Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Ross Elliott’s article prompts you to rethink what the future holds for Suburbia.
Read Ross’s article here and make sure you secure your registration to the international conference The Future of Suburbia in April 2018.
Lord Mayor Graham Quirk, and past Mayors Sallyanne Atkinson, Jim Soorley, Tim Quinn and Campbell Newman discussed the key challenges and opportunities for Brisbane to celebrate the BDA’s 60th anniversary.
A recap of Brisbane You’ve Got Talent. A BDA Breakfast event held on 7th September 2017
Keynote Speaker Li Cunxin, Mao’s Last Dancer
Panel Members – Chris Saines, Director QAGOMA, Daniel Gschwind, QTIC and Steve Wilson Racing Queensland.
Sponsored by Racing Queensland.
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No one understands hard work more than Li Cunxin.
As an 11 year old desperate to escape poverty and starvation in the dying days of Mao’s regime in China, Li could not know where the opportunity would lead when he was selected to be in Madame Mao’s Beijing Dance Academy.
Fast forward 45 years and Li has chosen Brisbane and the Queensland Ballet as his home and career opportunity. Li came to Brisbane via Houston, Texas and Melbourne. Friends and colleagues were astounded that he would leave Melbourne to be the Artistic Director of the Queensland Ballet.
But Li saw a great opportunity right here. Brisbane people are innovative, smart, generous and fun. Li has brought the international ballet world to Brisbane via sell out show after sell out show.
Likewise, QAGOMA is a world class Gallery that draws huge attendee numbers. The Asia Pacific Triennial draws more visitors than the Venice Biennale. We need to spread that news.
Every day Brisbane has 40,000 overnight visitors and about the same in day visitors. Our popularity is a well kept secret….
So, what should Brisbane be famous for? This morning’s discussion revealed that we may be asking the wrong question. Brisbane has much to be famous for but we need to just get on with the hard work.
As Chris Saines said “Culture is what binds a great community together but the Arts needs infrastructure.” Alongside this, Li points out that “…success comes down to people and talent…[if] you create a community of great talent then the magic happens.”
Daniel Gschwind drew these points together by explaining that greater Brisbane has much to offer for visitors and interstate and international immigrants but we must draw these natural and built attractions together and greatly improve the connectivity and transport between them.
So, what can you do to help build a critical mass of talent that draws in infrastructure and investment to Brisbane?
Li implores us, the open, clever and innovative community of Brisbane, to be bold and build a world class legacy to leave to future Brisbane generations because the opportunity is now.
Let’s get started.
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Highlights of Day 2 of our combined conference with QShelter and The Future Housing Taskforce, Friday, June 2 include:
Half day, full day or two day passes available. BDA membership and group booking discounts apply.
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SPEAKER: Jamie Durie OAM, International award winning designer & author, brings global design excellence to the Future of Australian Housing Conference 2017
Jamie Durie has built a boutique international business based on award-winning design, that has evolved from landscape architecture into interior/exterior design and furniture. His team has created its own language to express their design ethos: ‘transterior’ – creating seamless transitions between the indoors & out. He is an international designer, the author of books and magazines, a TV host. His outlook is global, and his insights into the importance of great design in the future of Australian housing are not to be missed.
More info at https://www.jamiedurie.com/people/
SPEAKER: Paul Graham, Chief Economist at CSIRO Energy Flagship gives us his energy predictions and how they will make fundamental changes to the future of housing.
Paul Graham’s proactive keynote address will challenge not only the way we think about how energy will be supplied to housing in the near future, but also how this will fundamentally change the way housing is used, designed, marketed, valued, renovated, and built. The transformational change that new energy innovations will bring need to be understood by any business that has any involvement in the residential markets.
More info at
http://people.csiro.au/G/P/Paul-Graham
SPEAKER: Kerry Shepherd, Co-founder, Currumbin Eco-village is a great example of making your housing dreams come true.
Can something you dream up in your garage actually happen? The dream that Kerry Shepherd and her husband Chris Walton had in 1990 in their garage at Budds Beach Surfer Paradise did. Kerry’s inspirational story about how their dream for the Eco-village at Currumbin turned into an multi-award winning community of over 300 hundred residents is not to be missed.
