QLD Regional Symposium: Our Regional Futures
QLD Regional Symposium: Our Regional Futures
 

QLD Regional Symposium: Our Regional Futures

27th - 29th of October
This is an in-person event in Yeppoon and Rockhampton 
Virtual registrations for the presentation livestream is available

Overview

The 2022 Queensland Regional Symposium, Regional Futures: A Collaborative Perspective’ take place on Darumbal Country, in the coastal town of Yeppoon in our great Central Queensland Region. The name Yeppoon is believed to mean “the place where the waters meet” in the Darumbal language – a most suitably named location for our symposium, which will explore ideas and possibilities presented by the past, present and emerging best practice examples in the regions. 

Regional practice requires agile and collaborative mindsets, which provides the foundations for transdisciplinary practice and creative solutions to stakeholder engagement. Collaborations in and across the regions encompass large, medium and small practices that readily draw on effective engagement with local governments, Traditional Owners, affiliated professionals, local communities and suppliers. Recent times have put a focus on the importance of such collaborative practice, whether we operate in a remote community, a regional centre, or a state capital. 

The recent health and frequent climate disasters  such as the pandemic and the flooding across eastern Australia  have revealed the need to rethink and reconsider new ways of designing and perceiving architectural outcomes. Is the future indeed Regional? Practices, whether small, medium or large need to be empowered/equipped to reimagine built outcomes with forward thinking best practice approaches by examining the current social, economic, cultural, climatological, political and population shift  issues and what these future challenges pose.

Real stories.

Real people.

This symposium offers opportunities for CPD  presentations, case studies, and workshops conducted by Queensland and National architects aligned with the new key areas of the NSCA 2021, for you to explore the main themes of Sustainability, First Nations Perspectives, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Business of Architecture; and Heritage and Conservation.

These themes will be understood through the practice of regional architecture and architects, and the possibilities these suggest beyond practice in the regions. This will provide an opportunity to learn from, celebrate and acknowledge Queensland’s Regional Architecture. This immersive knowledge sharing and learning experience at Yeppoon, with excursions to nearby Rockhampton and surrounds will be a two-day event including a series of talks, presentations, lectures, workshops and site tours.

Program Thursday 27 October

Thursday 27 October
2.00-3.00 PM Tour of Rockhampton CBD
Guided walking tour around Rockhampton CBD with Brian Hooper, Colin Strydom and Carl Brown.


3.00-4.00 PM Lindsay & Kerry Clare tour of RMoA
Guided visit to newly opened Rockhampton Museum of Art (RMOA) with Lindsay and Kerry Clare, Directors at Clare Design, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and Sydney.

4.30-5.30 PM Rockhampton Customs House
Speaker - Don Watson
Adjunct Professor University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane
2021 Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal-winning architect, architectural historian and academic.
Topic:
ON YOUR MARK
GET SET
GO!
Don Watson will consider five examples of getting started in Central Queensland:
recognizing the contribution made by Qld architects
the Rockhampton innovation, outside studding and some precursors
the foundation in Rockhampton of a practice which became national
the Custom House to initiate the Queensland practice of a former Sydney architect
the entry of women into Australian architectural practice. 


6.00-10.00 PM Opening Event at RMOA
Professor Cameron Bruhn will lead the Q&A session with highly regarded architects Lindsay and Kerry Clare, Directors at Clare Design. This session will be guided by questions about challenges and opportunities faced by small regional practices in Australia; and the ability of the regional practice to engage, collaborate, innovate and enrich Australian architecture. Clare Design collaborated with Brian Hooper and Conrad Gargett on the design of the recently completed Rockhampton Museum of Art. 

Program Friday 28 October

Yeppoon Town Hall for Conference Day
Friday 28 October
9.00 - 10.45 AM Session 1
Theme: Architectural works that elevate and promote Australia’s regions.
Topic 1: Stories from the Edge
Peta Heffernan, Co-founding Director of LIMINAL, will share how living on a creative island informed the Studio's creation, collaborations and bespoke outcomes with a global outlook. Key to LIMINAL's philosophy is curating opportunities that spark the imaginative potential of a project that speaks of its place and community, tuned to making a positive difference.  As a result, people and place underpin LIMINAL's approach to shaping their culture and processes. Through sharing projects that have different regional interactions, Peta will reveal how LIMINAL's "convivial collaboration", coupled with the significance of place, has shaped the studio's philosophy driving their project processes.
Topic 2: The same but different.
Peter Williams, Founding Director of Williams Boag Architects (WBa), will provide a professional reflection on why practice in the regions feels different to the practice in the metropolitan context. By using case studies of projects delivered by WBA over the decades, Peter will contribute to a better understanding of relationships between the brief, context and reality of architectural project development. Further, he will share his insight into the meaning and criteria of successful architectural design in regional contexts; and illuminate specific aspects of regional practice that may not be experienced in the not regional work. 

