Title- Beauty Aesthetics and Care: Poetic Expressions of Landscape and Culture Synopsis: Between 2010 and 2013 Kate Cullity embarked on her PhD and wrote an essay entitled, more than Just Looking Good: Beauty, Aesthetics, and Care. It explores her striving for an understanding of beauty as a poly-sensorial experience; one with multilayered associations. It also examines how the conduit of care encourages a sense of social, cultural, and environmental ideals that hopefully reverberate outwards to people who experience TCL’s projects. Kate’s presentation will examine the nexus between beauty, care, and sustainability by examining a number of TCL’s public as well as residential projects, including the recently completed Cultivated by Fire display garden for the Gardens of the World IGA–Berlin, The Australian Garden–a botanic garden dedicated to the display of Australian plants and the abstraction of the Australian environment, plus The National Arboretum in Canberra, an arboretum of ‘100 Forests’ of the world’s endangered tree species.

In the midst of Europe’s nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four Persians embarked on separate journeys to the wondrous Farangestan – a land of fascinating objects, mysterious technologies, heavenly women, and magical spaces. Determined to learn the secret of Farangestan’s advancements, the travelers kept detailed records of their observations. These diaries mapped an aspirational path to progress for curious Iranian audiences who were eager to change the course of history. Through this lecture, we unpacks these writings to reveal a challenging new interpretation of Iran’s experience of modernity. During the lecture, we shall open the Persian travelers’ long-forgotten suitcases, and analyzes the descriptions contained within to gain insight into Occidentalist perspectives on modern Europe. By carefully tracing the physical and mental journeys of these travelers, the book paints a picture of European architecture that is nothing like what one would expect.

Adrian Iredale Over the past 28 years Adrian has made a significant and sustained contribution to the profession of architecture at a State and National level. His participation in AIA juries both as a member and Chair across Australia have maintained a high level of critical discourse and clear advocacy for the impact that quality architecture can have in our community. Adrian is a Design Architect in its purest form, clearly thinking through drawing to translate ideas into clear communication. Educated in Perth, Melbourne (MArch Research RMIT) and Frankfurt (Stadelschule), Adrian’s experience in practice and lecturing and his extensive travels provide him with a truly global perspective. He has specific experience in urban design, education, aged care, custodial, sport and recreation and innovative, low cost, sustainable housing for both public and private clients. These projects have been highly rewarded and published and continue to set benchmarks for West Australian housing.

Tristan is the National Design Technology Innovation Lead of COX Architecture, an active member of the COX Futures Committee, COX Research Working Group, and coordinates COX’s National Computational Design Group. With a background in practice, teaching, and research, he is a passionate advocate for technological innovation nationally. The integration of emerging and innovative technology within practice is a key focus of his work, which is balanced against providing critical digital technology and computational support and advice to project teams. Tristan received the WA Future Leader of the Year Design Award from the Property Council of Australia in 2019, and is a current member of the Australian Institute of Architects' Digital Technology Committee.

Mauro Coni, MD, Ph.D. was born in Cagliari in 1965 and he is a Professor on “Roads, Railways and Airports” at the University of Cagliari (Italy). The Principal interest is sustainable development to throw an integrated approach. He did his Ph.D. in “Mechanical Planning” in 1995 and his Ph.D. Fellow in “Transport Infrastructures” in 1999. Since 1991 he has carried out researches on environmental impact from transport infrastructures, noise, and vibrations, pavement simulation and design, materials, construction, and maintenance. The 126 scientific papers include also studies on socio-economics development, ITS, sustainable mobility, road accessibility, runway, and road pavements, context-sensitive road design, and recycling in road construction. He is a consultant for public administrations, airports, and private companies and from 2011 to 2016 he has been Transport Councillor for Cagliari Administration.

Neil Cownie Architect - Neil Cownie Connection to place.

