Events History
The Centre for Subtropical Design is involved in various activities that promote design for the subtropical lifestyle.
2008 Events
The Green Building & Design 2008 Conference
RMIT Centre for Design collaborated with Curtin University of Technology, University of South Australia and the Centre for Subtropical Design, to bring you the Green Building & Design 2008. The Conference featured cutting edge ‘green’ building design and construction was an event that informed and inspired practitioners to go further with thier own initiatives. Read More...
Delegates were: Architects, urban designers and landscape architects, interior designers, developers, building owners, constructors, strategic and statutory planners, ESD Consultants and engineers, facilities and asset managers, environmental officers, local councillors and more.
Dates:
Brisbane: 14th - 15th May
Melbourne: 16th - 17th April
Sydney: 30th April - 1st May
Adelaide: 28th - 29th May
Perth: 4th - 5th June
2007 Events
BDA Super Studio - Brisbane 2057
On 23 November 2007 the Brisbane Development Association (BDA) held SUPER STUDIO – BRISBANE 2057 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Participants were invited to imagine the future of Brisbane in 50 years time.
In association with the BDA, the event was proudly sponsored by the South Bank Corporation and Urbis, supported by the Centre for Subtropical Design and the Urban Design Alliance (Queensland), and included participants from the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University.
Councillor Helen Abrahams presented Amalie Wright, the winner of the 2007 mecu Travel Bursary, with the $10,000 bursary to study sustainable design in the subtropical cities of her choice.
Hearing the city - 4 September 2007
Presented by the Centre for Subtropical Design as part of Riverfestival
Riverfestival is an initiative of Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government
When • Tuesday 4 September 2007
Where • State Library of Queensland: Auditorium 1
Cost • Free Time • 1:30pm (for a 2pm start) – 5pm
Hearing the city will provided an 'auditory' filter for the interpretation of qualities of our physical environment. Hearing the city seeked to 'listen' to the natural and built world and to understand our present, and imagine future, aural landscapes.
The Brisbane River Audio Stream
Prominent local sound artists and QUT architectural students developed a set of evocative sound collages that reflect the changing qualities of place as the river weaves through the subtropical urban fabric.
Jointly curated by Leigh Shutter, Senoir Lecturer at QUT's school of design, and Room40's Lawrence English, these sound collages were incorporated into the Brisbane River Audio Stream, an installation of interactive sound works placed along an abstracted river course meandering through the Infozone at the State Library of Queensland.
BDA Breakfast - 24 April 2007
The Brisbane Development Association hosted the Centre for Subtropical Design at an industry breakfast on Tuesday 24 April 2007, sponsored by the Brisbane City Council. Guest speakers were:
Rosemary Kennedy, Director of the Centre for Subtropical Design at QUT summarised knowledge built at the Subtropical Cities 2006 conference and outlined guiding subtropical design principles which are critical to the future of the Brisbane City/Region.
Michael Papageorgiou, Manager, City Planning at Brisbane City Council, discussed how policy and regulatory mechanisms are supporting emerging subtropical urbanism.
The paper, City Designed for Subtropical Living- carrying forward the momentum from Subtropical Cities 2006 is an edited version of Rosemary Kennedy’s presentation.
The Centre for Subtropical Design has begun planning for its next international conference, Subtropical Cities 2008.
To read Rosemary Kennedy's paper from this event Click Here
Seeing The City- 7 March 2007
Seeing the city explored the qualities of shape, form, scale, height, colour, light and shade of the Brisbane and South East Queensland area, recognising, understanding, and engaging with the particular visual qualities of this subtropical city and region. The workshop helped participants to develop a heightened sensory awareness of the unique visual character of our urban and regional environment, and in turn establish principles and imagine futures that will capture and engage with these attributes. Contemporary life has distanced us from a visceral knowledge of our living environments; we have lost the emotional and sensory engagement with the world known in the past.
Seeing the city reawakened that half remembered experiential understanding of place and provided intellectual and creative guidance to reframe our conceptions of our local landscapes and built environment.
To view events that were held in previous years please select one of the following links or read below for past 2007 events.
2004 CSD Events
2005 CSD Events
2006 CSD Events
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