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NZILA
2009 'The Big Picture' Workshop
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Queenstown Held Thursday 2- Saturday 4 April 2009 |
Grahame Sydney and Brian Turner were
guest speakers at the Welcome Function Thursday 2 April 2009
Grahame
Sydney keynote speech here
(note
this is members only area) |
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Sincere thanks to the Conference
Committee, sponsors and delegates who contributed to the immense success of this
Workshop
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Southern branch hosted The Big Picture 2-4 April 2009, a workshop style
conference with the theme of examining large scale landscape change in New Zealand.
Like many
visitor destinations internationally, the growth of the Queenstown Lakes district
has been subject to pressures, forces and demands from outside the district
and often outside New Zealand. Like New Zealand as a whole, visitor activity and
overseas investment (often motivated by the beauty of our landscapes) directly
brings economic activity; we rely upon it for our economic wellbeing and survival.
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Big Picture" Workshop highlights were many, varied and personal.
For many it was Grahame Sydney and Brian Turner's presentation on
the opening night. Grahame's one comment sticks more in mind more than others
"... green will be but one of the colours in the vast palette, not the
only desirable one." - of the Otago landscape how true a word
could be said. The
interpretation of the Workshop is best summarised by those present, opinions,
impressions, feelings and how one was moved by attending is as personal as the
landscape itself. So below is a pictorial essay to leave you to recollect and
reflect again on what was a great occasion. Thanks again Ben Espie, Robin Rawson,
Luke Porter, Helen Mellsop, Michael Steven, Anthony Rewcastle, Marion Read, Rob
Boyd and Jo Dey for making it possible. more
reading: Grahame Sydney keynote speech here
(NB: this is the in the members only area)
Landscape Architecture Magazine Issue #2 (winter 2009 pgs 78-79 |
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field tours were: Landscapes
of recreation: Landscapes of rural living: Landscapes of production:
Landscapes of energy: |
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Landscapes
of recreation: This
tour is to touch on issues such as the economic forces that make this sort of
development viable, how these forces are changing/might change, energy consumption,
the design of these landscapes - deliberately beautiful, the fact that these developments
enable a great many people to appreciate these landscapes that would otherwise
be the case, how do these developments display New Zealand/Otago particularity. |
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Landscapes
of rural living: This
tour touches on issues such as the economic sustainability of farming, the changing
of economic conditions that sometimes mean it is no longer desirable, what people
want when they choose to live in a rural landscape, tenure review of pastoral
leases, how large stations can be sustainably managed into the future with existing/future
economic conditions, etc | | | |
Landscapes
of production: Issues
touched on for this tour include the changing market forces through recent history
that have led to changing productive use of the land and the resultant changing
aesthetics, the part of nostalgia in landscape appreciation - should a landscape
pattern be preserved because we grew up with it? The tour will illustrate how
market forces determine productive land use and ultimately landscape appearance.
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Landscapes
of energy: Issues
brought into this tour is the seemingly endless increase in energy demand and
how this affects the appearance of landscapes, the consequences of flooding for
hydro production - has produced amenities that were previously not there in some
cases, do people perceive these lakes as natural? - often they seem to, does it
matter whether they are natural or not? | 

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Queenstown Lakes District has traditionally been the location of vast farming
stations since colonial times. Changing
economic circumstances have meant that land management practices that we are all
used to growing up with in New Zealand are often no longer desirable to rural
landowners; they
no longer happen by default. Alternative ways of using the land resource are increasingly
being pursued, whether productive or for accommodating residential living. An
increasing national energy demand and privatised energy production has meant that
alternative methods of energy production are appearing in our landscapes.
Again, these do not always accord with the image of these landscapes that we have
grown up with. By
the same token, the lakes created by the Think Big energy projects of the Seventies
are now forming part of the landscape that a generation of New Zealanders are
growing up with and recreating in.
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scale changes to our landscapes can challenge our values, our sense of beauty
and even our own regional identity | The
2009 NZILA workshop conference will explore these issues via site visits and workshop
sessions relating to conflicting interests and pressures associated with managing
large scale landscape change.