The Regions, Revitalisation and the Role of Urban Design ​Andrew is a strategic thinker who brings together finely tuned technical skills and delivery experience, enabling creative ideas to land in practical execution. This experience comes from over 3 decades of design with state government development agencies, 4 years in Sydney for a consulting firm, and for the past 25 years with element where he has been part of the leadership team that has grown the business from 3 people to the 45 people it employs today. His depth of knowledge around commercial drivers, persistent yet practical approach, ability to think on his feet, and commitment to working authentically with local communities to realise their place potential has enabled him to break new ground in areas such as developing planning controls, raising urban design standards and embedding placemaking principles into management of billion-dollar assets. In the future, Andrew sees that planners and designers will need to more deliberately orientate thinking toward new drivers for commercial activity and employment generation as the internet and automation continues to shake up life as we know it.

COX - Steve Woodland & Greg Howlett Greg Howlett and Steve Woodland are directors at COX, one of Australia’s largest and most awarded architecture and interior design practices. Across 6 national studios and one in Dubai, COX works to a unified ethos based on the principles of craft, structure, art and nature. These principles inform all aspects of design, from the smallest-scale interior to large and complex urban infrastructure. COX Perth has received the George Temple Poole Award for best building in the State at the WA Architecture Awards for the last two years - in 2018 for Optus Stadium (completed in association with Hassell) and this year for Perth Children’s Hospital (with JCY, Billard Leece Partnership and HKS).

Currencies in Design Education: Critical Making Practices In this seminar, Professor Belcher remarks on the evolution, strengths, and emergent optimism in Professional design education. This seminar identifies the burgeoning pedagogical changes in the core architectural education caused by critical and professional vocabularies that have significantly shaped architecture through increasingly porous and interdependent worlds of sustainability, globalization, entrepreneurialism, and technology. Furthermore, he outlines how Ubiquitous Technology, Ecological Urgency, Borderless practices, Aesthetic Arbitrage are conspiring to force changes in design education for the better.

Peter Damen is the Chief Executive Officer of Level 5 Design, the Chairman of Innovate Australia, and the architect and past Chairman of the nation’s peak body for autonomous vehicles, the Australia and New Zealand Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ADVI). Prior to establishing Level5Design, Peter was the Chief Operating Officer of Australia's national road and transport research agency. In his role at Level 5 Design, Peter works closely with leading autonomous vehicle technology companies to operationalise their technology into Australian applications. Peter is considered a national and international expert in emerging transport technologies, automated vehicles, parking and traffic management, road safety and future transport planning. He is a qualified civil engineer with over 25 years' experience in the industry. He has been involved in some of Australia’s largest transport infrastructure projects and he has an industry network that extends across the globe. Peter believes that innovation is the key to Australia’s future – in making better investment decisions and accomplishing more for the community.

Woods Bagot - Csilla Csabai & Andrew Tang-Smith Csilla is a Senior Interior Designer who has taken on the additional roles of Studio Practice Manager and Studio Technical Leader for Woods Bagot’s Perth Studio. Csilla has received her Qualification in Hungary and build her understanding of the history of craftsmanship and detailing exhibited in complex European Architecture and Interior Design. She has shown a deep interest in the ‘why, how, and what?’ aspects of the delivery of the studio’s projects. The intricacies of translating a concept into a tangible 3-dimensional structure fascinate her. Her objective is to provide well-educated, sustainable design solutions and uphold the Perth Studio's high-quality standards. Csilla mentors high school students to achieve their career goals and play a role in the in-house mentoring of young talents. Andrew is currently an Associate Principal at Woods Bagot and the Architectural design lead of the Perth studio. After graduating from Curtin in 2011, he travelled to China to reconnect with this heritage but also as the recipient of the Australia Chamber of Commertver Scholarship and began an internship at the Woods Bagot Beijing Studio. He has since had his fair share of international and local experience, building expertise on large mixed-use, civic and tall tower projects from China to Dubai; and nationally, as a registered architect on a variety of projects in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. He has since settled back in Perth with a young family for the past 3 years and has been leading the design team, driving design concepts and competitions and taking projects to completion. Andrew enjoys continued engagements with Curtin University, regularly mentors budding talents and has periodically been sessional academic teaching mainly in the field of design and urban studios.

