GUIDES and NOTES for Session Presenters

this page will be updated from time to time as questions are asked

The Conference Curators Notes (Linda Corkery)

transform

…considered as the verb, we can think of it in terms of…

Transforming urban landscapes -- turning brownfields into greenfields, sprawl v. consolidation, green infrastructure, reconnecting urban precincts, urban design for resiliency in the face of climate change; scales of transformation – from the metropolitan to the backyard.

Transforming attitudes and behaviour – communicating about change, communicating landscape values and principles, spreading the language of landscape; changing from a culture of consumption to one of sustainability.

Transforming communities – through participation and engagement; capacity building and community development; cultural expressions; landscape and public health; pedestrian and bicycle friendly environments; community gardening and other significant shared public spaces.

Transforming practice – working in collaboration with other disciplines, pro bono work, integrated design solutions.

Transforming education – the instrument of change; research and new knowledge, new technologies for delivering education, continual learning, situated and service learning.

Evolutionary v. revolutionary transformations – Is landscape architecture destined to be evolutionary because of the time it takes for our work to become apparent?

Technology speeds up the possibility for communicating our ideas and for simulating the development of a landscape over time, but the reality of transformation is much slower.

About your presentation

Please be aware that this conference does not feature parallel sessions – so your presentation will be to all delegates.

Consequently a small number of authors were invited to  be session speakers and have been allocated a 30 or 35 minute timeslot in a plenary sessions (the times are listed on the program) . The Key Speakers have 45 minutes. Discussion time is not included - that's an extra allocation of time to be overseen by the MC.

In bringing your paper together please be mindful of the topic ‘TRANSFORM’.

The big request – please aim to have your presentation move the thinking of the audience – to have them confront issues.

We are well past the time whereby we require speakers to provide comforting tones that ‘all is well’ and how wonderful we all are in what we are doing. This profession, along with all colleagues, share in the responsibility to bring about solutions and to provide leadership through insisting on enormous changes to the way we go about valuing landscape and to dealing with the enormous number of complexities in the provision of places for the future. Place Making is now far more complex.

We ask that you move the audience outside their comfort zones – they should be TRANSFORMED. They should be leaving this conference with issues to discuss and with your guidance to providing some of the solutions.

The Conference program aims to inform, inspire and catalyse discussion and debate around the pressing contemporary issues facing landscape architecture design, planning, research and education.

Proposals for papers should address the Conference’s general theme—Transform—as outlined in Linda Corkery’s, the conference curator, briefing notes above.

Please also consider that the AILA has a new suite of policy papers online. These national conferences are part of the ongoing dialogues and advocacy directions, so any connections to these policy directions that you can make through your presentations and papers would be very much appreciated:

www.aila.org.au/policies.

Papers presented at the Conference and published online after the Conference will be assigned an ISBN.

The fully developed papers should be 2,000-5,000 words in length and may be project-based, research or speculative papers.

These papers are due to be sent through to the National Office by Monday 23 May.

Once the papers are presented in August – we aim to have them published online by mid September – so most of the pre-publishing work will be done before the conference.

Please ensure you include the following:

Title

Author(s) name(s); department and institution, company or agency

Principal author listed first

Contact details for principal author (name, postal address, telephone, email address)

The paper should be in Microsoft word and contain imbedded images, placed as you require. Please supply original images with captions in a separate folder (medium resolution is fine as these are for online publishing only – but do not reduce them in linear size too much; leave them at least 1000 pixels wide and in length). FYI: when being readied to be published online, all images are removed and then slotted back in as the pages are re-created (using html)  –the original document is used to guide the final formatting – so expect some changes to your formatting but we will work to align as much as possible to the original.

Conference speakers are offered assistance through having their the Conference registration fees covered, but you must cover all other costs.

We really do ask that as part of your contract with the AILA that  you commit to meet deadlines and requirements. And we look forward to you entering into the spirit of the conference through being prepared to being a contributor to the debates and to initiate queries and comment whenever appropriate. Please take leadership
roles whenever opportunities present. And just as importantly offer comment and feedback on any other speaker’s presentation.

Finally – we do care about timing. Yes, I have been known to turn off the system to remove a speaker! So please keep to the time allocated and listen for the 5 minute warning bell – and yes – that is what it means.

We ask that you go along with our management of time. We aim to ensure the breaks as long as indicated as the delegates appreciate the networking time. And by keeping to the timing – the MC will be trying to squeeze in as much debate as possible. You assistance to keeping to the timing is appreciated.

Technical Stuff

About the presentation/ projector etc

The Brisbane Convention centre have told us that with the projector their standard is 4:3 ratio.

And there is a 20" screen visible in front of you as you present.

We ask that you present to the conference managers as early as possible to have your presentation slotted in and checked. The earlier the better!