Bannockburn sluicings - now
viticultural, previously gold sluicings | | |
434ha
bought for viticulture resort - read
this story courtesy: ODT 6/11/08 | | |
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Tenure Review - Mt
Dewar Station | 
Fruit sculpture |
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| | | | | | 2008
- Auckland 'SHIFT' |
shift
- held
3-6 April 2008, Hyatt Hotel, Auckland | | |
Sincere
thanks to our organisers, sponsors, speakers and delegates who brought you SHIFT.
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Profiles and Proceedings here Referred
Papers - here | | | | |
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and Conference Committee | | | | |
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New Design Practice in the Urban Realm
Currently
at the forefront of the public imagination, landscape is a primary means for answering
the environmental needs of a diverse and evolving society. One
of the features of recent societal change is a major shift
in the landscape potential of our cities. Designers are developing new models
of practice that include site-reprogramming, open systems design and performative
practices that flow with the requirements of rapid urbanization. |
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The
2008 NZILA SHIFT Conference will highlight and discuss these emerging modes
of design practice in the context of the fluid and unpredictable nature of urban
change. A
diverse range of speakers will consider legal and planning implications, contemporary
design initiatives, changing technologies and the challenges of serving the needs
and interests of society as a whole.
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Committee | | | | Name | Organisation | Conference
Role | | | Rod
Barnett | Associate
Professor of Landscape Architecture, Unitec New Zealand | Speakers
and Conference Theme group head | | | Sherry
Berg | Boffa
Miskell | Finance |
| | Michael
Cassidy | Boffa
Miskell | Conference
Chairman | | | Carol
Drinnan | Waitakere
City Council | Conference
Secretary | | | Shonagh
Lindsay | Landscape
Architect/ Communications & Media | Marketing
and Publicity Group Advisor | | | Lance
Millward | LA4
Landscape Architects Ltd | Collateral,
Powhiri & General Group Assistant | | | Heidi
Monks | Heidi
Monks Landscape Architect | Awards
Convenor | | | Sally
Peake | Peake
Design Ltd | Conference
committee member/ sponsorship assistant |
| | Mike
Thomas- | JASMAX
| Sponsorship
group head | | | Paula
Wilkinson | Landscape
Architecture Department, Unitec New Zealand | Speakers
group assistant | | | Jonathan
Wong- | Boffa
Miskell | General
Advice & Assistance | | | Jan
Woodhouse | Woodhouse
Associates Landscape Architects | Advice
& Assistance | |
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held
3-6 April 2008
| Hyatt Hotel | Auckland NZ |
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Speaker Profiles &
Proceedings See within each speaker's profile area for their
proceedings. We will continue to post proceedings as they come to hand, please
revisit.
Brian McGrath Co-founder and principal of Urban-Interface |  |
Brian
McGrath is an architect and a co-founder of Urban Interface, a collaborative urban
design group exploring social and ecological change through multimedia, and the
interrelationship between designed and emergent systems in cities : profile
Conference Proceeding: here |
Chris
Reed Landscape Architect, Principal and Founder of StoSS Landscape Urbanism |  |
| Chris
Reed is founding principal of StoSS landscape urbanism, a Boston-based strategic
design and planning studio : profile |
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Ngarimu Blair
Heritage and urban planner Ngati Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board Tamaki
Makaurau A Cultural Landscape |  |
Ngarimu
Blair is Ngati Whatua o Orakei's spokesperson on heritage and environment. He
is a heritage and urban planner specialising in urban sustainability issues and
has developed plans for harnessing 21st century technology while returning the
dormant values of kaitiakitanga : profile
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Penny
Allan Program Director of Landscape Architecture, Victoria School of Architecture,
Wellington. |  |
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Allan has specialist experience in waterfront design, master planning, urban design,
sustainable development, cultural heritage and interpretation. Current Program
Director of Landscape Architecture at Victoria School of Architecture, she was
formerly Principal of Hassell Pty Ltd, Sydney : profile |
Steven
Tupu Steven Tupu is a New Zealand-born, New York based landscape architect.