Nic Brunsdon has recently begun with the State Government's Department of Planning, Lands, and Heritage as the director of Design WA. Design WA is a State Government initiative to ensure good design is at the centre of all development in Western Australia. In this role he is overseeing the full policy suite, which includes, Apartments, Precincts, Activity Centres, Neighbourhoods, and Medium-Density housing. Nic is also the director of the architectural practice NIC BRUNSDON (formerly POST- architecture), and the director of the urban program Spacemarket, which pairs disused spaces with useful people. Since its formation, Spacemarket has paired over 400 tenants across 20,000m2 of floor space and continues to work across Australia to activate forgotten, unloved, and in-between use spaces that test the changing nature of work and occupancy. His architecture practice is much awarded and operates locally and internationally from Perth, Western Australia. In 2015 he was the winner of the Australian Institute of Architects Emerging Architect Award, firstly for Western Australia and then nationally. He is a past nominee for the 40 under 40 young business leaders award, a nominated thought leader for the City of Perth, the 2015 recipient of the Dulux International Study Tour for Emerging Architects, the 2017/18 recipient of the Gil Nicol Biennial International Study Bursary, has a significant project demonstrating inner-urban residential infill on the upcoming season of Grand Designs Australia, and has two projects currently shortlisted as finalists in the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards.

The Future Architect - What's changing DISRUPTION?

Architecture that Matters - A new home for the School of Design and the Built Environment. An outline of JWA’s process of delivering a landmark building for Curtin University, from briefing and concept design through to detailing and construction. Exploring how the core design themes, functional requirements and technical performance of the building interweave to generate a unique and meaningful architectural outcome. John Wardle Architects is internationally renowned for making extraordinary buildings and places that matter. A team of 100+ design professionals work across Australia and internationally from our two studios in Melbourne and Sydney. The practice is a large collaborative environment where every project has a range of creative, technical and strategic contributions from a diverse team of architects and interior designers within JWA. Retaining the creative energy of a small studio, pinning work up, and exploring new territory is fundamental to how the practice works. JWA have expertise in master planning, urban design, architecture, and interior design. Led by Founding Principal, John Wardle, the work ranges across education, residential and commercial projects, encouraging the cross fertilisation of ideas. Many projects by JWA have been highly awarded. In 2018, this included National AIA Awards for Educational Architecture and Interior Architecture, the RIBA Award for International Excellence and the Dezeen Award for Best House Interior. JWA has twice been recognised with the prestigious Sir Zelman Cowen Award for best public building in Australia in 2002 and 2006, and has twice received Robin Boyd Awards for best residential project in Australia. The practice has also won two Victorian Architecture Medals.

For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize. Nader Tehrani is Founding Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. He is also Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. He has also received the Harleston Parker Award and the Hobson Award. Throughout his career, Tehrani has received eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards as well as numerous national and international design awards. He served as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and the inaugural Paul Helmle Fellow at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He also recently served as the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. His office, NADAAA, for the past seven years in a row, has ranked in the Top eleven design firms in Architect Magazine’s Top 50 Firms in the United States, ranking as First three years in a row.

David Gianotten is the Managing Partner – Architect of OMA. He oversees the overall organisational and financial management, business strategy, and growth of OMA in all markets, in addition to his own architectural portfolio. As partner-in-charge, David currently leads the design and construction of projects in different regions, including the Taipei Performing Arts Centre; the Prince Plaza Building in Shenzhen; the masterplan of Rotterdam’s Feyenoord City and the design of the new 63,000-seat Feyenoord Stadium; Amsterdam’s Bajes Kwartier—conversion of a large 1960s prison complex into a new neighborhood with 1,350 apartments; and VDMA—transformation of an unused site with industrial heritage in Eindhoven into a mixed-use urban hub. David has led the design and realisation of the Potato Head Studios—a resort in Bali (Completed 2020), the New Museum for Western Australia in Perth (Completed 2019), MPavilion 2017 in Melbourne and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange headquarters (Completed 2013). He was responsible for the end stages of the CCTV headquarters in Beijing (Completed 2012). Projects led by David have been published worldwide, and have received awards including the 2017 Melbourne Design Awards and the CTBUH Awards in 2013. David lectures around the world about his projects, and on topics including the future of the architectural profession, the role of context in projects, and speed and risk in architecture. David joined OMA in 2008, launched OMA’s Hong Kong office in 2009, and became partner in 2010. He has led OMA’s portfolio in the Asia-Pacific region for seven years. In 2015, he returned to the Netherlands to oversee OMA globally as Managing Partner – Architect. Before joining OMA, he was Principal Architect at SeARCH in the Netherlands. Since 2016, David has been a professor in the Architectural Urban Design and Engineering department at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he is a graduate in Architecture and Architectural Engineering. He also serves on the board of the Netherlands Asia Honors Summer School.

