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The Carbon Landscape Roadshow
Posted 20 07 2018
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Presented by Craig Pocock
Craig Pocock is back in New Zealand for two months and going to be talking at a number of centres about his on-going and award winning research on the carbon landscape. His research covers issues such as the potential carbon cost of urban and landscape design, implementation, management and the disproportionately high carbon cost of urban renewal of public spaces.
Since 2004 when the concepts around the carbon landscape and the potential negative impact of design and management was a significantly less popular idea, Craig has been developing and presenting the idea in Kuala Lumpur, Rio, Montreal, Melbourne, Austin and Wellington to the design industry, material industry and government organisations. The carbon landscape had significant international uptake and has since been published internationally in multiple languages and is required reading and course work in Universities in both the United States and New Zealand.
The research has won a range of awards including the NZILA Sustainability Award of Excellence in 2013. In 2015, Craig was awarded the honour of NZILA fellow for his work on the carbon landscape and for its contribution to the industry. In 2016 he was placed on the IFLA advisory panel to advise on the impact of landscape architecture on climate change.
The timing of this roadshow is particularly relevant at this moment, considering New Zealand’s renewed focus on Climate Change and the recent Carbon Zero Act. Craig will cover subjects such as:
- The carbon impact of landscape and urban design and whether it is possible offset with the carbon costs with the natural environment.
- The carbon footprint of urban design, where the highest values sit within the design, implementation and management stages.
- The role the material industry plays within the carbon landscape.
- How economic tools can be used to reduce the carbon footprint of open space development.
- Carbon mitigation options for public open space management.
- The additional and significant carbon impact of urban renewal and how to avoid this environmental and financial impact.
North Island workshops are to be held in:
- Wellington (view details here)
- New Plymouth (view details here)
- Tauranga (view details here)
- Auckland (view details here)
About Craig Pocock
A fellow of the NZILA, Craig has lived and worked extensively in New Zealand, Australia, Jordan, Palestine, India and the United States. Much of Craig’s work focuses on applying the collective knowledge of traditional and contemporary sustainable practices from the places that he has lived and worked.
He has been involved in teaching at Philadelphia University, Yale University Schools of Architecture and Lincoln University on the subjects of cross-cultural design and sustainability.
In 2016 Craig moved his family out of the post-earthquake Christchurch to San Antonio, Texas where he continues to work as an independent designer. He continues to develop his research on the carbon landscape and write on current issues within the design industry.