11.15 - 1.00 PM Session 2
Theme: Australian architects working across remote Australia and the Asia Pacific Region
Topic 1: A changing engagement: PTW and the Asia Pacific in 2022
Diane Jones, Executive Director at PTW International, will reflect on practice-building, and explain how the well-being and professional aspirations of PTW staff have altered the way they now engage in overseas projects. Further, she will look in detail at the construction phase of the courtrooms of the Waigani National Courts (designed in collaboration with Peddle Thorp, Brisbane) and address the challenges presented by a specialist building type, and requirements for qualities and precision.
Topic 2: iph - Architectural Acupuncture in an Ancient Land.
Adrian Iredale, Founding Director of IPH, will presents significant projects designed by IPH for regional and rural locations. Adrian will explore the complex parameters that influence the outcomes of our regionally based projects. We will explore the impact of recent and ancient history and the role that architecture may have to help provide a voice for minority groups. He will share experiences in delivery architecture that rejecting the idea of ‘signature style’ and seek to response the unique local conditions and contribute to environmental, social and cultural sustainability.
The Q&A session will be curated by Michael Keniger

2.00 - 3.00PM Keynote session with Kerstin Thompson
Kerstin Thompson will present three selected projects – small, medium and large – completed in regional Victoria and NSW. Narrating a series of images, Kerstin will offer insights into the characters, collaborations, contexts and considerations behind the design processes and built outcomes with an emphasis on the positive legacies of these projects for their clients and the wider public.

3.00 - 3.30PM Afternoon Tea

3.30 - 4.45PM Session 3 | Concluding Panel Discussion
Topic: Our regional future: Collaborative perspectives.
A panel discussion about the role of architects, planners, and elected officials in shaping the future of regional Australia. 
Moderator – Jennifer Michelmore, Chief Executive, THI
Panellists - Ed Johnson, Cairns Regional Council, Leah Lang, Queensland Government Architect, Russel Claus, Livingston Shire Council, Kirsty Volz, Queensland University of Technology

4.45 - 5.00 PM Concluding Remarks Concluding Remarks Michael Keniger.

6.00 - 10.00 PM Dinner at Alley Restaurant We conclude the day with a dinner at Alley Restaurant in Yeppoon.

Program Saturday 29 October

Saturday 29 October
9.00 - 12.00 PM Capricorn Coast Bus Tour
The tour starts with a walk guided by Brian Hooper and Colin Strydom visiting: Yeppoon Art Gallery Yeppoon Foreshore and Amenities Block Yeppoon Lagoon Rocks Bar & Restaurant.
The second part of the tour starts from the Yeppoon Lagoon head and takes in the Coastal sights including: Wreck Point Lookout Rosslyn Bay Harbour and volcanic headland Emu Park including coastal boardwalk, and Anzac Memorial Back through Cawarral and into Surf Lakes Return to Lake Mary and then head into Rockhampton or Yeppoon.. 

Creative Director Professor Cameron Bruhn


Professor Cameron Bruhn
Dean and Head of School, University of Queensland

Prior to this appointment he was the editorial director of Architecture Media, where his role included the custodianship of the centenarian magazine Architecture Australia. Cameron holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Queensland and a practice-based PhD from RMIT University. He was a co-creative director of the 2015 Australian Festival of Landscape Architecture: This Public Life and the 2016 Australian National Architecture conference: How Soon is Now. In 2016 he initiated Queensland’s Asia Pacific Architecture Festival. Cameron is co-editor of The Forever House, The Terrace House and The Apartment House, books published by Thames and Hudson. His most recent project is MMXX,a landmark volume for Thames and Hudson that documents significant architecture in Australia in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Cameron is a Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.

 

Speaker Kerstin Thompson

Kerstin Thompson

PRINCIPAL + DIRECTOR Kerstin Thompson Architects


 

Kerstin Thompson is an Australian architect, born in Melbourne in 1965. She is the principal of Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA), a Melbourne-based architecture, landscape and urban design practice with projects in Australia and New Zealand. She is also Professor of Design at the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University and Monash University.