Adrian is a co-founder of Hesperia and has been involved in property development, property investment and the construction industry in Western Australia for over 35 years, largely in his capacity as the Principal of Fini Group. He has spearheaded some of Perth’s most progressive residential, commercial, hospitality and retail projects including, most notably, the heritage regeneration of the State Buildings in the Perth CBD. Title: The Power of Politics: Can the system deliver the city that residents want? Synopsis: There are basic fundamentals of good city-making. Have we delivered all of this in the City of Perth or greater Perth? No. Whilst there is an endless journey of improving our city and a growing list of threats and complexities arise, the ‘vision’ to deliver a better city seems to get lost.

Ross Donaldson served as CEO and Chairman at Woods Bagot from 2006-16 through its emergence as Australia’s largest and the world’s sixth-largest architectural practice. He serves on the AIA’s national climate action Taskforce. He sits on Curtin’s School of Design and Built Environment Advisory Board and helps practices and young practitioners with defining their future. Title- Architectural Futures: Climate, Liveability, and Computation Synopsis: Architects must now take a much greater level of responsibility for the performance of our buildings, not only in dealing with the climate crisis but also to elevate the behavioural performance of buildings and cities for their users. To fully deliver on our responsibilities to the communities we serve, we must draw on the full potential of the computational tools emerging.

Dimmity Walker from Space Agency - talks about Premier Mill Hotel and selected projects.

Meaghan is the Founder of Meaghan White Architects. Title- Architecture. Synopsis: architect + mum + builder

Patrick Bearle Title- Engineered timber, Native Timber, Digital Design and Fabrication: What is different for an architect working in this space with reference to two recent and current projects. Synopsis: Working with engineered timber and with sophisticated prefabrication technologies is a very different practice from typical business as usual practice. This talk will make reference to the design and fabrication process for the Pingelly Recreation and Cultural Centre, the South Hedland Performance Shell, and the Ravensthorpe Cultural precinct undertaken by ATC studio and their collaborating partners.

Mabel O. Wilson, is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor in Architecture and also a professor in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. She also serves as the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies and co-directs Global Africa Lab. With her practice Studio&, she is a collaborator in the architectural team that recently completed the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia. She’s a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide. She has authored Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2017) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012). She co-edited with Irene Cheng and Charles Davis the recently published volume Race and Modern Architecture: From the Enlightenment to Today (2020). For MoMA, she is co-curator of the current exhibition Reconstructions: Blackness and Architecture in America. Title- Studio&: A Black Study Synopsis: Modernity has built its superior culture through its forms, aesthetics, and practices to place it above and beyond the primitive, savage, folk, and the racial other. If, as poet Fred Moten suggests “study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice,” then this lecture/q&a by Mabel O. Wilson on her transdisciplinary practice Studio& will ask: can the practice of history/design become a “Black study”?

As a Principal at element, Flavia shares her global perspective and commitment to heritage practice, where she leads Element’s team in the preparation of their heritage services. She has 23 years of international heritage experience, and 13+ years of experience in Australia. Flavia holds qualifications in architecture, urban planning and cultural heritage management, and is the Western Australian representative on the Australia ICOMOS National Executive Committee and Australian representative on the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Climate Change and ICOMOS International Rights-based Approach Working Group. Flavia is also part of our School of Design and the Built Environment Advisory Board. Title- Unpacking Cultural Heritage Synopsis: This ArchiTalk will explore key considerations and insights in adaptive reuse design on heritage places and opportunities for heritage best practice.

