIA is Reader and former Head of Architecture at the University of Queensland, where he teaches architectural design and architectural technology. Following graduation from the University of Queensland in 1980, Peter practiced as an architect in Queensland five years working with Russell Hall, then Rex Addison. From 1985 Peter taught at the architecture school in Launceston, before returning to UQ in 1990. Peter’s Master of Architecture research thesis of 1995 examined ‘critical regionalism’ through examination of the design process that led to a novel house construction system. The system of systematised construction utilising lightweight transverse timber portal frames was further developed through constructional prototyping and structural testing.
Peter and his wife Elizabeth Watson-Brown (principal of EWB Architects) collaboratively designed the St Lucia House, winner of the RAIA Robin Dods Award in 2000. This project is a built manifesto of many of the architects’ ideas about appropriate design for subtropical living and has been widely published and exhibited in Australia and internationally. Subsequent design research projects have sought to explore climatically appropriate housing at medium densities.
Since 2004, Peter has been a State Councillor of the (formerly Royal) Australian Institute of Architecture Queensland Chapter and has convened and chaired their Public Affairs Committee. Peter regularly critiques contemporary architecture in the leading professional journals, and enjoys participation and provocation in debate on issues that affect the built environment in South-East Queensland.
Since 2006, Peter has used his architectural design studio teaching to stimulate student engagement with regional issues within the ongoing studio research project, SQUAD: Southeast Queensland Urban Architectural Design. One branch of personal design research explores subtropical housing models through design explorations and critical analyses. A second stream investigates the potentials revealed by the rapidly evolving urban form of the SEQ coastal city.
PhD Researcher
Queensland University of Technology
Suharto Teriman has over 10 years experience in the planning profession both as a town planner and academician. He had served with the Federal Town and Country Planning Department, Malaysia for four years before joining MARA University of Technology, Malaysia as a lecturer with the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying.
Mr Teriman’s interests are in the areas of physical planning and urban development, with particular focus on sustainable urban development and management. He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree programme at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. His doctoral research focuses on sustainable urban management of city regions in South East Asia.of Built Environment and Engineering
Postrgraduate Student
RMIT University
Cesar Torres Bustamante studied Architecture at Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico. After working as an architect in Mexico, he moved to Australia to study a Masters by Research at RMIT University, investigating the use and appropriation of urban parks in Mexico. As these conditions were ephemeral, he became interested in the representability of time, and the dilemma of its discontinuity and continuity in the discourse of Landscape Architecture. He experimented with video sequences and flash animations as techniques that confront the smooth narrative of progressive rationalization, identifying contingency as an essential element in designing strategies for urban parks.
He is currently studying a PhD in Landscape Architecture at RMIT. He has a particular interest in experimenting with new and alternative forms of mapping, focusing in temporal conditions of urban landscapes. His current research examines the possibilities of figure-ground maps as abstractions that cope with the complexity of reality. By acknowledging the artificial and fallible character of maps, figure-ground is able to embrace temporal conditions in the landscape, rendering visible field conditions and structuring new practices of design. This research approaches mapping as a formative and creative act in the design process, setting up conditions that uncover patterns and relationships.
(M Sc. Urban Planning, B. Arch.)
Freelance researcher
Anir Upadhyay is associated with Think Brick Australia (since June 2006) and is working towards developing “Climatic design guidelines for major locations in Australia”. This research aims to present climate data from various locations in Australia in a simple graphical format; and to develop design strategies to suit the particular climate. Anir’s research interest focuses on climate and its use in designing energy efficient/sustainable built environment. His teaching assignment at the Faculty of Built Environment, the University of New South Wales, Australia (2008) was also in the same research sector. Anir previously taught ‘energy efficient design’ at the Faculty of Architecture, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Anir has presented refereed research papers in various international conferences and published various papers in journals including one in a refereed international journal. He has a M.Sc. degree in Urban Planning (2003) and Bachelor degree in Architecture (2000) from Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
GeoLINK Senior Town Planner , Environmental Auditor & Principal
BAppSc (Coastal Management), DipAS (Resource Management), MIAIA, MPIA, MEIANZ.
Director; Australian Green Development Forum.
Rob has over 15 years experience in statutory planning, strategic planning and impact assessment in local government and private consultancy. His interest lies in environmental and town planning in the coastal zone, particularly as it applies to local government.
Rob’s experience includes the development of land use solutions in a variety of urban and rural settings. Involvement in GeoLINK’s research into villages in the Northern Rivers Region has given Rob unique and innovative insights into how communities evolve and how future settlements can provide liveable communities rather than just housing.
Rob’s extensive planning expertise is complemented by his stakeholder consultation facilitation, regularly utilised for major infrastructure projects, strategic planning initiatives and development proposals.
Professor Peter Coaldrake, Vice Chancellor Queensland University of Technology, addresses delegates and officially opens the Conference
Associate Director - Design
EDAW
Amalie Wright is an Associate Director of Design in the Brisbane studio of EDAW, an award-winning international practice. She is a multi-disciplinary designer with experience across the fields of architecture, landscape and urban art. Her work has included high density residential projects, urban design and the design and management of public integrated art. Her project focus is on the pursuit of quality design outcomes at all stages, from project inception to construction. Recently completed projects include a new pedestrian bridge linking Roma Street with the Suncorp Stadium Precinct. Amalie’s current projects include the Hilton Surfers Paradise and the Tennyson Riverside development, including significant new riverfront public parkland. In 2007, Amalie was awarded the MECU Travel Bursary by Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Subtropical Design. This year she will travel to Colombia and New York City to study the changing role of city parks.
Lecturer
Queensland University of Technology
Dr Tan Yigitcanlar has a multi-disciplinary background and nearly two decades of work experience in private consulting, government and academia. Currently a senior lecturer at the School of Urban Development, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, the main foci of his research are promoting knowledge-based urban development and advocating sustainable urban and transport development. These two broad research areas are clustered around several themes: knowledge economy, knowledge city frameworks, knowledge-intensive activities, local governance, civic engagement, sustainable urban development, urban and transportation modelling, accessibility planning, online decision support systems, and understanding urban structures, processes and driving forces in the knowledge era.
Dr Yigitcanlar is one of the leading researchers in the field of ‘knowledge-based urban development’, and he has been responsible for teaching, training and capacity building programmes on urban and regional planning, transport modelling, environmental science, policy analysis and information and communication technology in Turkish, Japanese and Australian universities. His research findings are published in respected academic, professional and popular literature. He is the editor of the two books entitled ‘knowledge-based urban development: planning and applications in the information era’ and ‘creative urban regions: harnessing urban technologies to support knowledge city initiatives’. He is currently editing two other books entitled ‘knowledge-based development: concepts, foundations and applications’ and ‘sustainable urban and regional infrastructure: technology, planning and management’.
Principal Designer/Construction Coordinator/Trainer
SPIRAL Community Hub
SPIRAL is a community development cooperative with a diverse agenda and as the principal designer, construction coordinator and trainer I work on sustainable design projects, coordinating council and construction documentation, estimating construction costs, training disengaged long term unemployed youth in construction skills as well as sustainable design principles.
Projects to date have been two rebuilding the SPIRAL office in a sustainable manner in West End; a public shaded picnic area in one of the community gardens SPIRAL manages; retaining walls and seating area for children at West End State Primary School; the design and fitout of a commercial kitchen and restaurant for a group of Eritrean refugee Women in Moorooka called Mu'ooz; redesigning the remainder of the SPIRAL premises to achieve more office space, a dedicated meeting room, a community cafe, space for our fair trade store and a biological wastewater recycling system including a reed bed and roof garden.
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