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2004 Steven founded terrain-nyc, a landscape architecture practice that focuses
on the design and construction of urban landscape architecture and constructed
ecologies : profile Conference
Proceeding: here
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Mark
Fuller Principal of EDAW Australia |  |
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Fuller is an AILA registered landscape architect and architect with over 25 years
experience. He has been the master planner and design director for a number of
public realm and mixed use and commercial projects in Australia, China, Malaysia
and Indonesia : profile
Conference
Proceeding: here
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Dr
Tony Wong Principal EDAW's studios Melbourne and Sydney |  |
Tony
Wong has over 25 years experience in water resource management in rural and urban
environments, with a recent focus on the water aspects of water cycle management
and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WUSD) : profile |
Jacqueline
Osty Principal l'agence |  |
| Jacqueline
Osty, studied at Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles, graduating
in 1992. She is one of the best known of the current generation of French landscape
architects, and will speak on the competition process and her innovative work
in urban areas : profile Conference
Proceeding: here
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| James
A Lord Surface Design Inc Re-interpreting Landscapes - A Site Specific
and Collaborative Approach |  |
| James
A. Lord received a degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School
of Design and a professional degree in Architecture from the University of Southern
California. James
Lord has extensive experience with large-scale urban design projects, including
several award-winning master plans for Aucklands Waterfront, Long Bay Township
and Highbrook Business Park, in New Zealand; the master plan for the Sydney 2000
Olympic Games as well as the 120-hectare environmental park associated with World
Expo 98 in Lisbon, Portugal : profile
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Papers: The
city densifies while the cracks close on relictual play - here Dr
John Clemens (corresponding author) & Dr Shelley Egoz | Community
engagement : a mutually beneficial shift in landscape design education - here Assoc
Prof Glenn Thomas & Wes Mortensen
| How
landscape architecture can effect a shift in attitude towards Auckland's suburbs
- here Sally
Peake | The
New Zealand Urban Design Protocol and sustainable urban environments - here Yvonne
Weeber |
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| NZILA
Landscape Charter Workshop Sunday 6 April 2008 - 10.00
- 12.00 Facilitator
Brad Coombs - Discussion,
input, reviewing the draft of the Landscape Charter |  |
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Coombs facilitates the 2007 Charter Workshop at the Landscape of Lifestyle Conference |
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2007
- Hawkes Bay 'The Landscape of Lifestyle' |
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LANDSCAPE OF LIFESTYLE NZILA
CONFERENCE HAWKE'S BAY 12 - 14 APRIL 2007 Visit
Members Only | Members Services Page for proceedings |
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Wine
Country. The brand
that is Hawke's Bay. Formerly "Sunny Hawke's Bay" then "The Fruitbowl
of NZ". Both brands were swept away by a decisive, simple, appealing and
insightful slogan that encapsulates the emotion of the product and conjures up
images of the landscape that produces it. 