Isaac McCormack is a graduate of architecture at GHD Woodhead and Casual Academic at Curtin University. Completing his master’s degree at Curtin University in 2018 receiving the EG Cohen medal and Peter Hunt travel prize upon graduation. Isaac developed a passion for narrative and speculative architecture during his final year of university and thesis. Wishing to tell stories about the form and experience of space using both the written and drawn medium. Questioning and exploring the ways in which indigenous culture is often simplified and not understood. He writes and draws new stories to express the complexity of the culture hoping they act as gateways to culture and understanding. Title - Narrative Landscapes Synopsis: How can narratives and storytelling be used to understand indigenous architecture in Australia? This talk is my journey through trying to answer this question and understand the built form of modern cities.

Julian Gitsham Principal of Hassell, London, Julian Gitsham. A RIBA registered architect and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Julian enjoys the process of restoring celebrated spaces to be enjoyed by future generations. Title- First Light and the Architecture of the Stars Synopsis: The talk will be about the design of the First Light Pavilion and the SKA Global HQ at Jodrell Bank Radio Astronomy Observatory in the UK.

Dr. Dominique Hes is the Zero Building Carbon Lead at the City of Melbourne. Previously she was an academic at the University of Melbourne and RMIT, and holds an adjunct position at Griffith University. Dominique mixes theory and thinking, with doing and testing. Her main contribution is to think about how we can contribute to the well-being and thriving of place, people and planet. Title- Architecture provocation to get us to a Regenerative Australia by 2030 Synopsis: This talk will outline the basics of Regenerative Development, use some projects to illustrate its potential and to challenge us to think about what this should mean for architectural practice.

Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University. Peter has written 23 books and over 370 papers on sustainable cities and decarbonization policy. He has worked to deliver his ideas in all levels of government having been an elected councilor, seconded to advise three Premiers and on the Board of Infrastructure Australia 2008-14. He is the Co-ordinating Lead Author for the UN’s IPCC on Transport. In 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to urban design and sustainable transport. In 2018/19 he was the WA Scientist of the Year. Title- Climate Change Futures: How does the Built Environment turn Risk into Opportunity? Synopsis: After 10 years in IPCC my sense is that the world is turning from seeing climate change as a cost or risk into an opportunity for business, communities and local economies to create a decarbonised future. I want to set out what I see as the major opportunities for us in the built environment professions in cities and regions, especially in WA.

Lucian Hicks Title- People. Places. Things. Synopsis: Place is keenly aware of the importance of urban fabric – in the streets, urban spaces, parks, and the lives of a city’s users in successful outcomes. Place draws on the sensorial, social, cultural, and artistic qualities of cities in many parts of the world, and the diverse cultures of their inhabitants. Place considers the daytime and night-time events and activities – from people’s banal daily routine to grand mass celebrations – that activate cities year-round. Place is looking beyond design and balancing the physical characteristics of ecology and site with climate and economics, and further with vital people-led aspects of social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. In this lecture, Lucian outlines the grounding aspects that define authentic and public places in the 21st century, supported by recent projects that explore the pursuit of place in the design and delivery of culture, residential, public domain, and infrastructure projects.

Mario Panizza Title- Reflections Synopsis: Research The suggestion of the project is not only rational and methodical; it also comes from the discovery of formal balances, sometimes found by chance, transformed into spatial and volumetric compositions. This research is helped by the drawing and, above all, by the brush: the first collects the impressions; the second describes construction and matter. ​Practice Progressive glazes of shadows dig the canvas, extracting the volume from the light and defining the balance of the details and the depth of the surface. Subjects Simple themes read through the curiosity of the architect, but also intricate themes played through the curiosity of the painter.

Title- From Middle Earth to the Middle East Synopsis: This lecture shares Jeremy’s personal, professional and academic journey that has brought him to work in one of the most fast-paced and extravagant cities in the world. He would also like to provide a realistic perspective working in Dubai as well as share some of the projects he has been involved in and experiences he has had working in the context of the Middle East.

