Insight to Impact: Rethinking City Resilience
ON-DEMAND CPD: Four on-demand recordings offering a total of 4 formal CPD points
Overview
This CPD bundle brings together live recordings from Insight to Impact: Rethinking City Resilience.
These four sessions build on the momentum of the Future Shock: Designing City Resilience program (February 2024), expanding into a multi-disciplinary CPD bundle that convenes leading practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to forge actionable strategies for designing stronger, safer, and more adaptable urban futures. Through a dynamic mix of panels, case studies, and a collaborative session, the bundle will explore integrated approaches that unite architecture, landscape, planning, and engineering-advancing holistic solutions for urban resilience.
At its core, the sessions position resilience as a cross-disciplinary imperative, applied across spatial scales: from regional frameworks and city-wide systems to neighbourhood planning, precinct design, building architecture, and the public realm. Key themes will spotlight the core dimensions of a resilient city, including climate responsive architecture, risk-responsive planning and infrastructure, collaborative governance, economic stability, environmental stewardship, and socio-cultural vitality. From cutting age initiative to innovative responses in Australian communities, this event showcases how co-design can be a transformative force for resilience, sustainability, and liveability.
This CPD includes the following presentations:
City Resilience Imperative: A collective call for action
This session explores the urgent imperative for urban resilience as a shared mission across sectors, disciplines, and communities. What can accelerate action—especially in the face of climate, economic, and social shocks? Presented by Barbara Norman (Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Canberra University and Hon Professor at ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions).
Practising Resilient Design in a Changing World
In a world of accelerating change, cities must evolve from static systems into adaptive ecosystems—capable of responding to shifting population needs, climate extremes, and economic disruptions. Through reflective analysis of case studies, the speakers in this session will explore the innovative global and local examples of urban resilience in response to climate, community, and economic challenges. Speakers include Shy Tay FRAIA (Urban Design Market Leader, Aviation Business Leader – Cities, Planning and Design Queensland, Arup), Steve Dredge (Director, Meridian Urban), Damian Madigan FRAIA (Associate Professor of Architecture UNISA Creative), and Sam Bowstead RAIA (Director at The Resilient Home Fund, Queensland Government).
Navigating Complexity through Collaborative Governance and Integrated Design
This session explores how urban environments can be reimagined to respond to shifting demands for jobs, housing, liveable spaces, and recreation, while maintaining resilience in the face of climate, economic, and social pressures. Speakers include Jade Bebbington Assc. RAIA, Malcolm Smith RAIA (Arup's Australasian Cities Leader and the Founding Director af Arup London's Integrated City Planning (ICP) Unit), and Emma Maratea (Director for Community and Place, Rhelm).
Cool Cities: Designing city resilience in a warming world
This session examines practical design strategies that reduce urban heat, enhance comfort and equity, and strengthen social and ecological resilience—utilizing real-world examples that illustrate the application of thoughtful planning and interdisciplinary design across different spatial scales. Speakers include Liza Neil LFRAIA (Building and Facilities Design Coordinator, City of Moreton Bay), Sebastian Pfautsch (Professor of Urban Management and Planning; President of Australasian Green Infrastructure Network (AGIN)), and Martin O’Dea (Principal Landscape Architect, Clouston).
Learning Outcomes
At the end of these sessions, participants should be able to:
- Better understand how cities can purposefully plan, design and build for resilience through integrated thinking across architecture, landscape, planning and engineering.
- Recognise the role of collaborative governance and integrated planning in shaping adaptable, future-ready cities.
- Apply principles of climate-responsive, adaptive, inclusive, and sustainable design to project planning and delivery.
- Critically evaluate and implement context-specific mitigation and adaptation strategies across diverse urban scales.
- Identify opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration and community engagement in advancing climate-adaptive and inclusive design solutions.
- Integrate climate adaptation, risk-responsive planning, and nature-based solutions into professional design practice.
- Promote integrated design approaches that reflect local context, cultural heritage and community needs.
- Understand how cities can adapt to rising temperatures through climate-adaptive planning and design, cooler building and streetscapes, green infrastructure, water-sensitive design, and material innovation.
- Coordinate the implication of integrated design strategies to mitigate urban heat, improve thermal comfort, and enhance public health and well-being.
- Analyse the innovative global and local examples of city design in response to climate, community, and economic challenges.
NSCA 2021 Performance Criteria
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
- PC3: Apply principles of project planning, considering implications for Country, environmental sustainability, communities, stakeholders and project costs.
- PC9: Be able to apply contemporary and emerging building procurement methods. This involves identifying the most appropriate form of delivery for a project, including risks, mitigation and adaptation strategies, and integrating appropriate construction contracts and consultancy contracts and/or agreements.
- PC16: Be able to apply risk management and mitigation strategies – including safety in design, project risk, requirement for resilience from the impacts of climate change and appropriate insurances – across architectural services.
PROJECT INITIATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
- PC26: Be able to undertake site, cultural and contextual analysis as part of preliminary design research.
- PC28: Be able to draw on knowledge from building sciences and technology, environmental sciences and behavioural and social sciences as part of preliminary design research and when developing the conceptual design to optimise the performance of the project.
- PC30: Be able to explore options for sitting a project, integrating information and analysis of relevant cultural, social and economic factors.
- PC32: Be able to apply planning principles and statutory planning requirements to the site and conceptual design of the project.
- PC33: Be able to investigate, coordinate and integrate sustainable environmental systems – including water, thermal, lighting and acoustics – in response to consultants’ advice.
DETAILED DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION
- PC36: Be able to apply creative imagination, design precedents, emergent knowledge, critical evaluation and continued engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to produce a coherent project design. This should be resolved in terms of supporting health and wellbeing outcomes for Country, site planning, formal composition, spatial planning and circulation as appropriate to the project brief and all other factors affecting the project.
Price
Members: $316
Non-members: $596
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