More info at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerry-shepherd-b4b24115/?ppe=1
https://theecovillage.com.au/
SPEAKER: Dr Josh Byrne, The ABC presenter and Director of Josh Byrne & Associates gives us real-time performance data so we can all understand the benefits of high-performance housing.
Dr Josh Byrne, The ABC presenter and academic has an integrated monitoring system, comprised of around 70 individual channels of data logging. This includes sensors to monitor local weather conditions such as temperature, wind, humidity, rainfall and solar radiation; internal room temperatures, as well as concrete slab, ceiling, roof cavity and roof surface temperatures; metering of all water sources (mains, rainwater, greywater, and bore); as well as gas and electrical supply (grid and rooftop PV system) and their respective sub-metered usage. This will enable a detailed thermal and operational energy footprint to be determined for the complete site, including the energy footprint of all water supplies, for example, thereby informing the performance of best practice sustainable design to be analysed and reported.
More info at
http://joshshouse.com.au/
http://joshshouse.com.au/about-the-project/house-performance-research/
SPEAKER: Jeremy McLeod, Breathe Architecture, and on the board of Directors of Nightingale shares 12 essential measures that make Nightingale Housing unique
Jeremy McLeod, Breathe Architecture and Nightingale Housing will show how the current status quo model primarily aims to deliver buildings with maximum financial yields, rather than focusing on the people who will live there or their impact on the environment and local communities. Jeremey will show how Nightingale Housing is uniquely placed to help deliver tangible, meaningful, visitable and assessable built outcomes across a range of housing types.
More info at
http://nightingalehousing.org/our-people/
http://nightingalehousing.org/model
Join us for a lively debate about the future of housing and indeed if every Australian can actually achieve the dream of owning a home.
The for team will be lead by Kevin Doodney
Team against lead by Rachel Watson
The Moderator is Tim Cox
SPEAKERS: Participants in The Property Games
Is winning in the property market, just a simple matter of education? We catch up with the participants in the Property Games and find out how they are achieving amazing success, having had zero financial resources and a very basic knowledge of how property works.
For more information visit. http://www.realestate.com.au/news/winning-the-property-game-just-a-matte…
SPEAKER: The Hon Chris Bowen MHR, Member for McMahon, Shadow Federal Treasurer, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen’s policies which will create more housing for more people
Some boffins have Federal Labor pinned to win the next Federal election. If so, the Chris Bowen may well be Treasurer, and his views on the future of housing, and the Commonwealth’s role in shaping and delivering federal policy will be of critical importance to any person who has an active interest in the future of Australia’s housing. The Palaszczuk Government has called on the Commonwealth to protect Queenslanders by providing long-term certainty for housing and homelessness funding agreements.
SPEAKER: Harry Carrick, Tara Consulting shows us how to utilise the NDIS to create independent housing in the future
Harry Carrick is a Director of Tara Consulting and provides independent advisory and review services to the property development and infrastructure sectors across Australia. He works extensively with Multicap, and his experience in delivering bespoke independent housing for people with disabilities provides him with unique and informative insights in delivering this housing via the NDIS.
SPEAKER: Steve Persson, CEO, The Big Issue introduces the Homes for Homes concept which could be the initiative that changes everything for the homeless
Steve Persson is the CEO of The Big Issue, and will be making a major announcement at the conference about the Homes for Home initiative – Homes for Homes raises new funding to tackle homelessness through a tax deductible donation on the sale of registered properties. The funds are invested to increase the supply of social and affordable dwellings.
SPEAKER: Hon. Mick de Brenni MP, Minister for Housing and Public Works takes centre stage on the future of Australian housing
The Hon Mick de Brenni wants to invest in innovative ideas that can help transform communities and improve outcomes right along the housing continuum. He’s stated that housing creates jobs through the construction phase, but affordable housing also supports ongoing employment. “It’s much easier to secure and maintain employment or complete education when you have safe, stable accommodation to live in.”
There will be a number of walk through housing designs and innovation exhibitors in the main hall.
Half day, full day or two day passes available. BDA membership discounts apply.
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