Title- On Nordic Happiness. Finnish urban planning principles that support mental well-being. Anu Besson is a Finnish-Australian urban studies and architecture researcher with a PhD in Environmental Aesthetics, or philosophy of sensory perception of urban and natural environments. She lives in Perth but works remotely for a Finnish university. Currently, she conducts qualitative research on how people conceive and construct a sense of homeliness. Previously she has researched architecture heritage and urban planning and in-situ experiences of indoor and outdoor environments. Synopsis: Finland was assessed as the happiest country in the world for the 4th year in a row. This success stems from deliberate policy decisions, including the aim to create cities that support environmental, physiological and psychosocial health. This talk will explore how principles such as the ‘right to forage’, art funding in public construction projects, and accessibility/walkability reviews in urban planning have helped to build cities of happy people.

Synopsis: CREATIVE EMPATHY: SENSITIVITY, CREATIVITY, SUSTAINABILITY. We must understand better and with greater sensitivity the relationship between architecture and climate, knowing that maybe we are witnessing the beginning a new period, characterized by research and experimentation of new languages that overlap and integrate with technology. Some new buildings address the issue of energy savings and, more broadly, that of new languages. These examples, which are multiplying around the world, demonstrate the birth of a new ethic due to greater awareness of environmental issues. We are facing a new challenge for architecture. This is a great creative opportunity because the need to address the problem of energy consumption in buildings offers the opportunity to rethink the contemporary city.

Title- Social and Affordable Housing Michelle's first career was in marketing and advertising as a Writer and Creative Director in Perth and Sydney. In 2000, she returned to Perth to study architecture at the University of Western Australia where she graduated with first class honours and embarked on her second career. She has gone on to win various awards for her architecture and social housing work. Michelle now has her own architecture practice, Michelle Blakeley, Architect Pty Ltd, which focuses on creating more efficient, thermally comfortable, and joyful living spaces which respond to the lifestyle of the occupants. This includes developing high performance models for social and low-income affordable housing. Michelle Is Chair the “My Home” initiative which delivers housing for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The first “My Home” project was completed in North Fremantle earlier this year. The project has been lauded by government, community organisations, private developers, and the general public as an exemplar of social housing. “My Home” is moving forward with development of land owned by State government, Local government and Church bodies across Perth and regional areas and will continue to deliver homes for people who are homeless into the future.

Title- Process in Architecture and storytelling /Seeking serendipity through materiality and craftmanship, within an increasingly efficient and connected world. Partner at Kengo Kuma and Associates, where Rita has gained extensive experience leading international projects across Asia, Europe, and Middle East. She specialises in public and cultural projects and has played an integral role in spearheading numerous initiatives abroad, including the extension of The Gulbenkian Museum, Founders’ Memorial in Singapore, and the Expo Osaka 2025- Portugal Pavilion. Originally from Portugal, Rita has been residing and working in Japan for more than a decade as a creative artist and architect. She believes in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to develop out-of-the-box solutions for innovative design and architectural spaces. With a keen understanding that context is critical. She holds a master’s degree from Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture, Yokohama National University, under the guidance of Rue Nishizawa. Her expertise in architecture and urban planning has been instrumental in approaching projects she has worked on.

Title- Learning Environments – Harnessing Design for a Better Future This ArchiTalk considers the challenges and opportunities presented by current global trends, focusing on their implications for learning environments, referencing examples from Grimshaw’s approach to higher education projects, including master planning, innovation, organisational culture, and sustainability.

Maria Vittoria Delli Carri is trained as an architect and landscape architect and joined West 8 in 2019. Maria Vittoria specialises in large-scale urban design and landscape projects with a major natural component, for both transformative and completely new-built areas. Her approach to design is grounded in thorough research into the particulars of a site with a focus on geomorpho­logical systems. Maria Vittoria’s main expertise are vision development and conceptual design. Title- Second Nature – West 8 This ArchiTalk is an introduction to the systemic approach of West 8's multi-disciplinary design studio. Within the lecture, Maria Vittoria will introduce notable keystone projects from West 8's 35 years of experience, as well as a larger case study on how landscape architecture can combine resilience and climate adaptation with cultural identity and visitor experience.

