IMAGINING THE FUTURE: OUR CITIES

The 1994 Spring Season at the ecoversity
October 12 to November 2

Facilitated by ITF in association with the Australian Conservation Foundation and Radio 3RRR's Earth Bulletin. Presented by Merrill Findlay.

[See also What's good urban design? - an ecoversity workshop in St Kilda 1996.]

1. October 12, 1994
WHAT WORKS FOR PEOPLE AND THE BIOSPHERE?
with Tricia Caswell, executive director, Australian Conservation Foundation; architect Rob Adams, manager of Melbourne City Council's Urban & Architecture Division; and activist Terry White.

2. October 19 1994
NURTURING A GREENER DESIGN AESTHETIC
with architect Greg Burgess who designed the award winning Brambuk Living Koorie Cultural Centre and Box Hill Community Arts Centre; researcher David Craven from RMIT's Key Centre for Design; and urban planner Nathan Alexandra from Melbourne City Council.

3. October 26 1994
TRANSFORMING PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
with Dimity Reed, School of Architecture, RMIT; Allan Rodger, Architecture Department, Melbourne University who was instrumental in preparing a global Declaration of interdependence for a sustainable future; and public transport activist Wayne Burt from the Town and Country Planning Association.

4. November 2 1994
ENHANCING COMMUNITY LIFE
with Brian Howe, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Minister for Housing and Regional Development and sociologist; architect Anne Cunningham of Cunningham and Keddie Pty Ltd which specialises in community sensitive design; and Graham Dunkley, author, social activist and economist.

Photo above: Guest speakers, Brian Howe (in shirt and tie), Anne Cunningham (right) and Graham Dunkley, with ecoversity designer, Rosemary Simon (let) at the forum on community life. By Ponch Hawkes, November 2, 1994.

5. November 9 1994
CITIES OF THE FUTURE
A look at some of the most progressive new urban developments in Australia with Chris Harris, Greenpeace Australia, on Greenpeace’s broad vision of a sustainable city; Leon Byass from the South Australian Economic Development Corporation, discussing the Newhaven village development in Adelaide; Kim McCallum from the Homebush Bay Corporation talking about the Olympics site development on Sydney Harbour; Ross Mellor from Habitat Melbourne talking about the future of the region west of the Yarra River; and Jan Schapper from the Department of Environmental Planning talking about her team's proposal for a matrix of urban villages in the Jerrabomberra Valley near Canberra. With a long distance contribution about sustainable cities from Gerald Smith, landscape architect, California Polytechnic State University, USA.