Speaker Peta Heffernan

Peta Heffernan

DIRECTOR Liminal Studio


 

Peta is an architect and co-founding director of Liminal Studio, a creatively agile practice that integrates design and architecture with the disciplines interior design, furniture, object design, industrial design, art and production design. Peta believes that the quality of the environment we operate in, its connectedness to place and people, stimulates creativity, impacts on our desire to visit or inhabit those places, as well as our productivity, health and general wellbeing. Peta is passionate about pushing benchmarks and firmly believes that to create new design frontiers, collaboration across broader disciplines drives new thinking and empowers communities.

Speaker Leah Lang

Leah Lang

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT


 

Leah Lang is an experienced Strategic Design Advisor and award-winning registered architect (FRAIA) and recently appointed Queensland Government Architect. In her previous role as City Architect for Australia’s sixth-largest city and the nation’s second-largest Local Government Authority, the Gold Coast. Here, Leah oversaw city-wide design and planning policy and implementation — critical for the region’s sustainable growth and liveability which included supervising components of the final stages of the 2018 Commonwealth Games’ venues.

Speaker Diane Jones

Diane Jones

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PTW


 

Appointed Executive Director in 2014 and Director in 2004, Diane is a registered Architect in New South Wales and Western Australia, Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia; co-convenor of the Court of the Future (research) international network, Marion Mahony Griffin Prize recipient and NAWIC Crystal Vision Merit awardee. In 2016, Diane was appointed to the NSW Retirement Living committee of the Property Council of Australia.

Speaker Ed Johnson

Ed Johnson

DIRECTOR, PLANNING, GROWTH &SUSTAINABILITY Cairns Regional Council


 

Before joining the Cairns Regional Council, Edward Johnson was actively engaged in shaping planning and sustainability development in Queensland. Acting as an Associate Director of Urbis for more than 6 years, Edward had extensive experience across built, social and economic environments. He has been respected for his advocacy for sustainable future.

Speaker Peter Williams

Peter Williams

FOUNDING DIRECTOR Williams Boag Architects


 

Peter graduated from RMIT, registered in 1972 and is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. WBa has been acknowledged with over 40 design awards at the national, state and local government levels. They received the prestigious: RAIA Architecture Medal in 1994, and International recognition in the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities program for its Inkerman Street Oasis Housing Project Stage 1 in 2002.

Speaker Kirsty Volz

Kirsty Volz

LECTURER Queensland University of Technology & CO-FOUNDER Toussaint and Volz


 

Kirsty Volz is the co-founder of design and architecture practice Toussaint and Volz. She has worked for some of Australia’s leading architecture and engineering firms on significant cultural, civic and major infrastructure projects. Her research has been published in several books and international journals on critical histories and theories of architecture. Through both her research and architectural practice, Kirsty is developing new models for housing design and residential architecture in Australia.

Speaker Russell Claus

Russell Claus

URBAN STRATEGIST Livingstone Shire Council


 

Russell Claus works as an Urban Strategist with Livingstone Shire Council where he is developing placemaking and urban design strategies for the region as well as enhancing economic development opportunities. Russell considers himself a city builder/shaper by profession and is passionate about making the world a better place. Previous to his current position, he was the Executive Manager of Regional Development for Rockhampton Regional Council. Before Rockhampton, Russell spent 21 years in the US, including 17 years working for Oklahoma City Council where he was the Director of Planning. During his tenure in Oklahoma City, Russell played a pivotal role in envisioning and facilitating the City’s transformation into a thriving urban centre with one of the most dynamic and admired downtowns in the country. 

Speaker Jennifer Michaelmore

Jennifer Michaelmore

CHIEF EXECUTIVE THI


 

Jennifer is an accomplished urbanist and designer. She’s a big believer in the power of co-creation and collaboration and has played a central role in securing THI’s position as an independent platform for urban professionals and communities to come together. Jennifer has established respectful, long-term relationships within the global urban development sector and has worked across a number of major urban development projects.

Speaker Adrian Iredale

Adrian Iredale

FOUNDING DIRECTOR Iredale Pedersen Hook


 

Over the past twenty-eight years Adrian Iredale has made a significant and sustained contribution to the profession of architecture at state and national levels. His participation in Australian Institute of Architects awards juries, both as a member and chair across Australia, has maintained a high level of critical discourse and clear advocacy for the impact that quality architecture can have in our community. Adrian is a design architect in its purest form, clearly thinking through drawing to translate ideas into clear communication. Educated in Perth, Melbourne (MArch Research, RMIT University) and Frankfurt (Städelschule), Adrian’s experience in practice and lecturing and his extensive travels provide him with a truly global perspective. He has specific experience in urban design, education, aged care, custodial, sport and recreation design, and innovative, low-cost, sustainable housing for both public and private clients. These projects have been highly rewarded and published and continue to set benchmarks for Western Australian housing.

