Speakers


Professor Richard J. Hobbs

Speaker as part of 'New Natures'
Richard leads the Ecosystem Restoration and Intervention Ecology Research Group at the University of WA.


Dr Mark Stafford Smith

Speaker as part of 'New Natures'
Mark is Chief Coordinating Scientist, overseeing Adaptation Research at the CSIRO in Canberra.


Dorte Ekelund

Speaker as part of 'New Cities'
Dorte Ekelund is the Director-General at Environment and Planning Directorate, based in Canberra.


Dr Catherin Bull

Speaker as part of 'New Views'
Catherin is Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne.


Steve Calhoun

Speaker as part of 'New Views'
Steve Calhoun is a Founding Director of Tract Consultants.


Elizabeth Mossop

Speaker as part of 'New Views'
Elizabeth Mossop is a founding principal of Spackman Mossop + Michaels landscape architects.


Perry Lethlean

Speaker as part of 'New Views'
Perry Lethlean is Director of the Melbourne office of Taylor Cullity Lethlean


Jeff Malpas

Speaker as part of 'New Stories'
Jeff Malpas is an author and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania.


Daniel Crooks

Speaker as part of 'New Signs'
Daniel Crooks is an artist practising across a range of media including video, photography and installation


Dr Naomi Stead

Speaker as part of 'New Signs'
Dr Naomi Stead is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland.


Andrew Lilleyman
Speaker as part of 'New Signs'

Andrew is a Director at Ashton Raggatt McDougall, a leading architectural practice in Australia.


Professor Bradley Cantrell

Speaker as part of 'New Techniques'
Bradley Cantrell is a landscape architect and scholar whose work focuses on the role of computation.


Jessica Christiansen-Franks

Speaker as part of 'New Practices'
Jessica is the CEO of CoDesign Studio & the Project Director forThe Neighbourhood Project.


Nicky McNamara

Speaker as part of 'New Practices' 
Nicky McNamara is a Landscape Architect and project manager working with remote Indigenous communities in Alice Springs.


Helen Lochhead

Speaker as part of 'Gen Z'
Helen is the Dean, UNSW Built Environment and an architect, urban and landscape designer.

Curators

Prof-Emeritus Helen Armstrong FAILA

Curator
Helen was the Inaugural Professor of Landscape Architecture at QUT 1997-2003 and now is Professor-Emeritus.


Paul Carter

Curator
Paul is a writer and artist and Professor of Design (Urbanism), RMIT University, Victoria.


Dr Jillian Walliss

Curator
Jillian teaches landscape theory and design studios at the University of Melbourne, Victoria.


Joshua Zeunert

Curator
Joshua is is a landscape architect and lecturer at Deakin University, Victoria.


Ellen Neises

Speaker as part of 'New Natures'
Ellen Neises teaches landscape design at the graduate school of design at the University of Pennsylvania.


Simon Kilbane

Speaker as part of 'New Natures'
Simon is course director of the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Technology Sydney.


Adrian McGregor

Speaker as part of 'New Cities'
Adrian McGregor is a landscape architect and urbanist. He is the founder and CEO of McGregor Coxall.


Craig Allchin

Speaker as part of 'New Cities'
Craig Allchin is currently a director of Six Degrees Urban and Adjunct Professor of Architecture at UTS.


Craig Burton

Speaker as part of 'New Views'
Craig Burton lives and works in Pittwater NSW and is director of CABCONSULTING PTY LTD.


Jacinta McCann, FAILA, FASLA, LEED AP

Speaker as part of 'New Views'
Jacinta is the Executive Vice President of AECOM


Jock Gilbert

Speaker as part of 'New Stories'
Jock coordinates the Lower Pool Design Studio stream in the Landscape Architecture program at RMIT.


Professor Margaret Somerville

Speaker as part of 'New Stories'
Margaret is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Educational Research, UWS


Liam Young

Speaker as part of 'News Signs + FILM'
Liam is an independent urbanist, designer, futurist and founder of think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today.


Kirsten Bauer

Speaker as part of 'New Techniques'
Kirsten is a Director of ASPECT Studios globally and is based in Melbourne.


Wolfgang Kessling

Speaker as part of 'New Techniques'
Wolfgang is a climate engineer and working on high comfort - low energy projects in Europe and Asia.


Jason Ho

Speaker as part of 'New Practices'
Jason Ho is a Founding Director of Urban Informality Lab, Melbourne.


Richard Weller

Keynote Speaker
Richard Weller is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.


Clive Hamilton AM

Keynote speaker 
Clive is an author, public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.


Mark Raggatt

Curator
Mark is an editor, teacher at RMIT Victoria, curator, critic and Director at ARM Architecture in Melbourne.


Prof SueAnne Ware FAILA

Curator
SueAnne is Head of School Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, NSW.


Dr Julian Bolleter

Curator 
Julian is an Assistant Professor at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at UWA.