The Festival will be held in Perth and online, October 13-16, 2021. Presentations, discussions and events will inspire participants to be active agents of change through dynamic design processes and creative solutions to difficult problems.
Download the Festival Digital Booklet covering program details.
First release program - timings subject to change. All times listed below are in AWST (PERTH TIME). Please note daylight savings will have commenced in ACT, NSW, SA, TAS and VIC.
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PROGRAM HIGHTLIGHTS
9 am - 2:30 pm (approx.)
Freo Tour - Proudly supported by ACO Australia For further information about the Freo Tour, please click here. Available to our in-person registrations in Perth. Free for Festival attendees - registration essential. Limited places available.
On Demand Content Released on our Digital Event Platform including some Virtual Project Tours
4:30 pm
Online Festival Welcome Event - Draw and Sip Workshop - Proudly supported by Brickworks For further information about the Online Festival Welcome Event - Draw and Sip Workshop, please click here. Free for Festival attendees (digital and in-person) - registration essential. Limited places available.
First release program - timings subject to change. Click on the speaker name for their speaker profile and session abstract. All times listed below are in AWST (PERTH TIME). Please note daylight savings will have commenced in ACT, NSW, SA, TAS & VIC.
DAY ONE OF LIVE CONTENT
7:45 am
In Person Registration (Perth) - Collect your name tag, pack and a coffee courtesy of ACO. Digital Registration - Take the time to connect with fellow delegates in the virtual space
8:30 am
Welcome to Country Presented by a local Perth Elder
8:55 am
Spectacle and Collapse - Festival Opening Creative Directorate Introduction AILA President Welcome
9:20 am
Saving the Southwest Hotspot in the Age of Extinction Professor Kingsley Dixon, Curtin University Although southwest Australia has an unparalleled richness of plants and animals, it is now in ecological freefall. Kinsley will examine the impacts of humans and the environment and how walking together with our traditional custodians can arrest impending ecological collapse.
9:50 am
Beyond representation - taking the long view Professor James Hitchmough, University of Sheffield This presentation will reflect on Debord’s critique in his Society of the Spectacle. James will negotiate the power of representation in landscape architecture with the need to for design that considers long-term goals and ecological processes.
10:25 am
Come for the spectacle, leave with a connection Nathan Greenhill, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (WA) The spectacle of natural landscapes draws people to places where they can experience awe and wonder, away from their day-to-day lives. This presentation takes a tour through WA’s national parks to explore the role of landscape architecture in protecting these landscapes, while creating genuine connections between people and place.
11:00 am
Morning tea
11:30 am
The Spectacle of native plant species: promoting biodiversity in gardens Digby Growns, Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, WA Digby will explain how the Kings Park Plant Breeding and Development program has increased the availability, interest and use of native plant species in urban gardens and how it has a positive environmental on Australian cities.
12:00 pm
Working with country Jonathan Jones, Indigenous Artist
12:20pm
Consuming the Collapse Karen Ferry, Creative Director/Consultant Marketing the Spectacle - behaviour and value change of the masses through marketing spectacle
12:45 pm
Couch discussion Continue the conversation with a Q&A session with today’s speakers
1:30 pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Kings Park Tour Options (In-person registrations only) - Delegates will be able to select a tour in the afternoon in Kings Park. Places on each tour are limited and registration is essential. OPTION 1 - Kings Park – Behind the Scenes of propagation and plant selection Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm approx. For further information about Kings Park – Behind the Scenes of propagation and plant selection tour (OPTION 1) - please click here. Available to our in-person registrations in Perth. Free for Festival attendees - registration essential. Limited places available. OPTION 2 - Kings Park – Yorga Walk Tour | Proudly supported by Street Furniture Australia Time: 2:00pm - 3;30pm (approx) For further information about OPTION 2 - Kings Park – Yorga Walk Tour tour (OPTION 2) - please click here. Available to our in-person registrations in Perth. Free for Festival attendees - registration essential. Limited places available.
4:30pm/5:00pm
2021 AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards Join us for this special ONLINE and in-person (Perth) event while we announce the winners of the 2021 AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards. Click here to view the digital and in-person registration form
First release program - timings subject to change. All times listed below are in AWST (PERTH TIME). Please note daylight savings will have commenced in ACT, NSW, SA, TAS & VIC.
DAY TWO OF LIVE CONTENT:
8:00 am
Registration
Welcome to Day Two Ben Stockwin, AILA CEO AILA Creative Directors
8:50 am
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space
Nicole Foss, Systems Analyst As we approach limits to growth and resources, we need to look toward a future that exists within these constraints and focus on effective solutions. This presentation explores how local, small-scale community initiatives and the wealth of human connection may deliver these outcomes.
Suburban leverage points for resilient futures
Dylan Newell, Eyrie Studio Dylan will connect the threat of system collapse with practical, bottom-up actions in suburbs and streets. He will show how developing resilience in local communities can have broader global implications and outcomes.
