Session 1 - 09:15 - 10:15 AEST

Finding & Financing Sustainability: Indo-pacific Built Environment Case Studies

What drives a strong vision for holistic sustainability in a project? How is it financed? What supports and threatens its implementation? The answers and the very framing of the questions will vary with place, budget and regulation, but will certainly allude to how the various players in the built environment industry value sustainability in all its forms. This session will seek out positive examples of sustainable development as a means of finding lessons that could benefit the regional industry as a whole.

Speakers
Stephen Cairns, Future Cities Laboratory
Dr Jeremy Smith, Irving Smith Architects
Iwan Sunito, Crown Group
Emma Teifer, Assemble

Session 3 - 12:15 - 13:15 AEST

Manifesting Culture, Place & Identity In The Indo-pacific

The vernacular is often complementary to sustainable architecture and interior design. Yet in many cases these days, its manifestation tends toward the gestural. Opportunities for deeper relevance and benefit are overlooked. Similarly, sanitised and packaged versions of heritage, as well as dogmatic preservations of the past, each present their own limitations. Authentic understandings of what the vernacular has to offer the contemporary built environment can positively impact ideas of culture and how people live. This session will explore the lived experience – as opposed to the thin iconography – of culture, place and identity as manifested through a variety of project types in a spectrum of regional locations.

Speakers
Akshat Bhatt, Architecture Discipline
Richard Francis-Jones, fjmtstudio
Leone Lorrimer, GHDWoodhead
Michael Mossman, University of Sydney
Goy Zhenru, Goy Architects

Session 4 - 13:45 - 14:45 AEST

The Housing Balance: Design, Community & Economy in the Indo-pacific

Globally, strategies from one sector of commercial space design are crossing over to influence others. This is creating new opportunities and avenues for the owners, designers and users of spaces. Though many of the drivers of this strategic fluidity are borderless, the cultural inflections of particular places, and the real estate and planning contexts at play, can vary considerably and influence the outcomes. This session will investigate, through regional examples, how global currents are manifesting in the Indo-Pacific and survey the lessons that can be shared between us.

Thursday 3 June, 12:00 pm

How to Help Architects Achieve their Objectives through Clever Design

As technology, process, materials and codes change, product design needs to adapt to this new reality and architects must rely on the ability of the artisan or manufacturer to translate their bespoke ideas into a reality. In this session, we will explore how design works with process to achieve optimum outcomes for both single residences and large commercial buildings.

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Anita Panov (panovscott)
James Perry (fjmt) Tim Phillips (TILT)
Luigi Rosselli (Luigi Rosselli Architects)

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Thursday 3 June, 3:00 pm

Water Management Solutions: Future Proofing Drainage

Wise water management is integral in ensuring a successful built outcome for any project. But what is required when addressing water management and drainage? This session will address this core question and will also examine which products to use, what meets code, how drainage impacts design aesthetics and how to utilise correct systems for a more sustainable future.

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James Huggett (Everhard Industries)
Marnie Morieson (Kennedy Nolan)
Kevin Smerdon (Everhard Industries)

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