program                

Thursday 7th May 2009

10.00 am – Registration open - preference given to site tour delegates

Site Tours

10.30am and various departure times  – all to return by 4.00pm:

One: (10.30am) Cranbourne Botanic Gardens (closed- booked out)

Two: (11.30am)  Docklands (closed- booked out)

Three: (11.00am) St Kilda foreshore and Raglan St Parkland 
                                  supported by City of Port Phillip

Four: (11.00am) Melalueca Wetlands, Fern Tree Gully

                 site tour sponsor: 

                 site tour sponsor: 

all tours to be completed by 4pm

Doors open 5.00 pm - registration re-opens

6.00pm  Official Opening  &  Welcome

Diane Kerr - Welcome to Country

Dr SueAnne Ware, AILA Conference Curator and Neil Hobbs (AILA National President) - Welcome and introduction to Landscape Principles

Jason Prior sponsored by
'The Bigger Picture'
         Climate change and social inclusion -
                        the professional challenge in the coming decades.

Neil Hobbs - Special Announcement

Mark Frisby, AILA Victoria President - Welcome to Melbourne

Introduction to Green Roof Competition - announcement of winner

Leon van Schaik  
The Practice of Practice, seen through Spatial Intelligence

8.00 pm Cocktails  - Hosted by

Stuart Niven, Director of Urban Design,
Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development

Friday  8th May 2009

7.45 am  Registration Opens

8.45 am   Dr SueAnne Ware - Introductions and Welcome

session one

Chaired by Dr SueAnne Ware

9.00 – 10.00   (includes 10 mins discussion)  
KEY PRESENTATION
Walter  Hood   Walter Hood Design, San Francisco  #
Topic TBA #

session two

Chaired by Darren Atkinson

10.00 – 11.00   (includes 10 mins discussion)  
KEY PRESENTATION
Francesca  Galeazzi  ARUP Associates UK and China
unified design – a radical wholeness in thinking and execution

11.00  - 11.25  Morning Tea

session three

Chaired by Rob Cooper  AILA                 

11.30   - 12.45    (includes 10 mins discussion)  
K EY PRESENTATION
Anuradha Mathur (and Dilip da Cunha) 
Measures of the Sea in Design
   

12.45  -  1.45  Lunch

session four

Chaired by  Leon van Schaik, RMIT

1.45  - 2.45  (includes 10 mins discussion)   
KEY PRESENTATION
Alma Du Solier  
Displaced: design in a shrinking world

2.45 – 3.30     (includes 5- 10 mins discussion)  
Conference Speaker
Kirsten Bauer and Sacha Coles
Interrogation of a Design Practice  (abstract)

3.30  – 3.55   Afternoon Tea

session five

Chaired by Mandy Rounsefell AILA Vice President

4.00  - 5.00    (includes 10 mins discussion)  
KEY PRESENTATION
Elizabeth Meyer 
Sustaining beauty    

5.00 – 5.40    (includes 5- 10 mins discussion)  
Conference Speaker 
Adrian McGregor  
The biocity model | an antidote to fossil fuel planning (abstract)

6.00 to 7.30 pm

+  Unlandscaped Competition announcement 
+  Exhibition opening
+ 30 yrs LAA

Drinks and canapés 

Shed 4, Dock 4, North Wharf Road, Docklands
(5 minutes walk from Conference, directions provided)

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This exhibition examines spatial and material qualities that define the Australian landscape through the lens of landscape architecture. The presence or absence of water in its various forms determines much about the cultural and physical differences in Australia. Iconic aspects of the landscape will be explored through the richness of extremities, which are marked, but gradual in relation to the scale of the country. The discrepancy between ideas about and the reality of Australia are played out through the selected landscape design projects.

Saturday 9th May 2009

8.30 am   Doors Open

8.45am    Dr SueAnne and Neil Hobbs - Welcome Back

                  IFLA Welcome from Diane Menzies (IFLA President)

session six

Chaired by  Scott Graham AILA  

9.00   - 10.30   
KEY CHALLENGE FORUM

Three challenge presentations:

Elizabeth Mossop    30 mins
‘Re-Making New Orleans: the down low on the lower 9’ (abstract)

James Rosenwax      30 mins
Climate: Design (abstract)

Dilip da Cunha - Respondent 10 -15 mins

 

10.30 – 11.00   Morning Tea

session seven

Chaired by  Alun Chapman

11.00 – 12.15   KEY CHALLENGE FORUM   

Main Challenge Presentation:
Linda Corkery & Catherine Evans
green infrastructure: connectivity and context
(abstract)   35 mins

Respondent: Alma Du Solier 10 -15 mins

Respondent: Anuradha Mathur  10 -15 mins

15 minutes discussions

12.15 – 1.30  Lunch

session eight

Chaired by  Gini Lee AILA

1.30 – 3.00  KEY CHALLENGE FORUM

Three challenge presentations: ART and LANDSCAPE (intervention)

Francesca  Galeazzi    (25 mins)
Justifying Bad Behaviour:    video and talk on her artworks

Tanya Court    (20 - 25 mins)
Shift in Vision: Reconsidering the Land Artists (abstract )

Walter Hood    ( 25 mins)
Topic TBA #

Discussions

session nine

Chaired by  Gini Lee AILA

3.00 – 4.15  KEY CHALLENGE FORUM

Two challenge papers and one to respond:

Stephen Loo  (20 - 25 mins)
Landscape ethico-poetics in the age of ecological uncertainty (abstract)

Stephen Perry, Dr Rob Reeve, Dr Jeannie Sim  (20 - 25 mins)
An Old Language for a New Landscape (abstract)

Respondent Elizabeth Meyer  10 -15 mins

Discussions

4.15 - 5.15       Drinks and nibbles break

session ten (last one)

5.30 –  7.00   FINAL CHALLENGE FORUM

Future Practice -- from issues and principles to action

Special Presentation around the issues of the Landscape Principles and the future directions of the profession.  Co-Chairs: Professor Catherin Bull AM FAILA and Dr Diane Menzies (IFLA President).

This session will be both summary and discursive - the chairs will be joined by other conference presenters and will be encouraging contributions from the delegates.

7.00 - late:

Dinner - buffet style

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