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'major
sponsor'
But Wine Country
is also a landscape of many lifestyles. Just as the agricultural lifestyle and
horticultural lifestyle have made their mark on the landscape, so have viticulture
and rural/residential subdivision, or "lifestyle blocks". The brand
"Wine Country" depends not only on the "Wine" but also the
"Country". With tourism a growth industry, along with net migration
to the region, maintaining the country to meet the image of the brand is important. This
conference will explore the landscape of lifestyle, the impact that the pursuit
of lifestyle is having on the landscape and how the Wine Country brand builds
on and depends on this landscape. A
diverse range of speakers will discuss relevant demographic trends, planning and
resource management implications, contemporary "lifestyle subdivision"
design and development, best practice landscape assessment and photomontage techniques,
and more. For
those focused on business, the parallel for professional practitioners will be
explored, which is identifying their strengths and subsequent market niche, and
how their brand reflects their landscape values. The
conference will also provide an opportunity to discuss and fine-tune the Draft
NZILA Landscape Charter, possibly the most significant document the Institute
has prepared since the drafting of the NZILA Statement of Philosophy. A
distinctly informal lifestyle is envisaged for the duration of the conference
- the venue is a marquee in a vineyard, footwear will be optional, the social
schedule will be demanding and the weather in Wine Country can be relied on to
be great. Look
forward to seeing you there, and to saying cheers. |
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supported by: | |
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2006
- Joint AILA/NZILA 'TIME' Sydney, Australia |  |
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| Thank
you to all delegates who attended who ensured the TIME
conference
was a great success. Sincere thanks to our colleagues at the AILA for their generosity
and warm hospitality. We look forward to seeing you all again sometime in the
future. The
book is available for purchase Download
the order form here | Individual
papers also available online | TIME The
New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) in partnership with the
Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and the Eastern Region of
the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) wish to invite all
professionals involved with the built environment to this international landscape
architecture conference. The
conference will explore the effects of TIME
through three sub-themes: TIME
as Catalyst Designing with TIME
TIMEand
Technology
The conference will open with a public lecture on Thursday 25th May 2006 followed
by a cocktail reception. This will be followed by the two day (26th & 27th
May) conference held within the Darling Harbour Conference Centre finishing late
Saturday afternoon.
Above
details subject to change over TIME
For updates
and more information see: http://www.aila.org.au/time
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2005 Dunedin
'Looking Forward to Heritage Landscapes' |
NZILA
"Looking
forward to HERITAGE
LANDSCAPES" 2005 Conference
click here
NEW! speaker
abstracts available + order a CD of full proceedings
click
here
NZILA ECOPOLIS - Vision and Means 2004 Conference
click
here
EDS
Partnered Conference, The
New Zealand Coastal Conference |
2004 EDS
Partnered Conference, Reclaiming
our Heritage
| 2003
NZILA
Urbanism downunder 2003 click
here | |
"Looking
forward to 28,
29 & 30 April 2005 Dunedin, New Zealand |
HERITAGE
LANDSCAPES" Conference
| Kia
Ora, Welcome: On behalf of the Southern Branch of the New
Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA), I am pleased to invite
you to participate in the NZILA's 2005 conference Looking
Forward to HERITAGE LANDSCAPES to be held in Dunedin, 28-30 April.
The conference is being held within a significant heritage area, the University
of Otago (the country's first university, established in 1869). I
believe the conference organising committee has prepared a programme that will
involve speakers who are both dynamic and thought-provoking. The line-up of speakers
represents the full spectrum of individuals and organisations that are involved
with the recognition, protection and identification of heritage landscapes in
New Zealand. Finally the organising committee has worked hard to create
a conference that will not only be stimulating and challenging but will also be
memorable to all those who attend. Your attendance will be our reward.
Alan Petrie Convenor, Organising Committee
| Sponsors
The Conference Organising Committee acknowledges and thanks our sponsors for their
generous contribution to this conference. Their support has enabled us to provide
a comprehensive programme of quality content and excellent value for all participants.
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Conference Themes:
- What
do we mean by 'Heritage Landscapes'?
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Strategies for living with and in Heritage Landscapes
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Specific engagements of Heritage Landscapes with an emphasis on local examples,
resources and responses
This
conference will appeal to a wide range of organizations and individuals, including
representatives of local, regional and national government agencies, iwi / hapu,
community groups, heritage organisations, professionals including landscape architects,
urban and resource planners, heritage managers and academics including anthropologists,
geographers, designers, educators and historians.
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PROGRAMME The
programme featured a line up of key-note speakers representing a spectrum of organisations
involved in the recognition, protection, interpretation and management of heritage
landscapes in New Zealand. This included several leading international speakers
invited to stimulate our thinking and give an international perspective to the
discussion.
