Keynote Panels
All keynote panel discussions are part of the free public program of CAADRIA 2022 – Post-Carbon and require advance registration.
Keynote Panel 1 (Computational to Sustainable Computational)
Title: When we delivered digital architecture in Australia and what we would deliver now
Time: Monday, April 11, 2022, Blended @ Jones Street Gallery UTS & online, 5-6:30pm
This event will be livestreamed through Zoom. Advance registration is required.
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While Digital Architecture has successfully entered architecture and the built environment worldwide, how can we now approach a digital sustainable architecture? Twenty years ago, an Australian Research Council funded research into ‘Delivering Digital Architecture’ in Australia. led by Prof. Mark Burry and Prof. Mike Xie. The research focus at the time centred around the observation that “design, documentation, and off site prefabrication of numerous recent major international architectural projects, were achieved with evolving integrated 3D digital methods”. It pointed out that, at the time “local understanding and uptake of the opportunities is still very low [In Australia]”, and that joining these opportunities could result in “a huge cultural dividend to Australia from greater affordable freedom of architectural expression”. While it is arguable if digital architecture has been already fully delivered in Australia and the cultural dividend could have been cashed in, this discussion wants to focus on the future as a post carbon future. Thus it discusses with experts who aimed to deliver digital architecture at the time on how a digital sustainable architecture can be delivered over the next decade to meet 2030 carbon reduction goals.
This discussion will set the scene for the conference as it reflects and unpacks, after a short overview of “we delivered digital architecture in Australia”, current motivations, barriers and opportunities to a digital sustainable architecture. Focus in this online forum will holistically discuss research to education to practice with a national and international perspective.
Panel:
1. Prof Mark Burry (Swinburne, Melbourne, Australia)
2. Prof Mike Xie (RMIT, Melbourne, Australia)
3. Prof Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (CITA, Copenhagen, Denmark)
4. Prof Philip Yuan (Tongji, Shanghai, China)
5. Prof Areti Markopoulou (IAAC, Barcelona, Spain)
6. Louise Wotton ( Regional Computational Design Lead NZ Aurecon Wellington)
Moderator:
Prof Michael Ostwald (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)
Prof Philip Yuan
Keynote Panel 2 (Urban / Systems)
Title: The role of digital disruptors in assisting the design of resilient cities.
Time: Tuesday, April 12, 2022, Powerhouse/Virtual, 6-7pm
This event will be conducted in-person in at the The Powerhouse Museum and livestreamed through Zoom. Please indicate when registering if you will attend the event in person or join via Zoom.
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Are digital tools and platforms in the AEC industry only for developers to increase profits or do they have potential in creating an equal and just city? Over recent years AEC platforms have gained global prominence and raised millions of dollars of capital. But not only overseas, local Sydney AEC platforms have positioned themselves successfully on a global market and started interrupting the AEC sector. Focus of these platforms are in: “revolutionises the way property professionals find, assess and design sites. Transform your months’ long process into a ten minute analysis” (Archistar, 2022), “conducting site analysis in real time with architectural design” (Giraffe Technology, 2022), or to provide “an end-to-end digital platform that provides the property and construction industry with insights and clarity never experienced before” (Podium). But do they address the UN’s SDGs and help with a post-carbon future? If they do so, what tools exist for improving the urban condition? Where are future directions and initiatives in urban design and what are current and future obstacles?
The discussion in this face to face panel aims to unpack the opportunities within digital transformation and disruption of the AEC sector towards a sustainable digital approach by inviting a panel of PropTech and RealTech CEOs, sustainable experts, and community activists. We want to discuss innovation potentials through synergies between computational creativity, environmental science and digital technology and disruption. Outcomes of this discussion could contribute to pressing but interrelated issues of property ownership & public space; thermal comfort, floods, and/or bush fires; and data and/or machine learning.
Panel:
1. Rob Asher (CEO Giraffe Technology, Sydney, Australia)
2. Abbie Galvin (Government Architect NSW, Sydney, Australia)
3. Steve Fox (Principle Architectus, Sydney, Australia)
4. Dr. Ben Coorey (CEO ArchiStar, Sydney, Australia)
5. Kathlyn Looseby (CEO AACA, Sydney, Australia)
6. Amanda Wyzenbeek (Technical Director, Mott MacDonald)
Moderator:
Prof Flora Salim (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)
Amanda Wyzenbeek
Keynote Panel 3 (Materials Futures)
Title: Resilience, Resources and Consumption – Circular Economy, New Materials and Construction Methods
Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Powerhouse, 6-7pm
This event will be conducted in-person in at the The Powerhouse Museum and livestreamed through Zoom. Please indicate when registering if you will attend the event in person or join via Zoom.