9:45 am
Cultural burning and the liveability of suburbs Oral McGuire As a firefighter and Noongar elder, Oral has experience and a unique perspective of western firefighting and cultural burning. He will explain how traditional knowledge can be integrated into our suburbs to improve the liveability of our cities.
10:55 am
Overcoming a colonial legacy: The discourse of landscape architecture in the Middle East
Dr Jala Makhzoumi, American University of Beirut Jala will examine the physical, cultural, and ecological transformations of landscapes in Middle Eastern cities through western colonisation and showcase the potential of landscape architecture to address these disturbances by embracing values and practices that are responsive to place.
Collapse propels us forwards
Assoc. Professor Margaret Grose, University of Melbourne Margaret takes a positive stance on collapse and the role of landscape architecture. She will argue how climate change is propelling us forward to a re-evaluation, re-invention and re-engagement with landscapes and with a greater breadth of vision than ever before.
11:50 am
Couch discussion
Continue the conversation with a Q&A session with this morning’s speakers
12:30 pm
All I wanted to do was good design…but now I find my funky concrete sitting walls are cooking the planet
Do you want your projects to have the award winning spectacle but without the climate collapse? Find out about AILA’s planned climate positive design guidelines due out in February. Martin O'Dea - AILA Climate Positive Design Working Group Chair
12:40 pm
Lunch (in-person) + Trivia O’Clock + Prizes with Street Furniture Australia (online)
1:40 pm
The Spectacle of the Mundane
Darius Reznek, Karres en Brands Though it might be tempting to propose that landscape architects have the solutions for the enormous challenges of our time, Darius questions if we’re not relapsing into old mistakes. Instead, he pleas for a pragmatic futurism to balance nature and urbanity, and will illustrate this with “The Connected City” (Oberbillwerder) in Germany.
2:15 pm
Deep Spectacle, Surface Collapse: Imagining design and conservation in the proposed Yule Brook Regional Park
Daniel Jan Martin, UWA School of Design Through mapping urban hydrology and biodiversity, Daniel will explore alternate frameworks for urban development. The Yule Brook corridor will be used as a case study to illustrate how collaborative environmental planning and landscape strategies can contribute to restoration and conservation.
2:35 pm
Green Dreams: the trials and tribulations of delivering an innovative suburban open space system on Perth’s fringe
Dr Julian Bolleter, Australian Urban Design Research Centre Julian will examine and critique the barriers of implementing innovative approaches to holistic public open spaces and integrated stormwater management in new suburban development and advise on ways to overcome them future in development.
3:10 pm
Afternoon tea
3:40 pm
Competition announcement Announcing the winners of the 2021 Future Landscapes Competition
3:50 pm
Couch discussion Continue the conversation with a Q&A session with this afternoon’s speakers
Beyond Climate Grief
Dr Jonica Newby, Science Reporter In this personal presentation, Jonica will talk about landscapes as heart-places. Places that evoke strong emotional responses through personal experiences. She will explore how threats to these places can cause climate grief, and how courage and hope can help us face it and change the way we interact with the natural world.
5:10 pm
Closing remarks
5:30 pm
Festival After Party, Proudly supported by Street Furniture Australia Kick back and relax at the Street Furniture Australia Festival After Party. Following the end of sessions, stretch your legs as we make our way to The Stables Bar for an opportunity to relax, connect and celebrate. Your ticket includes drink on arrival and finger food. For further information about the Festival After Party please click here.
Available to our in-person registrations in Perth. Free for Festival attendees - registration essential. Limited places available.
Our Local Creative Committee is putting together some great tours, including a Wadjemup Tour (Rottnest Island)thanks to UrbanStone.
TOUR DETAILS
TBC
Win ferry tickets to Rottnest Island thanks to @UrbanStone! UrbanStone are giving away 3 double Ferry Tickets to Rotto for the Wadjemup Burial Ground Tour on Saturday 16 October. Our guides for the tour are Karen Jacobs and Ezra Jacobs-Smith. The tour starts with a Welcome to Country and a Sand Casting Ceremony on the beach; they discuss the significance of the Prisoner holding cell; follow the Prisoners walk to the Quod, followed by the Burial Ground, where Karen and Ezra will discuss the state wide Aboriginal engagement process and one of the outcomes; and the landscape plan in conjunction with UDLA.
The tour is free for registered attendees of the Festival of Landscape Architecture: Spectacle and Collapse, registration is essential - via the link in the bio. To win Ferry tickets simply be registered for an in-person or digital pass (WA residents only), draws will take place 4pm AWST 7 Oct 2021, 2pm 8 Oct 2021 and 2pm 11 Oct 2021.
The 2020 Festival of Landscape Architecture is taking place on Whadjuk Noongar Country. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Whadjuk Noongar Country and Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
An engaging three-day event you won't want to miss.