Regenerative Design and Urban Landscapes
About this event
In a recent Ted Talk, Arup's SE Asia, Cities Leader Chintan Raveshia spoke of the rapid growth of urbanisation since industrialisation and the "tipping point" we have now reached in our climate crisis.
Raveshia argued that for real "climate progress" designers need to think beyond "sustainability" and establish more ambitious goals.
This is achievable, he argues, "... if we can design our cities and buildings so that humans and nature cohabit and coevolve together (and not just co-exist)...."
This concept, known as restorative, or regenerative design (RD), is predicated around giving back to nature the resources we use in the process of what we produce, embracing new paradigms that enable a rapid shift towards zero-impact, and a transition to net positive environmental outcomes and ecological gains.
RD asks us to consider how we design our cities and their relationship with nature - can we design buildings that also help us to provide food and energy? Can we live in city where access to basic needs is within a 10-minute walk? Can we integrate roads with urban parks and spaces for the public that accommodate as wide a variety of users as possible, both human and, non.
Equally important is what we can do as a collective of communities at the micro level - our day-to-day decision making around the clothes we buy, the food we eat, the cars we drive, the rubbish we produce and how we live.
What do we all need to do to go "beyond sustainable"
Join our panel of leading architects, landscapers and planners discuss how they are applying regenerative design principles and embracing digital processes to inform design decisions and measure the outcomes.
Some of the areas that are discussed include:
The role of landscape in response to climate resilience.
Going beyond sustainable & into regenerative
Principles, techniques and statutory considerations in undertaking regenerative design within landscapes (incorporating Heritage landscapes)
Measuring regenerative design impact in urban settings
Analysis of key steps to achieving carbon positive landscapes
Managing change in heritage landscapes through regeneration
Living system - principles, implementation at urban scale, and in detail projects
About this event
In a recent Ted Talk, Arup's SE Asia, Cities Leader Chintan Raveshia spoke of the rapid growth of urbanisation since industrialisation and the "tipping point" we have now reached in our climate crisis.
Raveshia argued that for real "climate progress" designers need to think beyond "sustainability" and establish more ambitious goals.
This is achievable, he argues, "... if we can design our cities and buildings so that humans and nature cohabit and coevolve together (and not just co-exist)...."
This concept, known as restorative, or regenerative design (RD), is predicated around giving back to nature the resources we use in the process of what we produce, embracing new paradigms that enable a rapid shift towards zero-impact, and a transition to net positive environmental outcomes and ecological gains.
RD asks us to consider how we design our cities and their relationship with nature - can we design buildings that also help us to provide food and energy? Can we live in city where access to basic needs is within a 10-minute walk? Can we integrate roads with urban parks and spaces for the public that accommodate as wide a variety of users as possible, both human and, non.
Equally important is what we can do as a collective of communities at the micro level - our day-to-day decision making around the clothes we buy, the food we eat, the cars we drive, the rubbish we produce and how we live.
What do we all need to do to go "beyond sustainable"
Join our panel of leading architects, landscapers and planners discuss how they are applying regenerative design principles and embracing digital processes to inform design decisions and measure the outcomes.
Some of the areas that are discussed include:
The role of landscape in response to climate resilience.
Going beyond sustainable & into regenerative
Principles, techniques and statutory considerations in undertaking regenerative design within landscapes (incorporating Heritage landscapes)
Measuring regenerative design impact in urban settings
Analysis of key steps to achieving carbon positive landscapes
Managing change in heritage landscapes through regeneration
Living system - principles, implementation at urban scale, and in detail projects
About this event
In a recent Ted Talk, Arup's SE Asia, Cities Leader Chintan Raveshia spoke of the rapid growth of urbanisation since industrialisation and the "tipping point" we have now reached in our climate crisis.
Raveshia argued that for real "climate progress" designers need to think beyond "sustainability" and establish more ambitious goals.
This is achievable, he argues, "... if we can design our cities and buildings so that humans and nature cohabit and coevolve together (and not just co-exist)...."
This concept, known as restorative, or regenerative design (RD), is predicated around giving back to nature the resources we use in the process of what we produce, embracing new paradigms that enable a rapid shift towards zero-impact, and a transition to net positive environmental outcomes and ecological gains.
RD asks us to consider how we design our cities and their relationship with nature - can we design buildings that also help us to provide food and energy? Can we live in city where access to basic needs is within a 10-minute walk? Can we integrate roads with urban parks and spaces for the public that accommodate as wide a variety of users as possible, both human and, non.
Equally important is what we can do as a collective of communities at the micro level - our day-to-day decision making around the clothes we buy, the food we eat, the cars we drive, the rubbish we produce and how we live.
What do we all need to do to go "beyond sustainable"
Join our panel of leading architects, landscapers and planners discuss how they are applying regenerative design principles and embracing digital processes to inform design decisions and measure the outcomes.
Some of the areas that are discussed include:
The role of landscape in response to climate resilience.
Going beyond sustainable & into regenerative
Principles, techniques and statutory considerations in undertaking regenerative design within landscapes (incorporating Heritage landscapes)
Measuring regenerative design impact in urban settings
Analysis of key steps to achieving carbon positive landscapes
Managing change in heritage landscapes through regeneration
Living system - principles, implementation at urban scale, and in detail projects
Meet the Experts
Chris Madigan | Arup
Chris Madigan is a registered and chartered landscape architect and the Australasia landscape architecture skills leader at Arup. Chris’s work covers all aspects of landscape planning, assessment and design across a wide range of scales - from regional strategies and concepts through to detailed design and contract administration. He brings a genuine passion for the delivering regenerative, nature based and evidence led designs solutions to his projects.
Claire Broun | JMD Design
Claire is a registered landscape architect who advocates for a living systems approach to planning & design. Alongside her project work Claire is researching Australian landscape function in broad scale agricultural landscapes, focusing on holistic living systems that benefit health, rehydration and climate regulation. As one of JMDd’s directors, she is particularly committed to bringing regenerative design into the Civic, with the idea of “the public” as a space that accommodates as wide a variety of users as possible, both human and non.
Michael Cook | Lovell Chen
Michael Cook is a registered landscape architect and senior associate at Lovell Chen. His practice addresses the assessment, management and conservation of public and private landscapes, gardens and park reserves, modernist architectural sites and other designed places, and historic infrastructure and industry.
CPD - Participation in this 2-hour webinar will deliver 2 formal CPD points.
Learning outcomes - At the conclusion of this webinar attendees will be able to explain the difference between sustainable and regenerative design, list the key drivers to achieve carbon positive landscapes, explain measures to minimise carbon in projects and outline the how landscape can support the climate resilience
AACA Competencies: Project Initiation and Conceptual Design PC 31 & PC35
The webinar will include time for Q&A with our speakers. Written CPD questions will be circulated prior to the event. Send your responses to CPD questions to mark@meccaevents.com.au for the issue of a certificate of completion. Keep your receipt, completed questions and certificate for your CPD records.
For more information, contact Mark Gledhill - mark@meccaevents.com.au