CONFERENCE
ABSTRACTS AND PROCEEDINGS NOW AVAILABLE The
2005 Conference Proceedings have been produced as:
CDRom - ISBN 0-476-01601-0 ($40+ $5pp) and soft cover paperback book - ISBN
0-476-0160120 ($120+ $10pp) Please email info@nzila.co.nz
if you wish to purchase either publication. CONFERENCE
SPEAKERS PLENARY
SESSIONS Professor Dame Anne Salmond: Ancestors in the land:
New Zealand's heritage landscapes Hon David Benson Pope: Looking forward
to heritage landscapes Environment Judge Shonagh Kenderdine: Heritage
landscapes: developing legislative frameworks which allow for protection and change
Geoff Park: Germinal ground - the landscapes of landfall Ian Smith:
The coasts of Southern New Zealand as heritage landscapes Mick Abbott:
Designing heritage: back and forward across the coastal Otago landscape Tim
Heath: Two local case studies at Taiaroa Head and Curio Bay Khyla Russell:
Landscape: perceptions of Kai Tahu I Mua, Äianei, A Muri Ake Janet
Stephenson: Values in space and time: towards an integrated understanding
of values in landscapes Jeremy Salmond: Urban leftovers - heritage
carparks and other cultural landscapes Professor Geoff Kearsley: Heritage
Landscapes and Tourism Di Lucas: Taking up the challenge URBAN
HERITAGE LANDSCAPES Bridgit Diprose: Uncovering hidden stories
within urban heritage landscapes Bruce Petry, John Adam and Miriam Stacy:
Overview thematic history of Christchurch: three perspectives on the landscape
Chris Williams: Heritage and urban trees the biological and political needs
Jenny Moore: Just because its old is it heritage? A review of the Christchurch
Botanic Gardens POSITIONING
HERITAGE LANDSCAPES IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF CHANGING COMMUNITIES AND ATTITUDES.
Roland Foster and Harvey C Perkins: Intellectual Perspectives on the Authentic
Bach: Reinterpreting Taylors Mistake Dr Shelley Egoz and Tara Sieber:
"It isn't a village anymore" - The disappearing rural heritage of New
Zealand Niall Simspon: Round peg in a square hole...or how do you fit
centre pivots into a colonial farming pattern language John P. Adam:
Endangered gardens. saving the past for the future CONTEMPORARY
HERITAGE LANDSCAPES CASE STUDIES Richard W Hart: "The
Elms" garden heritage management plan Lisa Grainger: Capturing
the essence of our landscape: lessons from the Emerald Isle Deborah Purss:
Heritage landscapes - community ownership and sense of place - A Case Study. Kyla
Park - Tuross Head, South Coast New South Wales, Australia Maria Ignatieva:
Case study: heritage landscapes in St.Petersburg, Russia: past and present MODELLING
HERITAGE LANDSCAPES: ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES Eugenie
Ombler: Photographs tell stories and they also ask questions Rachel
de Lambert, Bruce Petry and Sue Parsons: Character / heritage overlays as
a tool to guide the future of traditional town centre 'landscapes' Craig
Batchelar and Te Pio Kawe: Nga Taonga Tuku Iho - taking a big picture view
of heritage landscapes Lars Brabyn: Characterising the natural component
of our heritage landscapes EXPLORING
HERITAGE LANDSCAPES: INVESTIGATIONS INTO ITS MEANING AND APPLICATION
Phil Wihongi and Lucy Tukua: Taonga tuku iho - treasures of the ancestors,
gifts for the future Wendy Hoddinott: Passing time: a phenomenological
approach to heritage design Joan Ropiha: Writing about whenua: my journey
home to Ngai Tu Ki Mahanga and the Whenua Ki Mahanga Robin Simpson and
Maxe Fisher: Industrialised landscapes; a new beauty, an unclaimed heritage* PREVIOUS
ENGAGEMENTS: THE ROLE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN PAST
MAKINGS OF HERITAGE Jenny Batty: The influence of
late 18th to early 19th century landscape theory on Felton Mathew's 1842 proposed
plan of Auckland Sue Wake: Patriotism and play: examples of early 20th
century design of parks for children Matthew Bradbury and Matt Woodside:
Harry Turbott, landscape modernist. Paula Wilkinson: Mary Buckland
profiled: the construction of the New Zealand landscape
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Links
NZILA:
www.nzila.co.nz City
of Dunedin: www.cityofdunedin.com University
of Otago: www.otago.ac.nz New
Zealand Historic Places Trust: www.historic.org.nz/index.html |
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Christchurch 'Ecopolis' | |
ECOPOLIS
- Vision and Means 2004 Conference Hotel
Grand Chancellor, Christchurch 4-6 April 2004 Click
here for abstracts
of speaker papers. Click
here for full copies of the
2004 Ecopolis Conference papers. NB:
You must be an NZILA member to have access to the members only area where
these papers are posted. If you cannot remember your userid/password email
the webmaster; or click here to find out more about
joining the NZILA. images
from the Ecopolis conference, rollover image for caption |
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explored the complexities of our urban future and addressed its social, environmental
and economic dimensions. Delegates were exposed to leading urban planning and
design advocates who: - Provided
contextual frameworks to current issues.
