17 – 19 March
Advancing a sustainable future: strategies for cross-disciplinary practice around the Indian Ocean
Challenging issues – limited resources – innovative solutions
WHEN: Wed 17 to Friday 19 March, 9 am to 5 pm
WHERE: University of Technology Sydney
Jones Street Building 10, Level 2,
Room 460 (17 March)
Room 240 (18 & 19 March)
Download the full program here [pdf]
Register your attendance here
THEMES:
Day 1: Strategies for Sustainable Futures: building, infrastructure and technologies for social justice
Day 2: Rethinking Environmental Histories
Day 3: Voices & Movements on environmental change
SPEAKERS include:
Ashok Lall on Innovations in low energy urban architecture; Hoysall Chanakya on Technologies for sustainability; Judith Carney and Ed Wilmsen on Africa and trans-oceanic ecological exchanges; Cynthia Mitchell on Transdisciplinary strategies for sustainability; Debal Singha Roy on movements for environmental justice; Stephanie Jones on Law, history and environmental sovereignty; Haripriya Rangan on ecologies on the move: Africa, India, Australia ….
and Heather Goodall on how to use memory and oral history for sustainability research; Shankar Sankaran and Chris Riedy on strategies for imagining the future; Sarath Mataraaachchi on post-tsunami planning in Sri Lanka; Ian Manock on disaster management in Bangladesh; Leena Thomas on developing build environment for climate change; Prasanthi Hagare on investigating culturally-appropriate strategies for water and waste management in Indigenous communities; Jade Herriman on global deliberative democracy on global warming; James Goodman on contesting climate policy; Bill Milne-Holme on sustainability research in Laos and Thailand; Juliet Willets and Naomi Carrad on sustainable infrastructure in rapid development situations; Dharma Hagare on planning sustainable urban water systems; Nick McClean on Protected areas and Environmental Justice, India & Australia; Jodi Frawley on the politics of ‘invasive’ plant circulations; Thom van Dooren on the power of narratives in making extinctions visible.
For further information, please contact:
Heather Goodall (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UTS): Heather.Goodall@uts.edu.au
Prasanthi Hagare (Civil & Environmental Engineering, UTS): phagare@eng.uts.edu.au
Leena Thomas (School of Architecture, DAB, UTS): leena.thomas@uts.edu.au
School of Architecture, UTS :: Engineering & IT, UTS :: Arts & Social Sciences, UTS :: Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS :: School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Monash.