Speaker Don Watson

Don Watson

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR & 2021 Gold Medallist University of Queensland


 

Watson's architectural designs represent some of the finest examples of postmodernism in Queensland. His built work traverses scales, typologies, and public and private commissions. In 1989 Watson joined the Department of Public Works where he worked on several large public projects, many of which have won national awards and commendations. There, Watson designed 11 TAFE buildings throughout South East Queensland. Affectionately dubbed the ‘The Renaissance Man’ by the jury Don was awarded the Gold Medal for 2021. With a career spanning more than 50 years, he is recognized as Queensland’s foremost architectural historian, an activist and advocate for architecture, as well as a protagonist of postmodernist design, with work that traverses scale and type.

Speaker Lindsay and Kerry Clare

Lindsay and Kerry Clare

DIRECTORS Clare Design & Gold Medalists


 

Kerry + Lindsay Clare have been in practice together for more than 35 years. Their work includes a diverse range of architectural projects, from major urban and public buildings to small self-sufficient remote houses. Architecturally, they are consistently acknowledged for a rare combination of design excellence and high-level environmental performance. The RAIA Gold Medal Jury noted that, “Kerry and Lindsay Clare have made an enormous contribution to the advancement of architecture and particularly sustainable architecture, with a strongly held belief that good design and sustainable design are intrinsically linked”. 

Speaker Michael Keniger

Michael Keniger

 

 

Michael Keniger was the University of Queensland’s (UQ) Head of Architecture from 1990 to 2000, Head of the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture from 2000 to 2003 and a member of UQ’s Senior Executive from 2005 to 2011. He is currently chair of the Development and Design Integrity Panel for the Brisbane Airport

CPD

The QLD Regional Symposium provides 6 (six) Formal CPD points.
On the completion of this formal CPD training the attendees will be able to:
• Better understand principles and design processes responsive to the environmental and socio-cultural regional context. • Incorporate regional contextual analysis and relevant environmental and socio-cultural issues into  preliminary research and design consideration. • Evaluate design options against the environmental and cultural context, resilience to natural disasters and climate change. • Recognise the opportunities for regional practitioners to collaborate with communities, planners and  decision-makers to support the ethic, efficiency and quality of architectural practice. • Understanding of the principles of project planning considering the implication for the Country’s  environmental sustainability, and regional communities. • Identify the implications for the Country and develop the strategies for its mitigation using environmentally  and culturally sustainable practices. • Develop and evaluate design options in terms of the heritage, cultural and community values embodied in the site, and in relation to project requirements.
The Learning Outcomes are relevant to the following 2021 NSCA performance criteria: Practice management and professional conduct
PC 2. Implement practice resources and apply ethical employment practice methods and quality assurance systems to facilitate efficient, consistent and timely delivery of architectural services. PC 3. Apply principles of project planning, considering implications for the Country, environmental sustainability, communities, stakeholders, and project costs. PC 16. Be able to apply risk management and mitigation strategies – including safety in design, project risk, the requirement for resilience from the impacts of climate change and appropriate insurances – across architectural services.
Project initiation and conceptual design PC 24. Be able to prepare and analyse project development options in response to a project brief – its objectives, budget, user intent and built purpose, risk, and timeframes, including environmental sustainability considerations. PC 26. Be able to undertake site, cultural and contextual analysis as part of preliminary design research. PC 29. Be able to develop and evaluate design options in terms of the heritage, cultural and community values embodied in the site, and in relation to project requirements. PC 32. Be able to apply planning principles and statutory planning requirements to the site and conceptual design of the project.
Design delivery and construction phase services PC 51. Be able to provide advice to clients on the impact of a selected procurement method on cost, time, life cycle implications and quality control during the construction phase.


The Queensland Formal CPD program partner for 2022 is BlueScope


Price

Early Bird Pricing
Non-Member $449
Member $329
Graduates $279
SONA Students $219

Standard Pricing (after 27092022)
Non-Member $469
Member $349
Graduates $309
SONA Students $239

Sponsor/s

The Queensland Regional symposium is supported by Alspec.


The symposium Friday dinner is supported by Art Processors Pty Ltd



The symposium is supported in-kind by Livingstone Shire Council



Want to partner with us for the 2022 Queensland Regional Symposium? There are still partner opportunities available. Contact us on QLD@architecture.com.au to learn more about these opportunities

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