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Explored visions for the future.
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Shared lessons from completed works or works in progress.
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Debated issues to be addressed.
1.
click here to download
programme 2. click here
to download speaker profiles | | |
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New Zealand Coastal Conference Development and Conservation of our Coasts
and Lakesides August 6 & 7 2004, Waipuna Conference Centre, Auckland
Hosted by the Environmental
Defence Society, in association with strategic partners the New Zealand
Institute of Landscape Architects and New Zealand Coastal Society.
This event follows on from last year's successful Landscape Conference, co-hosted
by EDS and NZILA . This
conference was all about 'raising the bar' for coastal and lakeside development.
Speakers geared up for some dynamic sessions on best practice for these special
areas, ensuring sound, quality outcomes. The line-up included John Darby, Principal
of Darby Partners in Queenstown, James Lunday from Auckland's Common Ground Ltd,
NZILA's Simon Smale and and an interview with Bluewater Holding's Peter Cooper.
The Honorable John Tamihere joined us from Parliament, as did the Honorable Chris
Carter, Minister for Conservation and Dr Morgan Williams, Parliamentary Commissioner
for the Environment. We
brought together resource management professionals from a broad range of backgrounds;
landscape architects, lawyers, planners, coastal specialists and engineers, local,
regional and central government, Maori, environmentalists and conservationists,
real estate professionals and developers. Anyone with a special interest in the
New Zealand coast was able to appreciate this conference and what it was trying
to achieve. Click
here
for Proceedings of the New Zealand Coastal Conference Visit the EDS
website for more information |
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| Reclaiming
our Heritage
: New Zealand Landscape 2003 Conference
From
the successful 'New Zealand Landscape Conference: Reclaiming
our Heritage' jointly hosted by The Environmental
Defence Society (EDS) and NZILA in Takapuna
in July 2003, EDS have now published the proceedings. Click here
for more information
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Reclaiming
our Heritage - RURAL
LANDSCAPE PROTECTION POST-CONFERENCE
WORKSHOPS - This
workshop arises from the
successful 'New
Zealand Landscape Conference: Reclaiming our Heritage' jointly hosted by
The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) and NZILA in Takapuna in July 2003 |
| Christchurch
Workshop: click
here
for report on the "NZILA Landscape Protection Workshop" held
7 April 2004 | |
Waikato "The Changing Scene" Workshop
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Please visit again soon, report on the landscape management workshop to be posted
here | | |

Photo courtesy of Environment
Waikato click here for larger image
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| | Urbanism
downunder 2003 
Transforming Cities in Australia
and New Zealand Sky City Conference Centre, Auckland, New
Zealand - March 2003 The
NZILA collaborated with Urbanism downunder 2003 as their 2003 Annual Conference,
emphasising the contribution of their membership to creating exciting urban environments
and robust public spaces. Marian
Hobbs, Minister for the Environment - keynote speech:
"This
is a remarkable congress because it's a first for New Zealand. You've brought
together all the professions involved in creating good urban areas planning,
architecture and landscape architecture, urban design, developers. And of course
we're all residents so we know what we like and hate. Your
organising committee has involved local government, private practice and academia
in producing a stimulating programme. No
one profession can create quality urban areas...."
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read entire speech | | |
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