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Six talks over two days, 23 speakers… Join us for an enlightening look at new ways of thinking, and the work of the exceptional creatives that we have amongst us.
Essential natural spaces; landscape design trends
10.00am – 11.00am, 5 November
Recent shifts in putting mature gardens on top of and on the sides of buildings, amazing public terraces and expansions of rooftop gardens for residential and commercial structures all demonstrate the changes taking place in our essential outdoor spaces. In our gardening-friendly tropical and sub-tropical climate, we are seeing city wide localised neighbourhood farming and urban design growing the areas people can access for recreation. This design in landscapes is so important to our well being, as is home and community-gardening. It is essential to think about the contribution to people’s well being in designing outdoor spaces. What should we think about in this context?
SPEAKERS
Simon White, Head of Design, Aria Property Group
Cathryn Chatburn, Director, Urban Enquiry
Damian Thompson, Director, Lat27
Chair: Natalie Hoitz, Director, Design, Urbis
Book talk – Brisbane Bricks
11.15am – 12.00pm, 5 November
Brisbane Bricks is a photographic celebration of brick buildings in Brisbane comprising over 170 photographs, a short history of brick manufacture in Brisbane, and informative notes on selected buildings.
While roaming the streets of Brisbane the authors, Joanne and Virginia, captured some old favourites and discovered the new and unusual. In his foreword Professor Michael Keniger writes that the visual essay of Brisbane Bricks reveals “the remarkable variety of ways with which brick has been used to underpin and enrich the robust character of the city.”
Brisbane Bricks not only recognises Brisbane’s architectural heritage but also encourages an appreciation of contemporary construction. The authors’ intention is for this distinctive and eclectic photographic narrative to be inspirational as well as nostalgic
SPEAKERS
Joanne Heath, Photographer
Virginia Russell, Architect & Photographer
Chair: Tim Bennetton, Director, Tim Bennetton Architects
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Larger projects, sports, transport and cultural
12.15pm – 1.15pm, 5 November
Large projects with the ‘wow’ factor in streetscapes, as art in public places, or transforming entire neighbourhoods, require special teams, planning and experience to work at scale. Our guests discuss current and past projects, and how to balance activity and uncertainty in the current environment. We discuss the essential nature of art and design that continues to have meaning and function, even as everything changes. Looking at the impacts of sports stadiums, we focus on design and participation as also ask more broadly how larger projects impact communities. Hear about the long journey in the design of Cross River Rail and its input into our whole-of-city experiences in transport, cultural interaction, and sports participation.
SPEAKERS
Keith Allen, Principal, Hassell Studio
Paul Henry, Managing Director APAC, Populous
Dan Tobin, Founder and Creative Director, UAP
Chair: Malcolm Middleton, State Architect, Queensland Government
Flourishing Indigenous design
1.30pm – 2.30pm, 5 November
Indigenous design, as many people understand it still, is a homogenous art form. The community is growing in its appreciation of the nuanced design differences between artists and peoples from different areas on Country. There has also been a steady flourishing of both the representation of Indigenous design and images embedded into structures, as public art, and of architects who identify as Indigenous, creating new structures. Growing mainstream interest and use of Indigenous designs also brings up questions of meaning, intention, ownership and replication, proper use, and acknowledgment. Hear about the key things to know about when proposing to collaborate with Indigenous designers. Listen to examples of great process and outcomes, that will see the continuation of the extraordinary growth of Indigenous art and design into the future.
SPEAKERS
Carroll Go-Sam, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Queensland
Susan Beetson, Research Academic, University of Queensland
Georgia Birks, Associate, Myers Ellyett
Chair: Kelly Greenop, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Queensland
Sympathetic Neglect, Minjerribah’s built culture
11.30pm – 12.20pm, 6 November
Without doubt, a community of island-sensitive architectural crafts people, many now locals, has made an impact. In a place where the point is not to compete, but to work with the surroundings, Minjerribah architecture is maturing. Counterculture, the absence of uber sleek giant spaces, and the honesty and intimacy of smaller timber spaces all articulate Minjerribah’s old and new school.
SPEAKERS
Shaun Lockyer, Director, Shaun Lockyer Architects
Paul Butterworth, Director, Paul Butterworth Architect
Justin O’Neill, Principal, O’Neill Architecture
Chair: Sarah Briant, Director, Quirk Architecture
Loving our local heritage
1.30pm – 2.30pm, 6 November
We are increasingly becoming tourists in our own backyards, wanting to experience local stories. We want to know more about local heritage and our Indigenous culture. Aboriginal environmental knowledge and knowledge of the places that make up the fabric our daily lives is becoming easier to access through Indigenous cultural tourism experiences. Hear about the work of industry leaders, The Black Card as they navigate the landscape. Some of our strongest memories, impacting the way we live today, include flooding events. Hear about the ways Brisbane as we know it today has been influenced by major events of the past, environmental and social. Hear more about the social history of the colony of Brisbane, and the archaeological finds discovered in Cross River Rail excavations. Knowing these stories becomes a key part of how we experience Brisbane.
SPEAKERS
Cameron Harvey, Qld Regional Manager, Niche Environment & Heritage
Mundanara Bayles, Founder, The Black Card
Thom Blake, Historian
Margaret Cook, Lecturer in History, Sunshine Coast University
Chair: Loretta Ryan, ABC Brisbane radio Presenter
All times listed at AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Our thanks go out to all our speakers in this series, for their unique contributions.
Brisbane Open House acknowledges support of Super Ordinary for the venue to broadcast of this program.
Proudly supported by The Committee for Brisbane.
Sessions recorded and made available on our YouTube channel soon.