Emma is the Government Architect of Western Australia and Chair of the State Design Review Panel, providing independent, expert advice on significant projects and strategic planning to State Government, the Premier and Minister for Planning. Emma holds degrees in Architecture and Interior Design, is an Adjunct Professor at Monash University, and has nearly 30 years’ experience as a practicing architect and business owner. Title- Achieving good design outcomes

Prof SueAnne Ware has over 25 years of design research practice through a set of critical lenses and discursive questions centring on themes of: contesting the public realm, conflating intersectionality, provoking social engagement, and embracing radical hope. Her most recent work explores regimes of care and notions of feral; resulting in wild, unrestrained or uncultivated states as they pertain to contemporary and historic practices in ecology, landscape architecture, remediating toxic sites, and gardening (see https://delpratgarden.com.au/ and  https://powerplantsphytoremediation.com/) .  Much of Ware’s design research practice explores physical catalysts for social and political change or more simply, design activism. She aims to incite action by using counter-narratives to an unsustainable status quo.  Ware is a co- founder of out(fit) see http://www.outfit.org.au/, an all-female collective of design practitioners and student volunteers who work in marginalized and disadvantaged communities. Out(fit) provides design and build services for women’s domestic violence refuges, underfunded schools for students with special needs, and Indigenous Community Centres. She believes that landscape architects share a responsibility for exploring political, social and environmental agendas in public spaces.   SueAnne’s projects reflect her commitment to society's marginalised communities and an exploration of issues such as drug addiction, 'illegal' refugee policies and domestic violence. She creates spaces that generate friction, where protests are permitted and possible, where attention is drawn to some of society's most pervasive issues, and passers-by may discover insight into what Ware hopes is a more humanitarian and compassionate approach.  Her design projects have won national and international awards; including Delprat Garden, Humus (film), Power Plants, Germinate, Honeysuckle Placemaking, St Andrews Bushfire Memorial, The SIEV X memorial, the Road as Shrine, and the Anti-Memorial to Heroin Overdose Victims.

TRCB is a Perth-based practice which works primarily in the public sphere. Founded as Taylor Robinson in 1995, the practice merged with Broderick Architects and Chaney Architecture in 2018 to form TRCB. Fred Chaney and Eamon Broderick now lead the TRCB practice which specialises in education, civic and cultural facilities, urban design and retail development. ​

Elizabeth is passionate about how we adapt cities and towns to be more resilient to the reality of uncertain climate. She has extensive experience in the recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast post-Katrina. She is currently leading the development of the Northern Rivers Living Lab with colleagues from the University of Southern Cross and the support of the NSW Government. Elizabeth Mossop is Professor of Landscape Architecture and former Dean of the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building at the University of Technology in Sydney. She has led the university’s strategy for the Creative Industries since 2021. She has held leadership positions at Harvard GSD, the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University and the University of NSW. She is a founding principal of Spackman Mossop Michaels landscape architects, based in Sydney, New Orleans and Detroit.

In the First Nations Sector of our industry, Clients often require input from the First Nations community in which the project site is located. This can mean different things to different people, and historically, community engagement has been done poorly and merely to ‘tick a box’. This presentation looks at what community engagement means to Indij Design and how we undertake the journey in a safe and respectful way. Andrew is a Territory-born Architect who has focused the last 30 years of his professional life on indigenous housing and infrastructure. His work has led to life experiences in remote communities across Central Australia, East Arnhem Land, South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland. This includes 5 years living in Alice Springs, working in remote communities and outstations and 8 years working for Arup on the National Aboriginal Health Strategy (NAHS) Program before starting his own architectural practice – Indij Design – in 2011 with his Torres Strait Islander wife Francoise. Although Territory born, Andrew’s bloodline is through the Dhanggati nation in Central NSW.

The award-winning practice MGS has, over its 40 years of operation, sought to shape a design-led practice grounded in the strengths and needs of the communities it serves. This approach has enabled the firm to work across multiple scales, from policy, city, and precinct to campus, institution, and individual buildings, partnering with governments, communities, schools and universities, public and community housing agencies, institutions, and the private sector to support the positive transformation of places, institutions, and households. ​In this presentation, Practice for Impact, Founder and Principal Professor Rob McGauran AM will outline the structure of the practice, the key issues that continue to drive MGS, and a selection of projects that have defined its impact.