Student Roundtable... back for another year

The Third City sees a return from the AU+NZ student body sharing varying approaches to landscape architecture through coursework, geographic location and cultural idiosyncrasies. Again we will be exploring the theme of the Festival and Sydney as an evolving metropolis bringing together our ideas and the multiple ways one might conceive of landscape and the issues we face today.

We will be asking ourselves and the audience how landscape can integrate and expand its framework more broadly into a city’s population and more deeply into the vernacular spaces and habits of the individuals and groups which compose it. We see a future where landscape architects can play a key role on the front-line of global warming and urbanisation but we must work towards opening more universal sites of intervention, new surfaces of interface between nature and the cultures that oversee it.

The AU+NZ student body is a fantastic opportunity to link and network with some of the brightest minds in the field and we thank AILA, our universities and the industry for the opportunity to convene again. As students we inhabit an interlude of becoming, a space of process and reflection, a place to test and experiment and focus on the big issues that are quite often stifled upon entering the neo-liberal frameworks of work-life or academia.

There is a lot to be gained through these encounters, when networks are created and dialogue is explored, and this is what we intend to do.

An exciting year awaits…

Ben Hardy-Clements 
Student Roundtable convener
Student representative, 2017 Festival Coordinating Committee

Details about the 2017 Student Roundtable will be made available soon. Visit Festival Events for the latest information.