UDAL FEBRUARY FORUM  
Thursday, 2 February 2012  

Slow Planning and Design: 
Delivering Green Infrastructure, Food In The City and Other Benefits

Presented by

John Mongard,  Christian Duell, and GreenLife

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Like the slow food movement, slow design essentially offers a ground up rather than top-down approach to city planning and design. 

This method enables a refocus on local rather than global trends and practices.  In doing so it promotes local distinctiveness and local economies and thereby offers a significant contribution global sustainability.

Hear how John Mongard has planned and delivered exciting green infrastructure, food in the city and other benefits for communities through engagement processes that reflect a 'slow planning and design' ethos.

Christian Duell will share some of the projects and public workshops aimed at increasing the 'green' scape and sustainability of Brisbane.  

The forum will conclude with organisers of the 2012 Green Life event to be held in Brisbane.  providing an overview of the event and how urban designers can get involved and make a difference. 

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Speakers 

John Mongard

John Mongard is a highly awarded landscape architect and urban innovator. As a practitioner who approaches design and landscape from a culturally enriched and environmentally responsible perspective, he has consistently worked with communities to realise dynamic and liveable places and spaces.

John Mongard Landscape Architects (JMLA) carry out the majority of its projects in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams of artists, artisans and other professionals, forging new ways of placemaking and leading Queensland's push towards culturally appropriate development.

The reconnection of food, water and natural resources through recycling, urban agriculture and water sensitive urban design are emerging priorities for John and his practice.

JMLA's approach has been consistently recognised and awarded throughout Queensland and Nationally by AILA and PIA. Most recently, John's role in the Ecovillage at Currumbin and Kingaroy Cultural Precinct have been well received and JMLA won the 2011 AILA Qld: Award of Excellence in Planning - Bingara and The Living Classroom, for Gwydir Shire Council.

Christian Duell

Christian Duell is a registered architect, musician and the director of White Light.

Through White Light, Christian explores the possibilities of ephemeral architecture and digital technology in allowing users to interact with and re-interpret their local spaces and environments.

Christian is currently based at The Edge, Digital Culture Centre, within the State Library of Queensland where he has held a position as Catalyst in Environmental Sustainability as well the Project Coordinator of Flood of Ideas.

Date and Time Thursday, 2 February 2012  5:00pm Registration, Drinks & Nibbles 5:30pm Seminar start 7:00pm Seminar finish (note: lifts lock at 6:00pm)	Venue Norton Rose Australia Level 17, 175 Eagle Street, Brisbane Thank you to our venue sponsor:
Cost  $50.00  UDAL Members $60.00  Alliance partners (PIA, AIUS, AIA, Griffith, QUT, UQ, Bond) $70.00  Non Members $22.00  Students – UT, UQ, Bond, Griffith & Retired UDAL members Registrations Registrations close:  Tuesday, 31 January 2012 Registration is via the online form only. To register, click the Event Registration tab on this website.
More Information / Contact Us For more information about the forum or UDAL, contact UDAL Executive Officer, Linda Cupitt directly on 040 272 9763 or email admin@udal.org.au

UDAL NOVEMBER FORUM  
Thursday, 10 November 2011  

Are the Cities of Perth and Brisbane creating places for people or trolls?

Presented by

Peter Edwards and Peter Monks

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Perhaps we have considered the two cities as equal third to Melbourne’s urban bones and new place initiatives and Sydney’s natural beauty and urban icons?

“Trip, trip, trap, trap… Who's that walking over my bridge?”   The forum will open with an overview of Brisbane's most rapid growing urban condition - troll habitats. The explosion of road infrastructure in the last decade has created a maze of overpasses, bridges and ring roads.  Beneath these, a mass of space void of use... and home of the trolls.   Peter Edwards (Principal, Archipelago Architects) leads a call to action – to design these forgotten spaces and nurture them into people friendly places.

Having re-designed the city, built the urban design fundamentals and delivered new urban places, Perth is now tackling the difficult issues and areas of the city. Not only have they successfully implemented the findings of Danish Urban design prophet (Jan Gehl) they have invited him back to review the results and offer more ideas. Peter Monks (Director, Planning and Development at the City of Perth) will inspire you with examples of urban design nurture and built work.  With reference to the Vision for Perth 2029, Peter will provide an overview of the how the Council is actively tackling existing urban conditions and promoting an urban design framework to promote sustainability and place making. Hw will also update us the “What If? Ideas for the City of Perth.

Visitors to Perth return impressed, wondering if it is ahead of Brisbane in creating another great Australian city.

Come along to the next UDAL forum and make your own mind up – places for people or trolls?

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Speakers 

Peter Monks 
Peter Monks is the Director of Planning and Development at the City of Perth where he has worked for the last 10 years, five as Director. 

Peter was raised in Port Hedland in the northwest of Western Australia and developed his initial interest in towns and cities by observing the development of South Hedland, a master planned Radburn style community in the tropics that was simply not appropriate for the local environment. 

Peter has undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in urban and regional planning from Curtin University. Peter lived and worked in Berlin and southern Sudan before returning to Perth to commence a career in local government town planning ranging from dealing with the conservation challenges in historic Fremantle, to the outer suburban major growth challenges at the Rockingham through to the intense scale of development and issues associated with the central city environment at Perth.

Peter Edwards

Peter Edwards is an accomplished and recognised Urbanist and a leading figure in the region’s Urban Design profession.

Peter is Director and co-founder of the new Architecture and Urban Design practice – Archipelago. With a focus on Cities, Buildings and Things, Archipelago is broad in sector but focussed in process with an interest in the alchemy of design and the power of collaboration in the making of cities.

Peter combines work on major projects with key involvement in urban design professional bodies. He is regularly sort as a design team leader, authors and facilitates design workshops, and continues to advocate publicly for better cities through urban design. Peter is a founding member and the current Vice President of the Urban Design Alliance Qld.

Date and Time Thursday, 10 November 2011  5:00pm Registration, Drinks & Nibbles 5:30pm Seminar start 7:00pm Seminar finish (note: lifts lock at 6:00pm)	Venue Norton Rose Australia Level 17, 175 Eagle Street, Brisbane Thank you to our venue sponsor:
Cost  $50.00  UDAL Members $60.00  Alliance partners (PIA, AIUS, AIA, Griffith, QUT, UQ, Bond) $70.00  Non Members $22.00  Students – UT, UQ, Bond, Griffith & Retired UDAL members Registrations Registrations close:  Tuesday, 8 November 2011 Registration is via the online form only. To register, click the Event Registration tab on this website.
More Information / Contact Us For more information about the forum or UDAL, contact UDAL Executive Officer, Linda Cupitt directly on 040 272 9763 or email admin@udal.org.au