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The Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) sector has a devastating effect on the environment and contributes significantly to climate change. It is responsible for almost 50% of the world’s total energy consumption and 40% of global carbon emissions. It consumes 50% of the world’s raw materials and produces 35% of its waste. Yet with rising population we need to build even more to provide housing and infrastructure for all, but with the existing impacts we cannot afford to continue building in the way we do now. Thus, there is a real and urgent need to rethink our current building culture and practices and to find solutions that allow to build more with less material and using renewable resources that create less greenhouse gases while at the same time creating high-quality outcomes.
This panel will focus on what actions are required to create a decarbonised building culture. It will discuss opportunities and challenges for responsible consumption and production and examine the potentials of new material systems, transformative technology and alternative economic business models that can reduce the environmental footprint of our industry.
Panel:
1. Dr Rumana Hossain (SMART Center, UNSW)
2. Dr Josephine Vaughan (MECLA)
3. Enrico Zara (Decarbonisation Lead, Arup)
4. Prof Peter Ralph (Director C3, UTS)
5. Chris Bickerton (BVN)
6. Dr Rebecca Huntley (writer)
7. Dr Kar Mei Tang (Chief Circular Economist, NSW Circular)
Moderator:
Prof Anna Cristina Pertierra (UTS, Sydney, Australia)
Keynote Panel 4 (Knowledge Systems and Culture)
Title: Knowledge Systems and Cultures for A New Ecology Approach
Time: Thursday, April 14, 2022, Powerhouse/Virtual, 6-7pm
This event will be conducted in-person in at the The Powerhouse Museum and livestreamed through Zoom. Please indicate when registering if you will attend the event in person or join via Zoom.
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To conclude this conference we ask: In which way can computational design, analysis and frameworks support our understanding of natural conditions in our cities, inform the planning, design, and delivery of built environment and sustainable projects – all to help humans to develop meaningful connections with Ecology, Country and Living Species?
There is evidence that increasingly, multi-expert teams collaborate to plan for events of Climate Change including fire, drought, and flooding through sustainable land and water use practices. Here recent projects range from the contribution of tree canopies to generate better climatic conditions in dense urban zones to developing guidelines and measurement systems that enable us to better understand the complex interactions and quality affordances across connected and interacting SDGs.
One can witness new approaches to cultural landscapes beyond human-centred design that consider ethical and just multispecies cohabitation and interaction. Indigenous knowledge guided by people and communities is drawn upon for valuing, respecting and working with the country, supporting health and wellbeing is one example for change. Similarly, Artificial Intelligence can provide frameworks for knowledge systems to contribute to resilient future cities. How can these topics merge into a new knowledge system to create cultures for a new ecology approach?
The discussion in this face to face panel aims to unpack the opportunities, opening crucial aspects and demands that could be addressed and further developed through current computational design methods, thinking, and tools. As the last panel in the Roundtable series, we seek to generate here discussion on and pathways for the future, and establish a platform for the CAADRIA community with researchers, experts and thinkers. We invite speakers to share their work, experiences, provocations, thought frames and reports across the fields of Indigenous Knowledge, Artificial Intelligence, Urban Heat Islands, Multispecies Justice and Resilient Communities. By addressing the many dimensions of Climate Change for a different Culture of Ecology, beyond a mere human driven or technology focused worldview.
Panel:
1. Danielle Celermajer (SEI Sydney Environmental Institute)
2. Dr Sebastian Pfautsch (WSU)
3. Jorge Chapa (GBCA Green Building Council Australia)
4. Prof Toby Walsh (Scientia Professor AI UNSW)
5. Amanda Sturgeon (Regenerative Design Lead, Mott Macdonald, Australia)
6. Michael Mossman (USyd, Associate Dean Indigeneous)
Moderator:
Prof Robyn Dowling (Usyd, Sydney, Australia)
